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A distributed binary hypothesis testing (HT) problem involving two parties, one referred to as the observer and the other as the detector is studied. The observer observes a discrete memoryless source (DMS) and communicates its observations…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Sreejith Sreekumar , Deniz Gündüz

The paper introduces new bounds on the asymptotic density of parity-check matrices and the achievable rates under ML decoding of binary linear block codes transmitted over memoryless binary-input output-symmetric channels. The lower bounds…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Gil Wiechman , Igal Sason

It is shown that for any binary-input discrete memoryless channel $W$ with symmetric capacity $I(W)$ and any rate $R <I(W)$, the probability of block decoding error for polar coding under successive cancellation decoding satisfies $P_e \le…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-04-06 Erdal Arikan , Emre Telatar

We give a unified treatment of some inequalities that are used in the proofs of channel polarization theorems involving a binary-input discrete memoryless channel.

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-04 T. S. Jayram , Erdal Arikan

We derive bounds on the asymptotic density of parity-check matrices and the achievable rates of binary linear block codes transmitted over memoryless binary-input output-symmetric (MBIOS) channels. The lower bounds on the density of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Gil Wiechman , Igal Sason

Reading channels where $b$-tuples of adjacent symbols are read at every step have e.g.\ applications in storage. Corresponding bounds and constructions of codes for the $b$-symbol metric, especially the pair-symbol metric where $b=2$, were…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Sascha Kurz

In extension of the bit commitment task and following work initiated by Crepeau and Kilian, we introduce and solve the problem of characterising the optimal rate at which a discrete memoryless channel can be used for bit commitment. It…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Andreas Winter , Anderson C. A. Nascimento , Hideki Imai

The problem of blind identification of channel codes at a receiver involves identifying a code chosen by a transmitter from a known code-family, by observing the transmitted codewords through the channel. Most existing approaches for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Pramod Singh , Prasad Krishnan , Arti Yardi

Polar codes introduced by Arikan in 2009 are the first code family achieving the capacity of binary-input discrete memoryless channels (BIDMCs) with low-complexity encoding and decoding. Identifying unreliable synthetic channels in polar…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Yadong Jiao , Xiaoyan Cheng , Yuansheng Tang , Ming Xu

Distribution matching is the process of invertibly mapping a uniformly distributed input sequence onto sequences that approximate the output of a desired discrete memoryless source. The special case of a binary output alphabet and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Patrick Schulte , Bernhard C. Geiger

K.A.S. Immink and J.H. Weber recently defined and studied a channel with both gain and offset mismatch, modelling the behaviour of charge-leakage in flash memory. They proposed a decoding measure for this channel based on minimising Pearson…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-10 Simon R. Blackburn

We recently showed in [1] the superiority of certain structured coding matrices ensembles (such as partial row-orthogonal) for sparse superposition codes when compared with purely random matrices with i.i.d. entries, both…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-12 YuHao Liu , Teng Fu , Jean Barbier , TianQi Hou

The generalized Poor-Verdu error lower bound established in [1] for multihypothesis testing is studied in the classical channel coding context. It is proved that for any sequence of block codes sent over the memoryless binary symmetric…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Ling-Hua Chang , Po-Ning Chen , Fady Alajaji , Yunghsiang S. Han

We consider the problem of universal decoding for arbitrary unknown channels in the random coding regime. For a given random coding distribution and a given class of metric decoders, we propose a generic universal decoder whose average…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Neri Merhav

This paper provides novel insights into channel and subspace codes in nonadaptive channel sensing with a single RF chain. Observing that this problem naturally maps to a noncoherent decoding problem, we show that the sensing performance of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-23 Parthasarathi Khirwadkar , Robin Rajamäki , Piya Pal

This work contains two main contributions concerning the asymmetric broadcast channel. The first is an analysis of the exact random coding error exponents for both users, and the second is the derivation of universal decoders for both…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Ran Averbuch , Neri Merhav

Channel polarization, originally proposed for binary-input channels, is generalized to arbitrary discrete memoryless channels. Specifically, it is shown that when the input alphabet size is a prime number, a similar construction to that for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-08-04 Eren Sasoglu , Emre Telatar , Erdal Arikan

A method is proposed, called channel polarization, to construct code sequences that achieve the symmetric capacity $I(W)$ of any given binary-input discrete memoryless channel (B-DMC) $W$. The symmetric capacity is the highest rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Erdal Arikan

This paper studies the effect of discretizing the parametrization of a dictionary used for Matching Pursuit decompositions of signals. Our approach relies on viewing the continuously parametrized dictionary as an embedded manifold in the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Laurent Jacques , Christophe De Vleeschouwer

The problem of channel coding with the erasure option is revisited for discrete memoryless channels. The interplay between the code rate, the undetected and total error probabilities is characterized. Using the information spectrum method,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-22 Masahito Hayashi , Vincent Y. F. Tan