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This paper tackles two problems that fall under the study of coding for insertions and deletions. These problems are motivated by several applications, among them is reconstructing strands in DNA-based storage systems. Under this paradigm,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Omer Sabary , Daniella Bar-Lev , Yotam Gershon , Alexander Yucovich , Eitan Yaakobi

Binary message-passing decoders for low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes are studied by using extrinsic information transfer (EXIT) charts. The channel delivers hard or soft decisions and the variable node decoder performs all computations…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Gottfried Lechner , Troels Pedersen , Gerhard Kramer

In this paper, we propose a practical adaptive coding modulation scheme to approach the capacity of free-space optical (FSO) channels with intensity modulation/direct detection based on probabilistic shaping. The encoder efficiently adapts…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Ahmed Elzanaty , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

In this work, the problem of transmitting an i.i.d Gaussian source over an i.i.d Gaussian wiretap channel with an i.i.d Gaussian side information is considered. The intended receiver is assumed to have a certain minimum SNR and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-08-03 Ghadamali Bagherikaram , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

This paper addresses optimal decoding strategies in lossy compression where the assumed distribution for compressor design mismatches the actual (true) distribution of the source. This problem has immediate relevance in standardized…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Saeed R. Khosravirad , Ahmed Alkhateeb , Ingrid van de Voorde

Coded modulation with probabilistic amplitude shaping (PAS) is considered for intensity modulation/direct detection channels with a transmitter peak-power constraint. PAS is used to map bits to a uniform PAM-6 distribution and outperforms…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Tobias Prinz , Thomas Wiegart , Daniel Plabst , Stefano Calabrò , Georg Böcherer , Nebojsa Stojanovic , Talha Rahman

Autoencoders are a popular model in many branches of machine learning and lossy data compression. However, their fundamental limits, the performance of gradient methods and the features learnt during optimization remain poorly understood,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Alexander Shevchenko , Kevin Kögler , Hamed Hassani , Marco Mondelli

We consider probabilistic shaping to maximize the achievable information rate of coded modulation (CM) with hard decision decoding. The proposed scheme using binary staircase codes outperforms its uniform CM counterpart by more than 1.3 dB…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-08 Alireza Sheikh , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Gianluigi Liva

This paper studies second-order coding rates for memoryless channels with a state sequence known non-causally at the encoder. In the case of finite alphabets, an achievability result is obtained using constant-composition random coding, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-13 Jonathan Scarlett

An additive noise channel is considered, in which the distribution of the noise is nonparametric and unknown. The problem of learning encoders and decoders based on noise samples is considered. For uncoded communication systems, the problem…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Nir Weinberger

Inverse probability problems whose generative models are given by strictly nonlinear Gaussian random fields show the all-or-nothing behavior: There exists a critical rate at which Bayesian inference exhibits a phase transition. Below this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Ali Bereyhi , Bruno Loureiro , Florent Krzakala , Ralf R. Müller , Hermann Schulz-Baldes

We develop a framework for linear-programming (LP) decoding of non-binary linear codes over rings. We prove that the resulting LP decoder has the `maximum likelihood certificate' property, and we show that the decoder output is the lowest…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-10-10 Mark F. Flanagan , Vitaly Skachek , Eimear Byrne , Marcus Greferath

This paper studies the performance of block coding on an additive white Gaussian noise channel under different power limitations at the transmitter. Lower bounds are presented for the minimum error probability of codes satisfying maximal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Gonzalo Vazquez-Vilar

For information transmission a binary symmetric channel is used. There is also another noisy binary symmetric channel (feedback channel), and the transmitter observes without delay all the outputs of the forward channel via that feedback…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-11-10 M. V. Burnashev , H. Yamamoto

Channel uncertainty and co-channel interference are two major challenges in the design of wireless systems such as future generation cellular networks. This paper studies receiver design for a wireless channel model with both time-varying…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-10-15 Yan Zhu , Dongning Guo , Michael L. Honig

We establish lower and upper bounds for the identification capacity of discrete-time Gaussian channels subject to inter-symbol interference (ISI), a canonical model in wireless communication. Our analysis accounts for deterministic encoders…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Mohammad Javad Salariseddigh , Christian Deppe

In this paper, we propose a lattice-based robust distributed source coding system for two correlated sources and provide a detailed performance analysis under the high resolution assumption. It is shown, among other things, that, in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Dania Elzouki , Sorina Dumitrescu , Jun Chen

Except for a few simple digital modulation techniques, derivation of average bit error probability over fading channels is difficult and is an involved process. In this letter, curve fitting technique has been employed to express bit error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-02 Sanjay Singh , M. Sathish Kumar , H. S. Mruthyunjaya

In this paper, a rate adaptive geometric constellation shaping (GCS) scheme which is fully backward-compatible with existing state of the art bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM) systems is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-14 Metodi Plamenov Yankov , Smaranika Swain , Ognjen Jovanovic , Darko Zibar , Francesco Da Ros

We consider a decoder with an erasure option and a variable size list decoder for channels with non-casual side information at the transmitter. First, universally achievable error exponents are offered for decoding with an erasure option…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-03-13 Erez Sabbag , Neri Merhav