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An analog source is to be transmitted across a Gaussian channel in more than one channel use per source symbol. This paper derives a lower bound on the asymptotic mean squared error for a strategy that consists of repeatedly quantizing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Marius Kleiner , Bixio Rimoldi

Convexity properties of error rates of a class of decoders, including the ML/min-distance one as a special case, are studied for arbitrary constellations, bit mapping and coding. Earlier results obtained for the AWGN channel are extended to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Sergey Loyka , Victoria Kostina , Francois Gagnon

Building on the recent coded-caching breakthrough by Maddah-Ali and Niesen, the work here considers the $K$-user cache-aided wireless multi-antenna (MISO) symmetric broadcast channel (BC) with random fading and imperfect feedback, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-26 Jingjing Zhang , Petros Elia

This paper addresses the estimation of signals with sublinear sparsity sent over the additive white Gaussian noise channel. This fundamental problem arises in designing denoisers used in message-passing algorithms for sublinear sparsity.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Keigo Takeuchi

The optimal decoder achieving the outage capacity under imperfect channel estimation is investigated. First, by searching into the family of nearest neighbor decoders, which can be easily implemented on most practical coded modulation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Pablo Piantanida , Sajad Sadough , Pierre Duhamel

Different choices of quantum error-correcting codes can reduce the demands on the physical hardware needed to build a quantum computer. To achieve the full potential of a code, we must develop practical decoding algorithms that can correct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Zohar Schwartzman-Nowik , Benjamin J. Brown

In diffusion based molecular communication, the intersymbol interference (ISI) is an important reason for system performance degradation, which is caused by the random movement, out-of-order arrival and indistinguishability of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Hui Li , Qingchao Li

A lower bound on the probability of decoding error of quantum communication channel is presented. The strong converse to the quantum channel coding theorem is shown immediately from the lower bound. It is the same as Arimoto's method exept…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Tomohiro Ogawa , Hiroshi Nagaoka

Efficient and realistic error decoding is crucial for fault-tolerant quantum computation (FTQC) on near-term devices. While decoding is a classical post-processing task, its effectiveness depends on accurately modeling quantum noise, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-10 Yi Tian , Y. Zheng , Xiaoting Wang , Ching-Yi Lai

Polyanskiy proposed a framework for the unsourced multiple access channel (MAC) problem where users employ a common codebook in the finite blocklength regime. However, existing approaches handle channel noise before the joint decoder. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yuming Han , Yuxin Long

When information is to be transmitted over an unknown, possibly unreliable channel, an erasure option at the decoder is desirable. Using constant-composition random codes, we propose a generalization of Csiszar and Korner's Maximum Mutual…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Pierre Moulin

A unified framework to obtain all known lower bounds (random coding, typical random coding and expurgated bound) on the reliability function of a point-to-point discrete memoryless channel (DMC) is presented. By using a similar idea for a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-10-08 Ali Nazari , Achilleas Anastasopoulos , S. Sandeep Pradhan

The common approach of designing a communication device is to maximize a well-defined objective function, e.g., the channel capacity and the cut-off rate. We propose easy-to-implement solutions for Gaussian channels that approximate the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-24 Qian Yu

In this paper, a new wiretap channel model is proposed, where the legitimate transmitter and receiver communicate over a discrete memoryless channel. The wiretapper has perfect access to a fixed-length subset of the transmitted codeword…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-25 Mohamed Nafea , Aylin Yener

Rank metric codes and constant-dimension codes (CDCs) have been considered for error control in random network coding. Since decoder errors are more detrimental to system performance than decoder failures, in this paper we investigate the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-04-01 Maximilien Gadouleau , Zhiyuan Yan

We study the problem of channel resolvability for fixed i.i.d. input distributions and discrete memoryless channels (DMCs), and derive the strong converse theorem for any DMCs that are not necessarily full rank. We also derive the optimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-23 Shun Watanabe , Masahito Hayashi

We investigated a suitable auxiliary channel setting and the gap between Q-factors with hard and soft demapping. The system margin definition should be reconsidered for systems employing complex coded modulation with soft forward error…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-25 Tsuyoshi Yoshida , Mikael Mazur , Jochen Schröder , Magnus Karlsson , Erik Agrell

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 this paper we consider the identification (ID) via multiple access channels (MACs). In the general MAC the ID capacity region includes the ordinary transmission (TR) capacity region. In this paper we discuss the converse coding theorem.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-12 Yasutada Oohama

We provide a novel upper-bound on Witsenhausen's rate, the rate required in the zero-error analogue of the Slepian-Wolf problem; our bound is given in terms of a new information-theoretic functional defined on a certain graph. We then use…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-01-25 Benjamin G. Kelly , Aaron B. Wagner