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We study incremental redundancy hybrid ARQ (IR-HARQ) schemes based on punctured, finite-length, LDPC codes. The transmission is assumed to take place over time varying binary erasure channels, such as mobile wireless channels at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-30 Iryna Andriyanova , Emina Soljanin

Channel coding from 2G to 5G has assumed the inputs bits at the physical layer to be uniformly distributed. However, hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) bits transmitted in the uplink are inherently non-uniformly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-20 Akash Doshi , Pinar Sen , Kirill Ivanov , Wei Yang , June Namgoong , Runxin Wang , Rachel Wang , Taesang Yoo , Jing Jiang , Tingfang Ji

In this paper we propose the introduction of adaptive hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) in the context of mobile satellite communications. HARQ schemes which are commonly used in terrestrial links, can be adapted to improve the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Rami Ali Ahmad , Jérôme Lacan , Fabrice Arnal , Mathieu Gineste , Laurence Clarac

Because of their capacity-approaching performance, graph-based codes have a wide range of applications, including communications and storage. In these codes, unequal error protection (UEP) can offer performance gains with limited rate loss.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Beyza Dabak , Ahmed Hareedy , Alexei Ashikhmin , Robert Calderbank

We propose a new class of information-coupled (IC) Turbo codes to improve the transport block (TB) error rate performance for long-term evolution (LTE) systems, while keeping the hybrid automatic repeat request protocol and the Turbo…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Lei Yang , Yixuan Xie , Xiaowei Wu , Jinhong Yuan , Xingqing Cheng , Lei Wan

This paper introduces a novel technique that enables access by a cognitive secondary user (SU) to a spectrum occupied by an incumbent primary user (PU) that employs Type-I Hybrid ARQ. The technique allows the SU to perform selective…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-29 Nicolo Michelusi , Petar Popovski , Michele Zorzi

Quantum information needs to be protected by quantum error-correcting codes due to imperfect physical devices and operations. One would like to have an efficient and high-performance decoding procedure for the class of quantum stabilizer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-18 Kao-Yueh Kuo , Ching-Yi Lai

This paper investigates the incremental-redundancy hybrid-automatic repeat request (IR-HARQ) transmission over independent block-fading channels in the presence of an eavesdropper, where the secrecy of the transmission is ensured via…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Maël Le Treust , Leszek Szczecinski , Fabrice Labeau

We investigate Early Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (E-HARQ) feedback schemes enhanced by machine learning techniques as a path towards ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (URLLC). To this end, we propose machine learning methods…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Nils Strodthoff , Barış Göktepe , Thomas Schierl , Cornelius Hellge , Wojciech Samek

In this work, we consider transmissions over block fading channels and assume that adaptive modulation and coding (AMC) and hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) are implemented. Knowing that in high signal-to-noise ratio, the conventional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Mohammed Jabi , Leszek Szczecinski , Mustapha Benjillali , Abdellatif Benyouss , Benoit Pelletier

This paper proposes the design of polar and convolutional coset codes for the unequal message protection (UMP) in the short blocklength regime, to overcome the rate loss introduced by preamble-based solutions. After providing conditions to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Alexander Sauter , Riccardo Schiavone , Lucía Balsa Picado , Gianluigi Liva

We present a novel autoencoder-based approach for designing codes that provide unequal error protection (UEP) capabilities. The proposed design is based on a generalization of an autoencoder loss function that accommodates both message-wise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Vukan Ninkovic , Dejan Vukobratovic , Christian Häger , Henk Wymeersch , Alexandre Graell i Amat

A hybrid ARQ (HARQ) scheme for polar code, which is called active-bit relocation under masks (ARUM), is proposed. In each transmission, the data bits are encoded and bit-wisely XOR-masked using a binary vector before being transmitted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-18 Kai Chen , Liangming Wu , Changlong Xu , Jian Li , Hao Xu , Jing Jiang

This paper presents a novel post-quantum cryptosystem based on high-memory masked convolutional codes. Unlike conventional code-based schemes that rely on block codes with fixed dimensions and limited error-correction capability, our…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Meir Ariel

The throughput achievable in truncated Hybrid ARQ protocol (HARQ) using incremental redundancy (IR) in analyzed when transmitting over a block-fading channel whose state is unknown at the transmitter. We allow the transmission lengths to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Leszek Szczecinski , Ciro Correa , Luciano Ahumada

In this work we consider incremental redundancy (IR) hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ), where transmission rounds are carried out over independent block-fading channels. We propose the so-called multi-packet HARQ where the transmitter…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-31 Mohammed Jabi , Aata El Hamss , Leszek Szczecinski , Pablo Piantanida

Unequal error protection (UEP) coding that enables differentiated reliability levels within a transmitted message is essential for modern communication systems. Autoencoder (AE)-based code designs have shown promise in the context of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Vukan Ninkovic , Dejan Vukobratovic

We outline a quantum convolutional coding technique for protecting a stream of classical bits and qubits. Our goal is to provide a framework for designing codes that approach the ``grandfather'' capacity of an entanglement-assisted quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-10-20 Mark M. Wilde , Todd A. Brun

A transcoding scheme for the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) is proposed that allows any partial frame modification to be followed by a partial re-compression of only the modified areas, while guaranteeing identical reconstruction of…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Mohsen Abdoli , Félix Henry , Gordon Clare

We introduce for non-uniform messages a novel hybrid universal network coding cryptosystem (NU-HUNCC) in the finite blocklength regime that provides Post-Quantum (PQ) security at high communication rates. Recently, hybrid cryptosystems…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Saar Tarnopolsky , Alejandro Cohen