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Constrained sequence (CS) codes, including fixed-length CS codes and variable-length CS codes, have been widely used in modern wireless communication and data storage systems. Sequences encoded with constrained sequence codes satisfy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Congzhe Cao , Duanshun Li , Ivan Fair

Codes considered as structures within unit schemes greatly extends the availability of linear block and convolutional codes and allows the construction of these codes to required length, rate, distance and type. Properties of a code emanate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Ted Hurley

This paper studies the tension between throughput and decoding delay performance of two widely-used network coding schemes: random linear network coding (RLNC) and instantly decodable network coding (IDNC). A single-hop broadcasting system…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Parastoo Sadeghi , Mingchao Yu

Sparse regression codes (SPARCs) are a class of codes that encode information through the superposition of columns of a randomised coding matrix. The combination with an outer non-binary low density parity check (NB-LDPC) code was recently…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Alexander Fengler , Burak Çakmak , Giuseppe Caire

Random network coding recently attracts attention as a technique to disseminate information in a network. This paper considers a non-coherent multi-shot network, where the unknown and time-variant network is used several times. In order to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Markus Stinner , Vladimir Sidorenko

The subblock energy-constrained codes (SECCs) and sliding window-constrained codes (SWCCs) have recently attracted attention due to various applications in communcation systems such as simultaneous energy and information transfer. In a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Tuan Thanh Nguyen , Kui Cai , Kees A. Schouhamer Immink

We address the problem of optimizing the throughput of network coded traffic in mobile networks operating in challenging environments where connectivity is intermittent and locally available memory space is limited. Random linear network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-04-19 Gabriel Popa

We consider the problem of constructing an erasure code for storage over a network when the data sources are distributed. Specifically, we assume that there are n storage nodes with limited memory and k<n sources generating the data. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Alexandros G. Dimakis , Vinod Prabhakaran , Kannan Ramchandran

We establish a general framework for construction of small ensembles of capacity achieving linear codes for a wide range of (not necessarily memoryless) discrete symmetric channels, and in particular, the binary erasure and symmetric…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-07-26 Mahdi Cheraghchi

We consider an \textit{Adaptive Random Convolutional Network Coding} (ARCNC) algorithm to address the issue of field size in random network coding for multicast, and study its memory and decoding delay performances through both analysis and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-20 Guo Wangmei , Shi Xiaomeng , Cai Ning , Muriel Médard

Hinging on ideas from physical-layer network coding, some promising proposals of coded random access systems seek to improve system performance (while preserving low complexity) by means of packet repetitions and decoding of linear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Adriano Pastore , Paul de Kerret , Monica Navarro , David Gregoratti , David Gesbert

We use random linear network coding (RLNC) based scheme for multipath communication in the presence of lossy links with different delay characteristics to obtain ultra-reliability and low latency. A sliding window version of RLNC is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-02-05 Frank Gabriel , Anil Kumar Chorppath , Ievgenii Tsokalo , Frank H. P. Fitzek

We consider the problem of coded distributed computing where a large linear computational job, such as a matrix multiplication, is divided into $k$ smaller tasks, encoded using an $(n,k)$ linear code, and performed over $n$ distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Mahdi Soleymani , Mohammad Vahid Jamali , Hessam Mahdavifar

As parallelism becomes critically important in the semiconductor technology, high-performance computing, and cloud applications, parallel network systems will increasingly follow suit. Today, parallelism is an essential architectural…

Performance · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Anna Engelmann , Wolfgang Bziuk , Admela Jukan , Muriel Medard

Low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes together with belief propagation (BP) decoding yield exceptional error correction capabilities in the large block length regime. Yet, there remains a gap between BP decoding and maximum likelihood…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Jonathan Mandelbaum , Holger Jäkel , Laurent Schmalen

We propose a novel adaptive and causal random linear network coding (AC-RLNC) algorithm with forward error correction (FEC) for a point-to-point communication channel with delayed feedback. AC-RLNC is adaptive to the channel condition, that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Alejandro Cohen , Derya Malak , Vered Bar Bracha , Muriel Medard

In this paper, we propose a methodology to compute the optimal finite-length coding rate for random linear network coding schemes over a line network. To do so, we first model the encoding, reencoding, and decoding process of different…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Tan Do-Duy , M. Ángeles Vázquez-Castro

A novel fountain coding scheme has been introduced. The scheme consists of a parallel concatenation of a MDS block code with a LRFC code, both constructed over the same field, $F_q$. The performance of the concatenated fountain coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-11-15 Francisco Lazaro Blasco , Gianluigi Liva

Locally repairable codes (LRCs) were originally introduced to enable efficient recovery from erasures in distributed storage systems by accessing only a small number of other symbols. While their structural properties-such as bounds and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Hoang Ly , Emina Soljanin , Philip Whiting

Channel coding alone is not sufficient to reliably transmit a message of finite length $K$ from a source to one or more destinations as in, e.g., file transfer. To ensure that no data is lost, it must be combined with rateless erasure…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-29 Christian Koller , Martin Haenggi , Joerg Kliewer , Daniel J. Costello