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Batched network coding (BNC) is a low-complexity solution to network transmission in multi-hop packet networks with packet loss. BNC encodes the source data into batches of packets. As a network coding scheme, the intermediate nodes perform…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Hoover H. F. Yin , Ka Hei Ng , Allen Z. Zhong , Raymond W. Yeung , Shenghao Yang , Ian Y. Y. Chan

For several years, the completion time and decoding delay problems in Instantly Decodable Network Coding (IDNC) were considered separately and were thought to completely act against each other. Recently, some works aimed to balance the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-04 Ahmed Douik , Sameh Sorour , Mohamed-Slim Alouini , Tareq Y. Al-Naffour

Sparse random linear network coding (SRLNC) used as a class of erasure codes to ensure the reliability of multicast communications has been widely investigated. However, an exact expression for the decoding success probability of SRLNC is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-27 WenLin Chen , Fang Lu , Yan Dong

A standard assumption in the design of ultra-reliable low-latency communication systems is that the duration between message arrivals is larger than the number of channel uses before the decoding deadline. Nevertheless, this assumption…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Homa Nikbakht , Malcolm Egan , Jean-Marie Gorce , H. Vincent Poor

We introduce a method for securely delivering a set of messages to a group of clients over a broadcast erasure channel where each client is interested in a distinct message. Each client is able to obtain its own message but not the others'.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-08 Shahriar Etemadi Tajbakhsh , Parastoo Sadeghi , Rodney Kennedy

This paper considers the downlink traffic from a base station to two different clients. When assuming infinite backlog, it is known that inter-session network coding (INC) can significantly increase the throughput of each flow. However, the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-10-08 Wei-Cheng Kuo , Chih-Chun Wang

This paper studies caching in (K+L-1) x K partially connected wireless linear networks, where each of the K receivers locally communicates with L out of the K+L-1 transmitters, and caches are at all nodes. The goal is to design caching and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Fan Xu , Meixia Tao , Tiankai Zheng

This paper is interested in maximizing the total throughput of cloud radio access networks (CRANs) in which multiple radio remote heads (RRHs) are connected to a central computing unit known as the cloud. The transmit frame of each RRH…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-17 Mohammed S. Al-Abiad , Ahmed Douik , Sameh Sorour , MD Jahangir Hossain

The downlink of a multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) broadcast channel (BC) is considered, where each receiver is equipped with a single antenna and the transmitter performs nonlinear Dirty-Paper Coding (DPC). We present an efficient…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Thomas Michel , Gerhard Wunder

The uplink of a cloud radio access network architecture is studied in which decoding at the cloud takes place via network function virtualization on commercial off-the-shelf servers. In order to mitigate the impact of straggling decoders in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Malihe Aliasgari , Jörg Kliewer , Osvaldo Simeone

Real-time applications require latencies on the order of a millisecond with very high reliabilities, paralleling the requirements for high-performance industrial control. Current wireless technologies like WiFi, Bluetooth, LTE, etc. are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-15 Vasuki Narasimha Swamy , Paul Rigge , Gireeja Ranade , Anant Sahai , Borivoje Nikolic

For several years, the completion time and the decoding delay problems in Instantly Decodable Network Coding (IDNC) were considered separately and were thought to completely act against each other. Recently, some works aimed to balance the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-15 Ahmed Douik , Sameh Sorour , Mohamed-Slim Alouini , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

In this paper, we study the problem of reducing the delay of downloading data from cloud storage systems by leveraging multiple parallel threads, assuming that the data has been encoded and stored in the clouds using fixed rate forward…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Shengbo Chen , Yin Sun , Ulas C. Kozat , Longbo Huang , Prasun Sinha , Guanfeng Liang , Xin Liu , Ness B. Shroff

For ultra-reliable, low-latency communications (URLLC) applications such as mission-critical industrial control and extended reality (XR), it is important to ensure the communication quality of individual packets. Prior studies have…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Zhibo Meng , Hongwei Zhang , James Gross

We study the following semi-deterministic setting of the joint source-channel coding problem: a deterministic source sequence (a.k.a. individual sequence) is transmitted via a memoryless channel, using delay-limited encoder and decoder,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Neri Merhav

We show in this work that reinforcement learning can be successfully applied to decoding short to moderate length sparse graph-based channel codes. Specifically, we focus on low-density parity check (LDPC) codes, which for example have been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Salman Habib , Allison Beemer , Joerg Kliewer

We study the problem of serving randomly arriving and delay-sensitive traffic over a multi-channel communication system with time-varying channel states and unknown statistics. This problem deviates from the classical…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Semih Cayci , Atilla Eryilmaz

This paper investigates streaming codes over three-node relay networks under burst packet erasures with a delay constraint $T$. In any sliding window of $T+1$ consecutive packets, the source-to-relay and relay-to-destination channels may…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zhipeng Li , Wenjie Ma , Zhifang Zhang

Ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC) demand decoding algorithms that simultaneously offer high reliability and low complexity under stringent latency constraints. While iterative decoding schemes for LDPC and Polar codes offer…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-30 Enrico Testi , Enrico Paolini

Next-generation networks aim to provide performance guarantees to real-time interactive services that require timely and cost-efficient packet delivery. In this context, the goal is to reliably deliver packets with strict deadlines imposed…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Ozan Aygün , Vincenzo Norman Vitale , Antonia M. Tulino , Hao Feng , Elza Erkip , Jaime Llorca