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In coding theory, handling errors that occur when symbols are inserted or deleted from a transmitted message is a long-standing challenge. Optimising redundancy for insertion and deletion channels remains a key open problem with significant…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Anamika Singh , Abhay Kumar Singh

In this paper, we study how often unique decoding from $t$ insertions or $t$ deletions occurs for error correcting codes. Insertions and deletions frequently occur in synchronization problems and DNA, a medium which is beginning to be used…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-29 Kayvon Mazooji

This work studies problems in data reconstruction, an important area with numerous applications. In particular, we examine the reconstruction of binary and non-binary sequences from synchronization (insertion/deletion-correcting) codes.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Frederic Sala , Ryan Gabrys , Clayton Schoeny , Lara Dolecek

This paper considers insertion and deletion channels with the additional assumption that the channel input sequence is implicitly divided into segments such that at most one edit can occur within a segment. No segment markers are available…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Mahed Abroshan , Ramji Venkataramanan , Albert Guillen i Fabregas

In random-access networks, such as the IEEE 802.11 network, different users may transmit their packets simultaneously, resulting in packet collisions. Traditionally, the collided packets are simply discarded. To improve performance,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-09-22 Lu Lu , Soung Chang Liew , Shengli Zhang

We study coding schemes for error correction in interactive communications. Such interactive coding schemes simulate any $n$-round interactive protocol using $N$ rounds over an adversarial channel that corrupts up to $\rho N$ transmissions.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-17 Mohsen Ghaffari , Bernhard Haeupler

We consider the problem of coding for the substring channel, in which information strings are observed only through their (multisets of) substrings. Due to existing DNA sequencing techniques and applications in DNA-based storage systems,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Yonatan Yehezkeally , Nikita Polyanskii

With advancements in telecommunications, data transmission over increasingly harsher channels that produce synchronisation errors is inevitable. Coding schemes for such channels are available through techniques such as the Davey-MacKay…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Shamin Achari , Ling Cheng

We design low-complexity error correction coding schemes for channels that introduce different types of errors and erasures: on the one hand, the proposed schemes can successfully deal with symbol errors and erasures, and, on the other…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-28 Ron M. Roth , Pascal O. Vontobel

This paper tackles two problems that fall under the study of coding for insertions and deletions. These problems are motivated by several applications, among them is reconstructing strands in DNA-based storage systems. Under this paradigm,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Omer Sabary , Daniella Bar-Lev , Yotam Gershon , Alexander Yucovich , Eitan Yaakobi

We consider the problem of joint source and channel coding of structured data such as natural language over a noisy channel. The typical approach to this problem in both theory and practice involves performing source coding to first…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Nariman Farsad , Milind Rao , Andrea Goldsmith

Sequential decoding, commonly applied to substitution channels, is a sub-optimal alternative to Viterbi decoding with significantly reduced memory costs. In this work, a sequential decoder for convolutional codes over channels that are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Anisha Banerjee , Andreas Lenz , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

This paper considers a binary channel with deletions and insertions, where each input bit is transformed in one of the following ways: it is deleted with probability d, or an extra bit is added after it with probability i, or it is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-10 Ramji Venkataramanan , Sekhar Tatikonda , Kannan Ramchandran

Symbol synchronization refers to the estimation of the start of a symbol interval and is needed for reliable detection. In this paper, we develop several symbol synchronization schemes for molecular communication (MC) systems where we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Vahid Jamali , Arman Ahmadzadeh , Robert Schober

This work constructs codes that are efficiently decodable from a constant fraction of \emph{worst-case} insertion and deletion errors in three parameter settings: (i) Binary codes with rate approaching 1; (ii) Codes with constant rate for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Venkatesan Guruswami , Ray Li

Channel capacities quantify the optimal rates of sending information reliably over noisy channels. Usually, the study of capacities assumes that the circuits which sender and receiver use for encoding and decoding consist of perfectly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-15 Paula Belzig , Matthias Christandl , Alexander Müller-Hermes

The sequence reconstruction problem for insertion/deletion channels has attracted significant attention owing to their applications recently in some emerging data storage systems, such as racetrack memories, DNA-based data storage. Our goal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Van Long Phuoc Pham , Yeow Meng Chee , Kui Cai , Van Khu Vu

We present a set of methods to generate less complex error channels by quantum circuit parallelisation. The resulting errors are simplified as a consequence of their symmetrisation and randomisation. Initially, the case of a single error…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-26 James Mills , Debasis Sadhukhan , Elham Kashefi

The deletion channel is known to be a notoriously diffcult channel to design error-correction codes for. In spite of this difficulty, there are some beautiful code constructions which give some intuition about the channel and about what…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Kedar Tatwawadi , Shubham Chandak

As sensing and instrumentation play an increasingly important role in systems controlled over wired and wireless networks, the need to better understand delay-sensitive communication becomes a prime issue. Along these lines, this article…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Parimal Parag , Richard D. Wesel