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We study error-correcting codes in the space $\mathcal{S}_{n,q}$ of length-$n$ multisets over a $q$-ary alphabet, motivated by permutation channels in which ordering is completely lost and errors act solely by deletions of symbols, i.e., by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Avraham Kreindel , Isaac Barouch Essayag , Aryeh Lev Zabokritskiy

This paper proves that any quantum t-deletion-correcting codes also correct a total of t insertion and deletion errors under a certain condition. Here, this condition is that a set of quantum states is defined as a quantum error-correcting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Ken Nakamura , Takayuki Nozaki

We investigate the problem of encoding data into an $(n, t)$-break-resilient code ($(n, t)$-BRC), i.e., a collections of sequences of length~$n$ from which the original data can be reconstructed even if they are adversarially broken at up…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Canran Wang , Jin Sima , Netanel Raviv

Already in the 1960s, Levenshtein and others studied error-correcting codes that protect against synchronization errors, such as symbol insertions and deletions. However, despite significant efforts, progress on designing such codes has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Bernhard Haeupler , Amirbehshad Shahrasbi

The substring edit error is the operation of replacing a substring $u$ of $x$ with another string $v$, where the lengths of $u$ and $v$ are bounded by a given constant $k$. It encompasses localized insertions, deletions, and substitutions…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Yuting Li , Yuanyuan Tang , Hao Lou , Ryan Gabrys , Farzad Farnoud

Finding deletion-correcting codes of maximum size has been an open problem for over 70 years, even for a single deletion. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for constructing deletion-correcting codes. A code is a set of sequences…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Franziska Weindel , Reinhard Heckel

Motivated by applications to DNA-storage, flash memory, and magnetic recording, we study perfect burst-correcting codes for the limited-magnitude error channel. These codes are lattices that tile the integer grid with the appropriate error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Hengjia Wei , Moshe Schwartz

We study the application of polar codes in deletion channels by analyzing the cascade of a binary erasure channel (BEC) and a deletion channel. We show how polar codes can be used effectively on a BEC with a single deletion, and propose a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Eldho K. Thomas , Vincent Y. F. Tan , Alexander Vardy , Mehul Motani

In 2007, Martinian and Trott presented codes for correcting a burst of erasures with a minimum decoding delay. Their construction employs [n,k] codes that can correct any burst of erasures (including wrap-around bursts) of length n-k. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-12-14 Henk D. L. Hollmann , Ludo M. G. M. Tolhuizen

Erasure coding techniques are getting integrated in networked distributed storage systems as a way to provide fault-tolerance at the cost of less storage overhead than traditional replication. Redundancy is maintained over time through…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-06-12 Lluis Pamies-Juarez , Frédérique Oggier , Anwitaman Datta

The design of block codes for short information blocks (e.g., a thousand or less information bits) is an open research problem that is gaining relevance thanks to emerging applications in wireless communication networks. In this paper, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Mustafa Cemil Coşkun , Giuseppe Durisi , Thomas Jerkovits , Gianluigi Liva , William Ryan , Brian Stein , Fabian Steiner

Document exchange and error correcting codes are two fundamental problems regarding communications. In the first problem, Alice and Bob each holds a string, and the goal is for Alice to send a short sketch to Bob, so that Bob can recover…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Kuan Cheng , Zhengzhong Jin , Xin Li , Ke Wu

This paper considers coding for so-called partially stuck (defect) memory cells. Such memory cells can only store partial information as some of their levels cannot be used fully due to, e.g., wearout. First, we present new constructions…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Haider Al Kim , Sven Puchinger , Ludo Tolhuizen , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

We present the first linear lower bound for the number of bits required to be accessed in the worst case to increment an integer in an arbitrary space- optimal binary representation. The best previously known lower bound was logarithmic. It…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-02-16 M. Raskin

Distributed storage systems need to store data redundantly in order to provide some fault-tolerance and guarantee system reliability. Different coding techniques have been proposed to provide the required redundancy more efficiently than…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Lluis Pamies-Juarez , Henk D. L. Hollmann , Frédérique Oggier

This paper addresses the problem of adding redundancy to a collection of physical objects so that the overall system is more robust to failures. In contrast to its information counterpart, which can exploit parity to protect multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-09 Jennifer Tang , Da Wang , Yury Polyanskiy , Gregory Wornell

This study investigates the capabilities of Cyclic Redundancy Checks(CRCs) to detect burst and random errors. Researchers have favored these error detection codes throughout the evolution of computing and have implemented them in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Waylon Jepsen

Function-correcting codes (FCCs) protect specific function evaluations of a message against errors. This condition imposes a less stringent distance requirement than classical error-correcting codes (ECCs), allowing for reduced redundancy.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Hoang Ly , Emina Soljanin

We study near optimal error correction codes for real-time communication. In our setup the encoder must operate on an incoming source stream in a sequential manner, and the decoder must reconstruct each source packet within a fixed playback…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-16 Ahmed Badr , Ashish Khisti , Wai-Tian Tan , John Apostolopoulos

Function-correcting codes, introduced by Lenz, Bitar, Wachter-Zeh, and Yaakobi, protect specific function values of a message rather than the entire message. A central challenge is determining the optimal redundancy -- the minimum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Gennian Ge , Zixiang Xu , Xiande Zhang , Yijun Zhang