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Understanding the limits of list-decoding and list-recovery of Reed-Solomon (RS) codes is of prime interest in coding theory and has attracted a lot of attention in recent decades. However, the best possible parameters for these problems…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Eitan Goldberg , Chong Shangguan , Itzhak Tamo

Joint network-channel codes (JNCC) can improve the performance of communication in wireless networks, by combining, at the physical layer, the channel codes and the network code as an overall error-correcting code. JNCC is increasingly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-15 Dieter Duyck , Michael Heindlmaier , Daniele Capirone , Marc Moeneclaey

Spatially-coupled (SC) codes are a class of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes that have excellent performance thanks to the degrees of freedom they offer. An SC code is designed by partitioning a base matrix into components, the number…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Bade Aksoy , Doğukan Özbayrak , Ahmed Hareedy

The min-rank of a digraph was shown by Bar-Yossef et al. (2006) to represent the length of an optimal scalar linear solution of the corresponding instance of the Index Coding with Side Information (ICSI) problem. In this work, the graphs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-19 Son Hoang Dau , Vitaly Skachek , Yeow Meng Chee

We consider the problem of communication over a three user discrete memoryless interference channel ($3-$IC). The current known coding techniques for communicating over an arbitrary $3-$IC are based on message splitting, superposition…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Arun Padakandla , Aria G. Sahebi , S. Sandeep Pradhan

The sum-rank metric naturally extends both the Hamming and rank metrics in coding theory over fields. It measures the error-correcting capability of codes in multishot matrix-multiplicative channels (e.g. linear network coding or the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Umberto Martínez-Peñas

Erasure coding has been recognized as a powerful method to mitigate delays due to slow or straggling nodes in distributed systems. This work shows that erasure coding of data objects can flexibly handle skews in the request rates. Coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Mehmet Aktas , Gauri Joshi , Swanand Kadhe , Fatemeh Kazemi , Emina Soljanin

In recent years, researchers have proposed numerous benchmarks to evaluate the impressive coding capabilities of large language models (LLMs). However, current benchmarks primarily assess the accuracy of LLM-generated code, while neglecting…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Jiasheng Zheng , Boxi Cao , Zhengzhao Ma , Ruotong Pan , Hongyu Lin , Yaojie Lu , Xianpei Han , Le Sun

It is already known that in multicast (single source, multiple sinks) network, random linear network coding can achieve the maximum flow upper bound. In this paper, we investigate how random linear network coding behaves in general…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-09 Yuan Li

Coding for distributed storage gives rise to a new set of problems in coding theory related to the need of reducing inter-node communication in the system. A large number of recent papers addressed the problem of optimizing the total amount…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-02 Itzhak Tamo , Min Ye , Alexander Barg

This paper investigates the construction of rank-metric codes with specified Ferrers diagram shapes. These codes play a role in the multilevel construction for subspace codes. A conjecture from 2009 provides an upper bound for the dimension…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Jared Antrobus , Heide Gluesing-Luerssen

Chinese remainder theorem (CRT) is widely applied in cryptography, coding theory, and signal processing. It has been extended to the multidimensional CRT (MD-CRT), which reconstructs an integer vector from its vector remainders modulo…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-19 Guangpu Guo , Xiang-Gen Xia

New families of maximum distance separable (MDS) codes are constructed from elliptic curves by exploiting their group structures. In contrast to classical constructions based on divisors supported at a single rational point, the proposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Puyin Wang , Wei Liu , Jinquan Luo , Dengxin Zhai

The interference channel with degraded message sets (IC-DMS) refers to a communication model in which two senders attempt to communicate with their respective receivers simultaneously through a common medium, and one of the senders has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Jinhua Jiang , Xin Yan

Low-density parity-check (LDPC) convolutional codes have been shown to exhibit excellent performance under low-complexity belief-propagation decoding [1], [2]. This phenomenon is now termed threshold saturation via spatial coupling. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-30 Santhosh Kumar , Andrew J. Young , Nicolas Macris , Henry D. Pfister

We construct $s$-interleaved linearized Reed--Solomon (ILRS) codes and variants and propose efficient decoding schemes that can correct errors beyond the unique decoding radius in the sum-rank metric. The proposed interpolation-based scheme…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Hannes Bartz , Sven Puchinger

Sum-rank-metric codes have wide applications in universal error correction, multishot network coding, space-time coding and the construction of partial-MDS codes for repair in distributed storage. Fundamental properties of sum-rank-metric…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Hao Chen

Reed-Solomon codes are a classic family of error-correcting codes consisting of evaluations of low-degree polynomials over a finite field on some sequence of distinct field elements. They are widely known for their optimal unique-decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Omar Alrabiah , Zeyu Guo , Venkatesan Guruswami , Ray Li , Zihan Zhang

Motivated by applications in DNA-based data storage, constrained codes have attracted a considerable amount of attention from both academia and industry. We study the maximum cardinality of constrained codes for which the constraints can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Yuanting Shen , Chong Shangguan , Zhicong Lin , Gennian Ge

Basic algebraic and combinatorial properties of finite vector spaces in which individual vectors are allowed to have multiplicities larger than $ 1 $ are derived. An application in coding theory is illustrated by showing that multispace…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Mladen Kovačević