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Block codes are considered for improving the reliability of messages stored in a computer memory with both stuck-at defects and random errors. It is assumed that the side information about the state of the defects is available to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Ivana Djurdjevic , Robert Mateescu , Cyril Guyot

In this paper, we first introduce the concept of elementary linear subspace, which has similar properties to those of a set of coordinates. Using this new concept, we derive properties of maximum rank distance (MRD) codes that parallel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Maximilien Gadouleau , Zhiyuan Yan

The recently introduced recursive projection aggregation (RPA) decoding method for Reed-Muller (RM) codes can achieve near-maximum likelihood (ML) decoding performance. However, its high computational complexity makes its implementation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Marzieh Hashemipour-Nazari , Kees Goossens , Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming

A general class of polynomial remainder codes is considered. Such codes are very flexible in rate and length and include Reed-Solomon codes as a special case. As an extension of previous work, two joint error-and-erasure decoding approaches…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-27 Jiun-Hung Yu

We study the problem of universal decoding for unknown discrete memoryless channels in the presence of erasure/list option at the decoder, in the random coding regime. Specifically, we harness a universal version of Forney's classical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-23 Wasim Huleihel , Nir Weinberger , Neri Merhav

Erasures are the primary type of errors in physical systems dominated by leakage errors. While quantum error correction (QEC) using stabilizer codes can combat erasure errors, it remains unknown which constructions achieve capacity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Kao-Yueh Kuo , Yingkai Ouyang

This paper considers a multi-source multi-relay network, in which relay nodes employ a coding scheme based on random linear network coding on source packets and generate coded packets. If a destination node collects enough coded packets, it…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Amjad Saeed Khan , Ioannis Chatzigeorgiou

In this paper we survey the various erasure codes which had been proposed and patented recently, and along the survey we provide introductory tutorial on many of the essential concepts and readings in erasure and Fountain codes. Packet…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-07 Jalaluddin Qureshi , Chuan Heng Fohy , Jianfei Cai

In this paper, we present a novel way for solving the main problem of designing the capacity approaching irregular low-density parity-check (LDPC) code ensemble over binary erasure channel (BEC). The proposed method is much simpler, faster,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-02 H. Tavakoli , M. Ahmadian Attari , M. R. Peyghami

In 2021, Augot, Couvreur, Lavauzelle and Neri introduced a new class of rank metric codes which can be regarded as rank metric counterparts of Reed-Muller codes. Given a finite Galois extension $\mathbb{L} / \mathbb{K}$, these codes are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Alain Couvreur , Rakhi Pratihar

When information is to be transmitted over an unknown, possibly unreliable channel, an erasure option at the decoder is desirable. Using constant-composition random codes, we propose a generalization of Csiszar and Korner's Maximum Mutual…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Pierre Moulin

Automorphism-ensemble decoding is applied to the Plotkin constituents of Reed-Muller codes, resulting in a new soft-decision decoding algorithm with state-of-the-art performance versus complexity trade-offs.

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Yicheng Qu , Amir Tasbihi , Frank R. Kschischang

We derive the optimum second-order coding rates, known as second-order capacities, for erasure and list decoding. For erasure decoding for discrete memoryless channels, we show that second-order capacity is $\sqrt{V}\Phi^{-1}(\epsilon_t)$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-22 Vincent Y. F. Tan , Pierre Moulin

This paper studies the decoding capabilities of maximum distance profile (MDP) convolutional codes over the erasure channel and compares them with the decoding capabilities of MDS block codes over the same channel. The erasure channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-03-18 Virtudes Tomás , Joachim Rosenthal , Roxana Smarandache

The question of whether Reed-Muller (RM) codes achieve capacity on binary memoryless symmetric (BMS) channels has drawn attention since it was resolved positively for the binary erasure channel by Kudekar et al. in 2016. In 2021, Reeves and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Avijit Mandal , Henry D. Pfister

This paper tackles two problems that fall under the study of coding for insertions and deletions. These problems are motivated by several applications, among them is reconstructing strands in DNA-based storage systems. Under this paradigm,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Omer Sabary , Daniella Bar-Lev , Yotam Gershon , Alexander Yucovich , Eitan Yaakobi

A new algorithm for efficient exact maximum likelihood decoding of polar codes (which may be CRC augmented), transmitted over the binary erasure channel, is presented. The algorithm applies a matrix triangulation process on a sparse polar…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Yonatan Urman , David Burshtein

The performance of maximum-likelihood (ML) decoded binary linear block codes is addressed via the derivation of tightened upper bounds on their decoding error probability. The upper bounds on the block and bit error probabilities are valid…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 M. Twitto , I. Sason , S. Shamai

We study a family of subcodes of the $m$-dimensional product code $\mathscr{C}^{\otimes m}$ ('subproduct codes') that have a recursive Plotkin-like structure, and which include Reed-Muller (RM) codes and Dual Berman codes as special cases.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Aditya Siddheshwar , Lakshmi Prasad Natarajan , Prasad Krishnan

Reed--Muller (RM) codes are known to achieve capacity on binary symmetric channels (BSC) under the Maximum a Posteriori (MAP) decoder. However, it remains an open problem to design a capacity achieving polynomial-time RM decoder. Due to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Xuzhe Xia , Nicholas Kwan , Lele Wang