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Linear computation coding is concerned with the compression of multidimensional linear functions, i.e. with reducing the computational effort of multiplying an arbitrary vector to an arbitrary, but known, constant matrix. This paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Hans Rosenberger , Johanna S. Fröhlich , Ali Bereyhi , Ralf R. Müller

We consider the multi-access coded caching problem, which contains a central server with $N$ files, $K$ caches with $M$ units of memory each and $K$ users where each one is connected to $L (\geq 1)$ consecutive caches, with a cyclic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Srinivas Reddy Kota , Nikhil Karamchandani

We describe a novel extension of subspace codes for noncoherent networks, suitable for use when the network is viewed as a communication system that introduces both dimension and symbol errors. We show that when symbol erasures occur in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-25 Vitaly Skachek , Olgica Milenkovic , Angelia Nedic

In network coding, information transmission often encounters wiretapping attacks. Secure network coding is introduced to prevent information from being leaked to adversaries. For secure linear network codes (SLNCs), the required field size…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-22 Xuan Guang , Jiyong Lu , Fang-Wei Fu

In Federated Learning (FL) paradigm, a parameter server (PS) concurrently communicates with distributed participating clients for model collection, update aggregation, and model distribution over multiple rounds, without touching private…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Xiaoxin Su , Yipeng Zhou , Laizhong Cui , John C. S. Lui , Jiangchuan Liu

In the practical network communications, many internal nodes in the network are required to not only transmit messages but decode source messages. For different applications, four important classes of linear network codes in network coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-02 Xuan Guang , Fang-Wei Fu

In this paper, we consider a distributed reception scenario where a transmitter broadcasts a signal to multiple geographically separated receive nodes over fading channels, and each node forwards a few bits representing a processed version…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-19 Junil Choi , David J. Love , Patrick Bidigare

With the recent advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs), generating functionally correct code has become less complicated for a wide array of developers. While using LLMs has sped up the functional development process, it poses a heavy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Nafis Tanveer Islam , Mohammad Bahrami Karkevandi , Peyman Najafirad

We study two fundamental problems in communication, Document Exchange (DE) and Error Correcting Code (ECC). In the first problem, two parties hold two strings, and one party tries to learn the other party's string through communication. In…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Kuan Cheng , Xin Li

This paper studies a special class of multicast index coding problems where a sender transmits messages to multiple receivers, each with some side information. Here, each receiver knows a unique message a priori, and there is no restriction…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-12-04 Lawrence Ong , Chin Keong Ho

It is known that there exists a network which does not have a scalar linear solution over any finite field but has a vector linear solution when message dimension is $2$ [3]. It is not known whether this result can be generalized for an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Niladri Das , Brijesh Kumar Rai

Real-time streaming communication requires a high quality of service despite contending with packet loss. Streaming codes are a class of codes best suited for this setting. A key challenge for streaming codes is that they operate in an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Michael Rudow , K. V. Rashmi

We propose two application-layer coding schemes for delay-constrained point-to-point packet communications with restrictions on the transmitter's maximum duty-cycle. The schemes operate over GF(2) and utilize intermittently available…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Siddhartha S. Borkotoky , Udo Schilcher , Christian Raffelsberger

This paper presents a general approach for optimizing the number of symbols in increments (packets of incremental redundancy) in a feedback communication system with a limited number of increments. This approach is based on a tight normal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-17 Kasra Vakilinia , Sudarsan V. S. Ranganathan , Dariush Divsalar , Richard D. Wesel

We describe and explore so-called linear hash functions and show how they can be used to build error detection and correction codes. The method can be applied for different types of errors (for example, burst errors). When the method is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Boris Ryabko

In this paper we study function-correcting codes, a new class of codes designed to protect the function evaluation of a message against errors. We show that FCCs are equivalent to irregular-distance codes, i.e., codes that obey some given…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Andreas Lenz , Rawad Bitar , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Eitan Yaakobi

This work is motivated by the problem of error correction in bit-shift channels with the so-called $ (d,k) $ input constraints (where successive $ 1 $'s are required to be separated by at least $ d $ and at most $ k $ zeros, $ 0 \leq d < k…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Mladen Kovačević

We consider the problem of coded distributed computing where a large linear computational job, such as a matrix multiplication, is divided into $k$ smaller tasks, encoded using an $(n,k)$ linear code, and performed over $n$ distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Mohammad Vahid Jamali , Mahdi Soleymani , Hessam Mahdavifar

Many problems of interest for cyber-physical network systems can be formulated as Mixed-Integer Linear Programs in which the constraints are distributed among the agents. In this paper we propose a distributed algorithmic framework to solve…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-05 Andrea Testa , Alessandro Rucco , Giuseppe Notarstefano

Inspired by mobile satellite communication systems and the important and prevalent applications of computational tasks, we consider a distributed source coding model for compressing vector-linear functions, which consists of multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Xuan Guang , Xiufang Sun , Ruze Zhang