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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

This paper proposes an erasure correcting code and its systematic form for the distributed storage system. The proposed codes are encoded by exclusive OR and bit-level shift operation. By the shift operation, the encoded packets are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Yuta Hanaki , Takayuki Nozaki

We provide a general framework for bounding the block error threshold of a linear code $C\subseteq \mathbb{F}_2^N$ over the erasure channel in terms of its bit error threshold. Our approach relies on understanding the minimum support weight…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Henry D. Pfister , Oscar Sprumont , Gilles Zémor

We give a linear-time erasure list-decoding algorithm for expander codes. More precisely, let $r > 0$ be any integer. Given an inner code $C_0$ of length $d$, and a $d$-regular bipartite expander graph $G$ with $n$ vertices on each side, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Noga Ron-Zewi , Mary Wootters , Gilles Zémor

Flash memory is a non-volatile computer memory comprised of blocks of cells, wherein each cell can take on q different values or levels. While increasing the cell level is easy, reducing the level of a cell can be accomplished only by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-05-12 Hessam Mahdavifar , Paul H. Siegel , Alexander Vardy , Jack K. Wolf , Eitan Yaakobi

We present a new family of quantum low-density parity-check codes, which we call radial codes, obtained from the lifted product of a specific subset of classical quasi-cyclic codes. The codes are defined using a pair of integers $(r,s)$ and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Thomas R. Scruby , Timo Hillmann , Joschka Roffe

This paper is devoted to the finite-length analysis of turbo decoding over the binary erasure channel (BEC). The performance of iterative belief-propagation (BP) decoding of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes over the BEC can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-05-31 Eirik Rosnes , Øyvind Ytrehus

This paper presents general bounds on the highest achievable rate for list-decodable insertion-deletion codes. In particular, we give novel outer and inner bounds for the highest achievable communication rate of any insertion-deletion code…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Bernhard Haeupler , Amirbehshad Shahrasbi

In distributed storage systems, locally repairable codes (LRCs) are designed to reduce disk I/O and repair costs by enabling recovery of each code symbol from a small number of other symbols. To handle multiple node failures,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Jing Qiu , Fang-Wei Fu

We give a complete answer to the following basic question: "What is the maximal fraction of deletions or insertions tolerable by $q$-ary list-decodable codes with non-vanishing information rate?" This question has been open even for binary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Venkatesan Guruswami , Bernhard Haeupler , Amirbehshad Shahrasbi

Generalized Concatenated (GC), also known as Integrated Interleaved (II) Codes, are studied from an erasure correction point of view making them useful for Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks (RAID) types of architectures combining global…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-11 Mario Blaum , Steven Hetzler

We consider the Additive White Gaussian Noise channel with Binary Phase Shift Keying modulation. Our aim is to enable an algebraic hard decision Bounded Minimum Distance decoder for a binary block code to exploit soft information obtained…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-05-18 Christian Senger , Vladimir Sidorenko , Victor Zyablov

Locally Decodable Codes (LDCs) are error-correcting codes for which individual message symbols can be quickly recovered despite errors in the codeword. LDCs for Hamming errors have been studied extensively in the past few decades, where a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Jeremiah Blocki , Kuan Cheng , Elena Grigorescu , Xin Li , Yu Zheng , Minshen Zhu

Quantum low-density parity-check (QLDPC) codes provide non vanishing rates, distance scaling with the blocklength of the code, and facilitate fast iterative decoding because of their sparsity. However, in practice iterative decoding fails…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Dimitris Chytas , Paul N. Fessatidis , Boulat A. Bash , Bane Vasić

An $(n,k,\ell)$-vector MDS code is a $\mathbb{F}$-linear subspace of $(\mathbb{F}^\ell)^n$ (for some field $\mathbb{F}$) of dimension $k\ell$, such that any $k$ (vector) symbols of the codeword suffice to determine the remaining $r=n-k$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Omar Alrabiah , Venkatesan Guruswami

Entanglement-assisted quantum error correcting codes (EAQECCs) play a significant role in protecting quantum information from decoherence and quantum noise. Recently, constructing entanglement-assisted quantum maximum distance separable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Wan Jiang , Shixin Zhu , Xiaojing Chen

Regenerating codes enable trading off repair bandwidth for storage in distributed storage systems (DSS). Due to their distributed nature, these systems are intrinsically susceptible to attacks, and they may also be subject to multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-10 O. Ozan Koyluoglu , Ankit Singh Rawat , Sriram Vishwanath

A linear block code with dimension $k$, length $n$, and minimum distance $d$ is called a locally repairable code (LRC) with locality $r$ if it can retrieve any coded symbol by at most $r$ other coded symbols. LRCs have been recently…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-25 Mostafa Shahabinejad , Majid Khabbazian , Masoud Ardakani

High-rate space-time block codes (STBC with code rate > 1) in multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems are able to provide both spatial multiplexing gain and diversity gain, but have high maximum likelihood (ML) decoding complexity. Since…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Tian Peng Ren , Yong Liang Guan , Chau Yuen , Erry Gunawan , Er Yang Zhang

We prove the following results concerning the list decoding of error-correcting codes: (i) We show that for \textit{any} code with a relative distance of $\delta$ (over a large enough alphabet), the following result holds for \textit{random…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-01-13 Atri Rudra , Steve Uurtamo