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We study the problem of generating an approximately i.i.d. string at the output of a discrete memoryless channel using a limited amount of randomness at its input in presence of causal noiseless feedback. Feedback does not decrease the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-29 Mani Bastani Parizi , Emre Telatar

A concatenated coding scheme over binary memoryless symmetric (BMS) channels using a polarization transformation followed by outer sub-codes is analyzed. Achievable error exponents and upper bounds on the error rate are derived. The first…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Dina Goldin , David Burshtein

A unified framework to obtain all known lower bounds (random coding, typical random coding and expurgated bound) on the reliability function of a point-to-point discrete memoryless channel (DMC) is presented. By using a similar idea for a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-10-08 Ali Nazari , Achilleas Anastasopoulos , S. Sandeep Pradhan

We study the problem of universal decoding for unknown discrete memoryless channels in the presence of erasure/list option at the decoder, in the random coding regime. Specifically, we harness a universal version of Forney's classical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-23 Wasim Huleihel , Nir Weinberger , Neri Merhav

An adaptive joint source-channel coding (JSCC) scheme is presented for transmitting correlated sources over discrete-memoryless two-way channels subject to distortion constraints. The proposed JSCC scheme makes use of the previously…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Jian-Jia Weng , Fady Alajaji , Tamás Linder

In this paper, we are interested in the performance of a variable-length stop-feedback (VLSF) code with $m$ optimal decoding times for the binary-input additive white Gaussian noise channel. We first develop tight approximations on the tail…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Hengjie Yang , Recep Can Yavas , Victoria Kostina , Richard D. Wesel

We derive bounds on the asymptotic density of parity-check matrices and the achievable rates of binary linear block codes transmitted over memoryless binary-input output-symmetric (MBIOS) channels. The lower bounds on the density of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Gil Wiechman , Igal Sason

We study near optimal error correction codes for real-time communication. In our setup the encoder must operate on an incoming source stream in a sequential manner, and the decoder must reconstruct each source packet within a fixed playback…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-16 Ahmed Badr , Ashish Khisti , Wai-Tian Tan , John Apostolopoulos

We introduce Variational Joint Embedding (VJE), a reconstruction-free latent-variable framework for non-contrastive self-supervised learning in representation space. VJE maximizes a symmetric conditional evidence lower bound (ELBO) on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Amin Oji , Paul Fieguth

This work is motivated by the problem of error correction in bit-shift channels with the so-called $ (d,k) $ input constraints (where successive $ 1 $'s are required to be separated by at least $ d $ and at most $ k $ zeros, $ 0 \leq d < k…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Mladen Kovačević

Homophonic coding is a framework to reversibly convert a message into a sequence with some target distribution. This is a promising tool to generate a codeword with a biased code-symbol distribution, which is required for capacity-achieving…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-26 Junya Honda , Hirosuke Yamamoto

We examine codes, over the additive Gaussian noise channel, designed for reliable communication at some specific signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and constrained by the permitted minimum mean-square error (MMSE) at lower SNRs. The maximum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-10 Ronit Bustin , Shlomo Shamai

This paper explores the design of convolutional codes for varying constraint lengths, focusing on their role in error correction in digital communication systems. Convolutional codes are essential in achieving reliable data transmission…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Parag Dhounde , Avinash Bhute

The problem of coding for networks experiencing worst-case symbol errors is considered. We argue that this is a reasonable model for highly dynamic wireless network transmissions. We demonstrate that in this setup prior network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-13 Qiwen Wang , Sidharth Jaggi

Deep Joint Source-Channel Coding (Deep-JSCC) has emerged as a promising semantic communication approach for wireless image transmission by jointly optimizing source and channel coding using deep learning techniques. However, traditional…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Avi Deb Raha , Apurba Adhikary , Mrityunjoy Gain , Yumin Park , Walid Saad , Choong Seon Hong

In this paper, communication of a Multivariate Gaussian over a Gaussian Multiple Access Channel is studied. Distributed zero-delay joint source-channel coding (JSCC) solutions to the problem are given. Both nonlinear and linear approaches…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-14 Pål Anders Floor , Anna N. Kim , Tor A. Ramstad , Ilangko Balasingham , Niklas Wernersson , Mikael Skoglund

Recent advances in deep learning (DL)-based joint source-channel coding (JSCC) have enabled efficient semantic communication in dynamic wireless environments. Among these approaches, vector quantization (VQ)-based JSCC effectively maps…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-17 Eunsoo Kim , Yoon Huh , Wan Choi

In this work, we study the problem of distributed mean estimation with $1$-bit communication constraints when the variance is unknown. We focus on the specific case where each user has access to one i.i.d. sample drawn from a distribution…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Ritesh Kumar , Shashank Vatedka

The problem of lossless fixed-rate streaming coding of discrete memoryless sources with side information at the decoder is studied. A random time-varying tree-code is used to sequentially bin strings and a Stack Algorithm with a variable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Hari Palaiyanur , Anant Sahai

In this paper, we propose an iterative source error correction (ISEC) decoding scheme for deep-learning-based joint source-channel coding (Deep JSCC). Given a noisy codeword received through the channel, we use a Deep JSCC encoder and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Changwoo Lee , Xiao Hu , Hun-Seok Kim