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Product codes (PCs) protect a two-dimensional array of bits using short component codes. Assuming transmission over the binary symmetric channel, the decoding is commonly performed by iteratively applying bounded-distance decoding to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Christian Häger , Henry D. Pfister

Stochastic encoders for channel coding and lossy source coding are introduced with a rate close to the fundamental limits, where the only restriction is that the channel input alphabet and the reproduction alphabet of the lossy source code…

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Hypergraph product codes are a prototypical family of quantum codes with state-of-the-art decodability properties. In this work we consider the "noisy" syndrome decoding problem and exact recovery problem for hypergraph product codes and…

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Existing literature on source coding with side information (SCSI) mostly uses the state-of-the-art channel codes namely LDPC codes, turbo codes, and their variants and assume classical unique decoding. In this paper, we present an algebraic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-11-01 Mortuza Ali , Margreta Kuijper

Monotone chain polar codes generalize classical polar codes to multivariate settings, offering a flexible approach for achieving the entire admissible rate region in the distributed lossless coding problem. However, this flexibility also…

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A widely used method for solving SOS (Sum Of Squares) decomposition problem is to reduce it to the problem of semi-definite programs (SDPs) which can be efficiently solved in theory. In practice, although many SDP solvers can work out some…

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Content distribution over networks is often achieved by using mirror sites that hold copies of files or portions thereof to avoid congestion and delay issues arising from excessive demands to a single location. Accordingly, there are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Shurui Huang , Aditya Ramamoorthy , Muriel Medard

This work considers the problem of transmitting multiple compressible sources over a network at minimum cost. The aim is to find the optimal rates at which the sources should be compressed and the network flows using which they should be…

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In this paper we review existing hard-decision decoding algorithms for product codes along with different post-processing techniques used in conjunction with the iterative decoder for product codes. We improve the decoder by Reddy and…

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This paper considers the problem of distributed source coding for a large network. A major obstacle that poses an existential threat to practical deployment of conventional approaches to distributed coding is the exponential growth of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-08 Kumar Viswanatha , Sharadh Ramaswamy , Ankur Saxena , Emrah Akyol , Kenneth Rose

The problem of finding network codes for general connections is inherently difficult in capacity constrained networks. Resource minimization for general connections with network coding is further complicated. Existing methods for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-05 Ying Cui , Muriel Médard , Fan Lai , Edmund Yeh , Douglas Leith , Ken Duffy , Dhaivat Pandya

Blindly decoding a signal requires estimating its unknown transmit parameters, compensating for the wireless channel impairments, and identifying the modulation type. While deep learning can solve complex problems, digital signal processing…

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In this paper we introduce the class of Spread Codes for the use in random network coding. Spread Codes are based on the construction of spreads in finite projective geometry. The major contribution of the paper is an efficient decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Felice Manganiello , Elisa Gorla , Joachim Rosenthal

Linear network coding transmits data through networks by letting the intermediate nodes combine the messages they receive and forward the combinations towards their destinations. The solvability problem asks whether the demands of all the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-18 Maximilien Gadouleau , Adrien Richard , Eric Fanchon

Network slicing has emerged as an integral concept in 5G, aiming to partition the physical network infrastructure into isolated slices, customized for specific applications. We theoretically formulate the key performance metrics of an…

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In this paper we show that the Index Coding problem captures several important properties of the more general Network Coding problem. An instance of the Index Coding problem includes a server that holds a set of information messages…

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Nature often builds physical structures tailored for specific information processing tasks with computations encoded using diverse phenomena. These can sometimes outperform typical general-purpose computers. However, describing the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Tony McCaffrey , Thomas E. Gorochowski , Lee Spector

We present a construction of subspace codes along with an efficient algorithm for list decoding from both insertions and deletions, handling an information-theoretically maximum fraction of these with polynomially small rate. Our…

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Index coding studies multiterminal source-coding problems where a set of receivers are required to decode multiple (possibly different) messages from a common broadcast, and they each know some messages a priori. In this paper, at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-01 Lawrence Ong , Chin Keong Ho , Fabian Lim

Non-binary low-density parity-check codes are robust to various channel impairments. However, based on the existing decoding algorithms, the decoder implementations are expensive because of their excessive computational complexity and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Chung-Li Wang , Xiaoheng Chen , Zongwang Li , Shaohua Yang