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With the expected proliferation of delay constrained applications, future communication technologies are pushed towards using short codes. The performance using short codes cannot be inferred through classical channel capacity analysis,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Nourhan Hesham , Hesham ElSawy , Jahangir Hossain , Anas Chaaban

Coding schemes for several problems in network information theory are constructed starting from point-to-point channel codes that are designed for symmetric channels. Given that the point-to-point codes satisfy certain properties pertaining…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Nadim Ghaddar , Shouvik Ganguly , Lele Wang , Young-Han Kim

Finding the largest code with a given minimum distance is one of the most basic problems in coding theory. In this paper, we study the linear programming bound for codes in the Lee metric. We introduce refinements on the linear programming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-16 Helena Astola , Ioan Tabus

Polar codes are a class of capacity-achieving error correcting codes that have been selected for use in enhanced mobile broadband in the 3GPP 5th generation (5G) wireless standard. Most polar code research examines the original Arikan polar…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Adam Cavatassi , Thibaud Tonnellier , Warren J. Gross

This paper presents a novel semantic-enhanced decoding scheme for transmitting natural language sentences with multiple short block codes over noisy wireless channels. After ASCII source coding, the natural language sentence message is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-15 Jiafu Hao , Chentao Yue , Hao Chang , Branka Vucetic , Yonghui Li

In this paper, we consider the problem of variable packet-error coding, which emerges in network communication scenarios where a source transmits information to a destination through multiple disjoint paths. The objective is to design codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Xiangliang Kong , Xin Wang , Ron M. Roth , Itzhak Tamo

Variable-length feedback coding has the potential to significantly enhance communication reliability in finite block length scenarios by adapting coding strategies based on real-time receiver feedback. Designing such codes, however, is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Wenwei Lai , Yulin Shao , Yu Ding , Deniz Gunduz

This paper focuses on error-correcting codes that can handle a predefined set of specific error patterns. The need for such codes arises in many settings of practical interest, including wireless communication and flash memory systems. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Mira Gonen , Michael Langberg , Alex Sprintson

The minimum distance of a code is an important concept in information theory. Hence, computing the minimum distance of a code with a minimum computational cost is a crucial process to many problems in this area. In this paper, we present…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Fernando Hernando , Francisco D. Igual , Gregorio Quintana-Ortí

For general connections, the problem of finding network codes and optimizing resources for those codes is intrinsically difficult and little is known about its complexity. Most of the existing solutions rely on very restricted classes of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-02 Ying Cui , Muriel Médard , Edmund Yeh , Douglas Leith , Ken Duffy

Redundancy is abundant in Fog networks (i.e., many computing and storage points) and grows linearly with network size. We demonstrate the transformational role of coding in Fog computing for leveraging such redundancy to substantially…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Songze Li , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , A. Salman Avestimehr

The surge in mobile broadband data demands is expected to surpass the available spectrum capacity below 6 GHz. This expectation has prompted the exploration of millimeter wave (mm-wave) frequency bands as a candidate technology for next…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-21 Yahia Shabara , C. Emre Koksal , Eylem Ekici

Space-time codes leverage the availability of multiple antennas to enhance the reliability of communication over wireless channels. While space-time codes have initially been designed with a focus on open-loop systems, recent technological…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Che Lin , Vasanthan Raghavan , Venu Veeravalli

The paper is focused on the tradeoff between performance and decoding complexity per iteration for LDPC codes in terms of their gap (in rate) to capacity. The study of this tradeoff is done via information-theoretic bounds which also enable…

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

We consider a variable-length source coding problem subject to local decodability constraints. In particular, we investigate the blocklength scaling behavior attainable by encodings of $r$-sparse binary sequences, under the constraint that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-09 Ashwin Pananjady , Thomas A. Courtade

Rate-compatible error-correcting codes (ECCs), which consist of a set of extended codes, are of practical interest in both wireless communications and data storage. In this work, we first study the lower bounds for rate-compatible ECCs,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-22 Pengfei Huang , Yi Liu , Xiaojie Zhang , Paul H. Siegel , Erich F. Haratsch

The capacity of line networks with buffer size constraints is an open, but practically important problem. In this paper, the upper bound on the achievable rate of a class of codes, called batched codes, is studied for line networks. Batched…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Shenghao Yang , Jie Wang

In this paper, we present error-correcting codes which are the results of our research on the sub-exceeding functions. For a short and medium distance data transmission (wifi network, bluetooth, cable, ...), we see that these codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Luc Rabefihavanana , Harinaivo Andriatahiny , Toussaint Rabeherimanana

The evaluation of the minimum distance of linear block codes remains an open problem in coding theory, and it is not easy to determine its true value by classical methods, for this reason the problem has been solved in the literature with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-19 Mohamed Askali , Ahmed Azouaoui , Saïd Nouh , Mostafa Belkasmi

SC-LDPC codes with sub-block locality can be decoded locally at the level of sub-blocks that are much smaller than the full code block, thus providing fast access to the coded information. The same code can also be decoded globally using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Homa Esfahanizadeh , Eshed Ram , Yuval Cassuto , Lara Dolecek