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In this paper, we study the three-node Decode-and-Forward (D&F) relay network subject to random and burst packet erasures. The source wishes to transmit an infinite stream of packets to the destination via the relay. The three-node D&F…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Shubhransh Singhvi , Gayathri R. , P. Vijay Kumar

The Gilbert-Elliot (GE) channel is a commonly-accepted model for packet erasures in networks. Streaming codes are a class of packet-level erasure codes designed to provide reliable communication over the GE channel. The design of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Myna Vajha , Vinayak Ramkumar , Mayank Jhamtani , P. Vijay Kumar

Streaming codes are a class of packet-level erasure codes that are designed with the goal of ensuring recovery in low-latency fashion, of erased packets over a communication network. It is well-known in the streaming code literature, that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Vinayak Ramkumar , Myna Vajha , P. Vijay Kumar

Streaming codes represent a packet-level FEC scheme for achieving reliable, low-latency communication. In the literature on streaming codes, the commonly-assumed Gilbert-Elliott channel model, is replaced by a more tractable,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Vinayak Ramkumar , Myna Vajha , P. Vijay Kumar

Many emerging multimedia streaming applications involve multiple users communicating under strict latency constraints. In this paper we study streaming codes for a network involving two source nodes, one relay node and a destination node.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Gustavo Kasper Facenda , Elad Domanovitz , Ashish Khisti , Wai-Tian Tan , John Apostolopoulos

We study segmented burst-deletion channels motivated by the observation that synchronization errors commonly occur in a bursty manner in real-world settings. In this channel model, transmitted sequences are implicitly divided into…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Yajuan Liu , Tolga M. Duman

In this paper, we investigate the optimal tradeoff between source and channel coding for channels with bit or packet erasure. Upper and Lower bounds on the optimal channel coding rate are computed to achieve minimal end-to-end distortion.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Sriram N. Kizhakkemadam , Panos Papamichalis , Mandyam Srinath , Dinesh Rajan

We study optimal reconstruction codes over the multiple-burst substitution channel. Our main contribution is establishing a trade-off between the error-correction capability of the code, the number of reads used in the reconstruction…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Wenjun Yu , Yubo Sun , Zixiang Xu , Gennian Ge , Moshe Schwartz

This paper investigates adaptive streaming codes over a three-node relayed network. In this setting, a source node transmits a sequence of message packets to a destination through a relay. The source-to-relay and relay-to-destination links…

Motivated by DNA storage systems and 3D fingerprinting, this work studies the adversarial torn paper channel with edit errors. This channel first applies at most $t_e$ edit errors (i.e., insertions, deletions, and substitutions) to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Maria Abu-Sini , Reinhard Heckel

For a packet erasure broadcast channel with three receivers, we propose a new coding algorithm that makes use of feedback to dynamically adapt the code. Our algorithm is throughput optimal, and we conjecture that it also achieves an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-09-29 Jay Kumar Sundararajan , Devavrat Shah , Muriel Médard

We study sequential coding of Markov sources under an error propagation constraint. An encoder sequentially compresses a sequence of vector-sources that are spatially i.i.d. but temporally correlated according to a first-order Markov…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-24 Farrokh Etezadi , Ashish Khisti , Mitchell Trott

Random Linear Streaming Codes (RLSCs) can dramatically reduce the queuing delay of block codes in real-time services. In this paper, we aim to explore the fundamental limit of large-field-size RLSCs in stochastic symbol erasure channels…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Kai Huang , Wenjie Guan , Xiaoran Wang , Jinbei Zhang , Kechao Cai

Consider the asymmetric broadcast channel with a random superposition codebook, which may be comprised of constant composition or \iid codewords. By applying Forney's optimal decoder for individual messages and the message pair for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Daming Cao , Vincent Y. F. Tan

This paper investigates the construction of linear network codes for broadcasting a set of data packets to a number of users. The links from the source to the users are modeled as independent erasure channels. Users are allowed to inform…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-10 Chi Wan Sung , Linyu Huang , Ho Yuet Kwan , Kenneth W. Shum

As the mobile application landscape expands, wireless networks are tasked with supporting different connection profiles, including real-time traffic and delay-sensitive communications. Among many ensuing engineering challenges is the need…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-31 Fatemeh Hamidi-Sepehr , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Henry D. Pfister

As sensing and instrumentation play an increasingly important role in systems controlled over wired and wireless networks, the need to better understand delay-sensitive communication becomes a prime issue. Along these lines, this article…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Parimal Parag , Richard D. Wesel

Characterization of the delay profile of systems employing random linear network coding is important for the reliable provision of broadcast services. Previous studies focused on network coding over large finite fields or developed Markov…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Ioannis Chatzigeorgiou , Andrea Tassi

We study the channel coding problem when errors and uncertainty occur in the encoding process. For simplicity we assume the channel between the encoder and the decoder is perfect. Focusing on linear block codes, we model the encoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-17 Jad Hachem , I-Hsiang Wang , Christina Fragouli , Suhas Diggavi

Motivated by streaming applications with stringent delay constraints, we consider the design of online network coding algorithms with timely delivery guarantees. Assuming that the sender is providing the same data to multiple receivers over…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Joao Barros , Rui A. Costa , Daniele Munaretto , Joerg Widmer