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The extreme requirements for high reliability and low latency in the upcoming Sixth Generation (6G) wireless networks are challenging the design of multi-hop wireless transport networks. Inspired by the advent of the virtualization concept…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Bin Han , Muxia Sun , Yao Zhu , Vincenzo Sciancalepore , Mohammad Asif Habibi , Yulin Hu , Anke Schmeink , Yan-Fu Li , Hans D. Schotten

Randomized backoff protocols, such as exponential backoff, are a powerful tool for managing access to a shared resource, often a wireless communication channel (e.g., [1]). For a wireless device to transmit successfully, it uses a backoff…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Michael A. Bender , Seth Gilbert , Fabian Kuhn , John Kuszmaul , Muriel Médard

We present a theory of quantum serial turbo-codes, describe their iterative decoding algorithm, and study their performances numerically on a depolarization channel. Our construction offers several advantages over quantum LDPC codes. First,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-06-10 David Poulin , Jean-Pierre Tillich , Harold Ollivier

Fifth generation new radio aims to facilitate new use cases in wireless communications. Some of these new use cases have highly de-manding latency requirements; many of the powerful forward error correction codes deployed in current…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Mehmet Cagri Ilter , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Typically, forward error correction (FEC) codes are designed based on the minimization of the error rate for a given code rate. However, for applications that incorporate hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) protocol and adaptive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Hossein Khoshnevis , Ian Marsland , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Conventional communication systems are mainly designed to reduce error rates and increase transmission rates, and therefore usually provide uniform protection to all transmitted messages. However, in intent-oriented applications, different…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Qiming Lu , Shan Lu , Takaya Yamazato

Quantum convolutional code was introduced recently as an alternative way to protect vital quantum information. To complete the analysis of quantum convolutional code, I report a way to decode certain quantum convolutional codes based on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 H. F. Chau

A status updating system is considered in which a variable length code is used to transmit messages to a receiver over a noisy channel. The goal is to optimize the codewords lengths such that successfully-decoded messages are timely. That…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Ahmed Arafa , Richard D. Wesel

The inherent uncertainty of communication channels implies that any coding scheme has a non-zero probability of failing to correct errors, making retransmission mechanisms essential. To ensure message reliability and integrity, a dual-layer…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Chaofeng Guan , Gaojun Luo , Lan Luo , Yangyang Fei , Hong Wang

The trade-off between reliability, latency, and energy efficiency is a central problem in communication systems. Advanced hybrid automated repeat request (HARQ) techniques reduce retransmissions required for reliable communication but incur…

An unexpected breakdown in the existing theory of quantum serial turbo coding is that a quantum convolutional encoder cannot simultaneously be recursive and non-catastrophic. These properties are essential for quantum turbo code families to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-28 Mark M. Wilde , Min-Hsiu Hsieh , Zunaira Babar

In modern communication systems with feedback, there are increasingly more scenarios where the transmitter has much less power than the receiver (e.g., medical implant devices), which we refer to as noise-asymmetric channels. For such…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Sravan Kumar Ankireddy , S. Ashwin Hebbar , Yihan Jiang , Hyeji Kim , Pramod Viswanath

For decades, cellular networks have greatly evolved to support high data rates over reliable communication. Hybrid automatic-repeat-request (ARQ) is one of the techniques to make such improvement possible. However, this advancement is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-18 Hyukjoon Kwon , Jungwon Lee , Inyup Kang

For efficient modulation and error control coding, the deliberate flipping approach imposes the run-length-limited(RLL) constraint by bit error before recording. From the read side, a high coding rate limits the correcting capability of RLL…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Hong-fu Chou

Recently, semantic communication has been brought to the forefront because of its great success in deep learning (DL), especially Transformer. Even if semantic communication has been successfully applied in the sentence transmission to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-10 Peiwen Jiang , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin , Geoffrey Ye Li

This PhD thesis considers the performance evaluation and enhancement of video communication over wireless channels. The system model considers hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) with Chase combining and turbo product codes (TPC). The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-12 Husameldin Mukhtar

We propose two schemes for selective-repeat ARQ protocols over packet erasure channels with unreliable feedback: (i) a hybrid ARQ protocol with soft combining at the receiver, and (ii) a coded ARQ protocol, by building on the uncoded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Derya Malak , Muriel Médard , Edmund M. Yeh

An information theoretic framework for unequal error protection is developed in terms of the exponential error bounds. The fundamental difference between the bit-wise and message-wise unequal error protection (UEP) is demonstrated, for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Shashi Borade , Baris Nakiboglu , Lizhong Zheng

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

Iterative decoding techniques have gain popularity due to their performance and their application in most communications systems. In this paper, we present a new application of our iterative decoder on the GPCB (Generalized Parallel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-14 Hamid Allouch , Idriss Chana , Mostafa Belkasmi