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Some emerging 5G and beyond use-cases impose stringent latency constraints, which necessitates a paradigm shift towards finite blocklength performance analysis. In contrast to Shannon capacity-achieving codes, the codeword length in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Nourhan Hesham , Anas Chaaban , Hesham ElSawy , Jahangir Hossain

In this letter, we evaluate the finite-length performance of network coding when using either random or structured encoding matrices. First, we present our novel construction of structured network codes over Fq (q = 2^m) using Pascal…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Tan Do-Duy , M. Angeles Vazquez-Castro

The performance of an error correcting code is evaluated by its error probability, rate, and en/decoding complexity. The performance of a series of codes is evaluated by, as the block lengths approach infinity, whether their error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Hsin-Po Wang

This letter introduces a novel channel coding design framework for short-length codewords that permits balancing the tradeoff between the bit error rate floor and waterfall region by modifying a single real-valued parameter. The proposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Mikel Hernaez , Pedro M. crespo , Javier Del Ser

Network coding is a highly efficient data dissemination mechanism for wireless networks. Since network coded information can only be recovered after delivering a sufficient number of coded packets, the resulting decoding delay can become…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Rui A. Costa , Daniele Munaretto , Joerg Widmer , Joao Barros

This paper focuses on a particular transmission scheme called local network coding, which has been reported to provide significant performance gains in practical wireless networks. The performance of this scheme strongly depends on the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Petteri Mannersalo , Georgios S. Paschos , Lazaros Gkatzikis

We consider a communication problem in which the receiver must first detect the presence of an information packet and, if detected, decode the message carried within it. We present general nonasymptotic upper and lower bounds on the maximum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Alejandro Lancho , Johan Östman , Giuseppe Durisi

Traditional asymptotic information-theoretic studies of the fundamental limits of wireless communication systems primarily rely on some ideal assumptions, such as infinite blocklength and vanishing error probability. While these assumptions…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Junyuan Gao , Shuao Chen , Yongpeng Wu , Liang Liu , Giuseppe Caire , H. Vincent Poor , Wenjun Zhang

This paper reviews the potential channel decoding techniques for ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC). URLLC is renowned for its stringent requirements including ultra-reliability, low end-to-end transmission latency, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Chentao Yue , Vera Miloslavskaya , Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam , Branka Vucetic , Yonghui Li

The design of codes for feedback-enabled communications has been a long-standing open problem. Recent research on non-linear, deep learning-based coding schemes have demonstrated significant improvements in communication reliability over…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Junghoon Kim , Taejoon Kim , David Love , Christopher Brinton

In this work, we address the low-complexity construction of shortened and punctured polar codes from a unified view. While several independent puncturing and shortening designs were attempted in the literature, our goal is a unique,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Valerio Bioglio , Frederic Gabry , Ingmar Land

Link and node failures are two common fundamental problems that affect operational networks. Protection of communication networks against such failures is essential for maintaining network reliability and performance. Network protection…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-08-26 Salah A. Aly , Ahmed E. Kamal , Anwar I. Walid

In order to achieve fault tolerance, highly reliable system often require the ability to detect errors as soon as they occur and prevent the speared of erroneous information throughout the system. Thus, the need for codes capable of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-02-08 Muzhir Al-Ani , Qeethara Al-Shayea

Efficient decoding is crucial to high-throughput and power-sensitive wireless communication scenarios. A theoretical analysis of the performance-complexity tradeoff toward low-complexity decoding is required for a better understanding of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Qingqing Peng , Dawei Yin , Dongxu Chang , Yuan Li , Huazi Zhang , Guiying Yan , Guanghui Wang

Optimal block designs in small blocks are explored when the treatments have a natural ordering and interest lies in comparing consecutive pairs of treatments. We first develop an approximate theory which leads to a convenient multiplicative…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-05-20 S. Huda , Rahul Mukerjee

Low complexity error correction code is a key enabler for next generation ultra-reliable low-latency communications (xURLLC) in six generation (6G). Against this background, this paper proposes a decoding scheme for linear block code by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-11 Di Zhang , Yinglei Yang , Zilong Liu , Shaobo Jia , Kyungchun Lee , Zhirong Zhang

In this work, the geometric relation between space time block code design for the coherent channel and its non-coherent counterpart is exploited to get an analogue of the information theoretic inequality $I(X;S)\le I((X,H);S)$ in terms of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Oliver Henkel

This paper studies the outage probability and the throughput of amplify-and-forward relay networks with wireless information and energy transfer. We use some recent results on finite block-length codes to analyze the system performance in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-21 Mahdi Haghifam , Behrooz Makki , Masoumeh Nasiri-Kenari , Tommy Svensson , Michele Zorzi

Exact queueing analysis of erasure networks with network coding in a finite buffer regime is an extremely hard problem due to the large number of states in the network. In such networks, packets are lost due to either link erasures or due…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-12-14 Nima Torabkhani , Badri N. Vellambi , Faramarz Fekri

We define multi-block interleaved codes as codes that allow reading information from either a small sub-block or from a larger full block. The former offers faster access, while the latter provides better reliability. We specify the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-26 Yuval Cassuto , Evyatar Hemo , Sven Puchinger , Martin Bossert