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We present a closed-form expression for the minimal delay that is achievable in a setting that combines a buffer and an erasure code, used to mitigate the packet delay variance. The erasure code is modeled according to the recent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-17 Jesper H. Sørensen , Petar Popovski , Jan Østergaard

Performance of reliable communication over a coherent slow fading channel at high SNR is succinctly captured as a fundamental tradeoff between diversity and multiplexing gains. We study the problem of designing codes that optimally tradeoff…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Saurabha Tavildar , Pramod Viswanath

As the mobile application landscape expands, wireless networks are tasked with supporting various connection profiles, including real-time communications and delay-sensitive traffic. Among many ensuing engineering challenges is the need to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-13 Fatemeh Hamidi-Sepehr , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Henry Pfister

In this paper, a downlink scenario in which a single-antenna base station communicates with K single antenna users, over a time-correlated fading channel, is considered. It is assumed that channel state information is perfectly known at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Mehdi Ansari Sadrabadi , Alireza Bayesteh , Amir K. Khandani

Rateless codes have been shown to provide robust error correction over a wide range of binary and noisy channels. Using a stochastic geometry model, this paper studies the performance of rateless codes in the cellular downlink and compares…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-27 Amogh Rajanna , Martin Haenggi

Erasure coding is widely used for massive storage in data centers to achieve high fault tolerance and low storage redundancy. Since the cross-rack communication cost is often high, it is critical to design erasure codes that minimize the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Hanxu Hou , Patrick P. C. Lee , Kenneth W. Shum , Yuchong Hu

We present nonasymptotic bounds on the maximum coding rate achievable over a Rician block-fading channel for a fixed packet size and a fixed packet error probability. Our bounds, which apply to the scenario where no a priori channel state…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Johan Östman , Giuseppe Durisi , Erik G. Ström

We consider an energy harvesting transmitter sending status updates to a receiver over an erasure channel, where each status update is of length $k$ symbols. The energy arrivals and the channel erasures are independent and identically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Abdulrahman Baknina , Sennur Ulukus

In this paper, we investigate the optimum way to allocate redundancy of finite-length nested codes for modern nonvolatile memories suffering from both permanent defects and transient errors (erasures or random errors). A nested coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Yongjune Kim , B. V. K. Vijaya Kumar

Unreliable fading wireless channels are the main challenge for strict performance guarantees in mobile communications. Diversity schemes including massive number of antennas, huge spectrum bands and multi-connectivity links are applied to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Karl-Ludwig Besser , Eduard A. Jorswieck

An erasure channel with a fixed alphabet size $q$, where $q \gg 1$, is studied. It is proved that over any erasure channel (with or without memory), Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) codes achieve the minimum probability of error (assuming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-06-06 Shervan Fashandi , Shahab Oveis Gharan , Amir K. Khandani

We study an incremental redundancy (IR) cooperative coding scheme for wireless networks. To exploit the spatial diversity benefit we propose a cluster-based collaborating strategy for a quasi-static Rayleigh fading channel model and based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Ruoheng Liu , Predrag Spasojevic , Emina Soljanin

Quantum capacity gives the fundamental limit of information transmission through a channel. However, evaluating the quantum capacities of a continuous-variable bosonic quantum channel, as well as finding an optimal code to achieve the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-03 Adam Taylor , Michael Hanks , Hyukjoon Kwon , M. S. Kim

A new channel coding approach was proposed in [1] for random multiple access communication over the discrete-time memoryless channel. The coding approach allows users to choose their communication rates independently without sharing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Zheng Wang , Jie Luo

The perceived quality of real-time media delivered over IP networks depends on both the rate and burstiness of packet loss. In this paper, we develop a new mathematical model for the residual burstiness of loss under erasure coding. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Bobak McCann , Kerry Fendick

This paper investigates streaming codes over three-node relay networks under burst packet erasures with a delay constraint $T$. In any sliding window of $T+1$ consecutive packets, the source-to-relay and relay-to-destination channels may…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zhipeng Li , Wenjie Ma , Zhifang Zhang

Consider a lossy packet network of queues, communicating over a wireless medium. This paper presents a throughput-optimal transmission strategy for a unicast network when feedback is available, which has the following advantages: It…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-04-29 Brian Smith , Babak Hassibi

We explain how to optimize finite-length LDPC codes for transmission over the binary erasure channel. Our approach relies on an analytic approximation of the erasure probability. This is in turn based on a finite-length scaling result to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Abdelaziz Amraoui , Andrea Montanari , Ruediger Urbanke

This paper studies the complicated interplay of the completion time (as a measure of throughput) and the decoding delay performance in instantly decodable network coded (IDNC) systems over wireless broadcast erasure channels with memory,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-12 Neda Aboutorab , Parastoo Sadeghi , Sameh Sorour

In this paper, we study ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (URLLC) under fading using multiple frequency or time bins. We investigate an approach to find an upper-bound on the packet error rate when a finite-length code is used.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Jinho Choi