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Visible light communication (VLC) could provide short-range optical wireless communication together with illumination using LED lighting. However, conventional forward error correction (FEC) codes for reliable communication do not have the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Junbin Fang , Zhen Che , Xiaolong Yu , Zhe Chen , Zoe L. Jiang , Siu-Ming Yiu , Kui Ren , Xiaoqing Tan

This paper is devoted to the finite-length analysis of turbo decoding over the binary erasure channel (BEC). The performance of iterative belief-propagation (BP) decoding of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes over the BEC can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-05-31 Eirik Rosnes , Øyvind Ytrehus

By a locally recoverable code (LRC), we will in this paper, mean a linear code in which a given code symbol can be recovered by taking a linear combination of at most $r$ other code symbols with $r << k$. A natural extension is to the local…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-07 S. B. Balaji , Ganesh R. Kini , P. Vijay Kumar

We consider communication over binary-input memoryless output-symmetric channels using low-density parity-check codes and message-passing decoding. The asymptotic (in the length) performance of such a combination for a fixed number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-02-12 Satish Babu Korada , Ruediger Urbanke

A linear programming (LP) based framework is presented for obtaining converses for finite blocklength lossy joint source-channel coding problems. The framework applies for any loss criterion, generalizes certain previously known converses,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-04 Sharu Theresa Jose , Ankur A. Kulkarni

In the classic wiretap model, Alice wishes to reliably communicate to Bob without being overheard by Eve who is eavesdropping over a degraded channel. Systems for achieving that physical layer security often rely on an error correction code…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Muriel Médard , Ken R. Duffy

We introduce a new approach to proving that a sequence of deterministic linear codes achieves capacity on an erasure channel under maximum a posteriori decoding. Rather than relying on the precise structure of the codes our method exploits…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-19 Shrinivas Kudekar , Santhosh Kumar , Marco Mondelli , Henry D. Pfister , Eren Şaşoğlu , Rüdiger Urbanke

Deep learning has enabled significant advances in feedback-based channel coding, yet existing learned schemes remain fundamentally limited: they employ fixed block lengths, suffer degraded performance at high rates, and cannot fully exploit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yu Ding , Yulin Shao

Cryptographic algorithms rely on the secrecy of their corresponding keys. On embedded systems with standard CMOS chips, where secure permanent memory such as flash is not available as a key storage, the secret key can be derived from…

We consider transmission of discrete memoryless sources (DMSes) across discrete memoryless channels (DMCs) using variable-length lossy source-channel codes with feedback. The reliability function (optimum error exponent) is shown to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Lan V. Truong , Vincent Y. F. Tan

We present Kovalenko's full-rank limit as a tight lower bound for decoding error probability of LDPC codes and LT codes over BEC. From the limit, we derive a full-rank overhead as a lower bound for stable overheads for successful…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ki-Moon Lee , Hayder Radha , Beom-Jin Kim

In this paper, we provide a new approach to the analytical estimation of the bit-error rate (BER) for convolutional codes for Viterbi decoding in the binary symmetric channel (BSC). The expressions we obtained for lower and upper BER bounds…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Anastasia Kurmukova , Fedor Ivanov , Victor Zyablov

We study finite-blocklength bounds for noisy permutation channels whose reachable output polytope may be lower-dimensional than the output simplex. Existing Gaussian achievability analyses focus on strictly positive full-rank square DMC…

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We develop a novel framework for proving converse theorems for channel coding, which is based on the analysis technique of multicast transmission with an additional auxiliary receiver, which serves as a genie to the original receiver. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Anelia Somekh-Baruch

We analyze the asymptotic performance of nonbinary spatially-coupled low-density parity-check (SC-LDPC) code ensembles defined over the general linear group on the binary erasure channel. In particular, we prove threshold saturation of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-05 Iryna Andriyanova , Alexandre Graell i Amat

We obtain strict upper bounds on the bit transmission rate for communication of Classical bit codewords over Quantum channels. Albeit previous arguments in arXiv: 1804.01797 which have demonstrated that lower bounds can be shown to hold for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Pete Rigas

In this paper we consider lossless source coding for a class of sources specified by the total variational distance ball centred at a fixed nominal probability distribution. The objective is to find a minimax average length source code,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-25 Themistoklis Charalambous , Charalambos D. Charalambous , Sergey Loyka

This work identifies information-theoretic quantities that are closely related to the required list size on average for successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding to implement maximum-likelihood decoding over general binary memoryless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Mustafa Cemil Coşkun , Henry D. Pfister

A rateless code encodes a finite length information word into an infinitely long codeword such that longer prefixes of the codeword can tolerate a larger fraction of errors. A rateless code achieves capacity for a family of channels if, for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-03 Benny Applebaum , Liron David , Guy Even

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