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The belief propagation (BP) based algorithm is investigated as a potential decoder for both of error correcting codes and lossy compression, which are based on non-monotonic tree-like multilayer perceptron encoders. We discuss that whether…

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We study the communication over Finite State Channels (FSCs), where the encoder and the decoder can control the availability or the quality of the noise-free feedback. Specifically, the instantaneous feedback is a function of an action…

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The lists of bits processed in quantum key distribution are necessarily of finite length. The need for finite-key unconditional security bounds has been recognized long ago, but the theoretical tools have become available only very…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Raymond Y. Q. Cai , Valerio Scarani

With the expected proliferation of delay constrained applications, future communication technologies are pushed towards using short codes. The performance using short codes cannot be inferred through classical channel capacity analysis,…

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In this paper, we investigate the problem of recovering source information from an incomplete set of network coded data. We first study the theoretical performance of such systems under maximum a posteriori (MAP) decoding and derive the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-16 Eirina Bourtsoulatze , Nikolaos Thomos , Pascal Frossard

A coding scheme for transmission of a bit maps a given bit to a sequence of channel inputs (called the codeword associated to the transmitted bit). In this paper, we study the problem of designing the best code for a discrete Poisson…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Niloufar Ahmadypour , Amin Gohari

Reliability is an important tool for evaluating the performance of modern networks. Currently, it is NP-hard and #P-hard to calculate the exact reliability of a binary-state network when the reliability of each component is assumed to be…

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In this paper, we study the coding delay and the average coding delay of random linear network codes (dense codes) over line networks with deterministic regular and Poisson transmission schedules. We consider both lossless networks and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-03 Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Amir H. Banihashemi

Polar codes are a family of capacity-achieving codes that have explicit and low-complexity construction, encoding, and decoding algorithms. Decoding of polar codes is based on the successive-cancellation decoder, which decodes in a bit-…

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This paper investigates variable-length stop-feedback codes for memoryless channels in point-to-point, multiple access, and random access communication scenarios. The proposed codes employ $L$ decoding times $n_1, n_2, \dots, n_L$ for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Recep Can Yavas , Victoria Kostina , Michelle Effros

Polar codes are the first provable capacity-achieving forward error correction (FEC) codes. In general polar codes can be decoded via either successive cancellation (SC) or belief propagation (BP) decoding algorithm. However, to date…

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Batch codes serve as critical tools for load balancing in distributed storage systems. While numerous constructions exist for specific batch sizes t, current methodologies predominantly rely on code dimension parameters, limiting their…

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Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Desmond S. Lun , Muriel Medard , Ralf Koetter , Michelle Effros

The decoding error probability of codes is studied as a function of their block length. It is shown that the existence of codes with a polynomially small decoding error probability implies the existence of codes with an exponentially small…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Alexei Ashikhmin , Vitaly Skachek

Quantum error correction is crucial for universal fault-tolerant quantum computing. Highly accurate and low-time-complexity decoding algorithms play an indispensable role in ensuring quantum error correction works effectively. Among…

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This paper presents finite-blocklength achievability bounds for the Gaussian multiple access channel (MAC) and random access channel (RAC) under average-error and maximal-power constraints. Using random codewords uniformly distributed on a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Recep Can Yavas , Victoria Kostina , Michelle Effros

From the perspective of tree, we design a length-flexible coding scheme. For an arbitrary code length, we first construct a balanced binary tree (BBT) where the root node represents a transmitted codeword, the leaf nodes represent either…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Xinyuanmeng Yao , Xiao Ma

This letter introduces a novel channel coding design framework for short-length codewords that permits balancing the tradeoff between the bit error rate floor and waterfall region by modifying a single real-valued parameter. The proposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Mikel Hernaez , Pedro M. crespo , Javier Del Ser

We study the decoding problem for quantum Tanner codes and propose to exploit the underlying local code structure by grouping check nodes into more powerful generalized check nodes for enhanced iterative belief propagation (BP) decoding by…

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