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This paper proposes a fountain coding system which has lower space decoding complexity and lower decoding erasure rate than the Raptor coding systems. The main idea of the proposed fountain code is employing shift and exclusive OR to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-30 Takayuki Nozaki

Shaping codes are used to generate code sequences in which the symbols obey a prescribed probability distribution. They arise naturally in the context of source coding for noiseless channels with unequal symbol costs. Recently, shaping…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Yi Liu , Yonglong Li , Pengfei Huang , Paul H. Siegel

In multi-terminal networks, feedback increases the capacity region and helps communication devices to coordinate. In this article, we deepen the relationship between coordination and feedback by considering a point-to-point scenario with an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Maël Le Treust

We consider large-scale wireless sensor networks with $n$ nodes, out of which k are in possession, (e.g., have sensed or collected in some other way) k information packets. In the scenarios in which network nodes are vulnerable because of,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-10-27 Zhenning Kong , Salah A. Aly , Emina Soljanin

We investigate the performance of rateless codes for single-server streaming to diverse users, assuming that diversity in users is present not only because they have different channel conditions, but also because they demand different…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-01-27 Yao Li , Emina Soljanin

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

We consider capacity of discrete-time channels with feedback for the general case where the feedback is a time-invariant deterministic function of the output samples. Under the assumption that the channel states take values in a finite…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Haim Permuter , Tsachy Weissman , Andrea Goldsmith

A new single-letter achievable rate region is proposed for the two-user discrete memoryless multiple-access channel(MAC) with noiseless feedback. The proposed region includes the Cover-Leung rate region [1], and it is shown that the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-31 Ramji Venkataramanan , S. Sandeep Pradhan

This paper proposes a method for designing error correction codes by combining a known coding scheme with an autoencoder. Specifically, we integrate an LDPC code with a trained autoencoder to develop an error correction code for intractable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Eren Balevi , Jeffrey G. Andrews

We present techniques that improve the performance of asymmetric stabilizer codes in the presence of unital channels with unknown parameters. Our method estimates the channel parameters using information recovered from syndrome measurements…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-30 Jan Florjanczyk , Todd A. Brun

This paper studies the structure of downlink sum-rate maximizing selective decentralized feedback policies for opportunistic beamforming under finite feedback constraints on the average number of mobile users feeding back. Firstly, it is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-07-26 Tharaka Samarasinghe , Hazer Inaltekin , Jamie S. Evans

Data-driven deep learning based code designs, including low-complexity neural decoders for existing codes, or end-to-end trainable auto-encoders have exhibited impressive results, particularly in scenarios for which we do not have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Emre Ozfatura , Chenghong Bian , Deniz Gunduz

Optimal transport has numerous applications, particularly in machine learning tasks involving generative models. In practice, the transportation process often encounters an information bottleneck, typically arising from the conversion of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Xiqiang Qu , Ruibin Li , Jun Chen , Lei Yu , Xinbing Wang

We propose application-layer coding schemes to recover lost data in delay-sensitive uplink (sensor-to-gateway) communications in the Internet of Things. Built on an approach that combines retransmissions and forward erasure correction, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Vatsalya Chaubey , Siddhartha S. Borkotoky

The problem of computing a linear combination of sources over a multiple access channel is studied. Inner and outer bounds on the optimal tradeoff between the communication rates are established when encoding is restricted to random…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Pinar Sen , Sung Hoon Lim , Young-Han Kim

This paper presents a general approach for optimizing the number of symbols in increments (packets of incremental redundancy) in a feedback communication system with a limited number of increments. This approach is based on a tight normal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-17 Kasra Vakilinia , Sudarsan V. S. Ranganathan , Dariush Divsalar , Richard D. Wesel

We focus on designing error-correcting codes for the symmetric Gaussian broadcast channel with feedback. Feedback not only expands the capacity region of the broadcast channel but also enhances transmission reliability. In this work, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Yingyao Zhou , Natasha Devroye

In this paper, we focus on the design and analysis of the Analog Fountain Code (AFC) for short packet communications. We first propose a density evolution (DE) based framework, which tracks the evolution of the probability density function…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Wen Jun Lim , Rana Abbas , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic , Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam

We consider the problem of joint source-channel coding for semantic communication from a rateless perspective, the purpose of which is to settle the balance between reliability (distortion/perception) and effectiveness (rate) of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Cheng Peng , Rulong Wang , Yong Xiao

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