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Motivated by modern network communication applications which require low latency, we study codes that correct erasures with low decoding delay. We provide a simple explicit construction that yields convolutional codes that can correct both…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Serge Kas Hanna , Zhiyuan Tan , Wen Xu , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

An erasure channel with a fixed alphabet size $q$, where $q \gg 1$, is studied. It is proved that over any erasure channel (with or without memory), Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) codes achieve the minimum probability of error (assuming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-06-06 Shervan Fashandi , Shahab Oveis Gharan , Amir K. Khandani

This paper considers multiplexing two sequences of messages with two different decoding delays over a packet erasure channel. In each time slot, the source constructs a packet based on the current and previous messages and transmits the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Silas L. Fong , Ashish Khisti , Baochun Li , Wai-Tian Tan , Xiaoqing Zhu , John Apostolopoulos

This paper investigates adaptive streaming codes over a three-node relayed network. In this setting, a source transmits a sequence of message packets through a relay under a delay constraint of $T$ time slots per packet. The source-to-relay…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Muhammad Ahmad Kaleem , Gustavo Kasper Facenda , Ashish Khisti

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

Streaming erasure codes encode a source stream to guarantee that each source packet is recovered within a fixed delay at the receiver over a burst-erasure channel. This paper introduces diversity embedded streaming erasure codes (DE-SCo),…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-07-13 Ahmed Badr , Ashish Khisti , Emin Martinian

In a real-time transmission scenario, messages are transmitted through a channel that is subject to packet loss. The destination must recover the messages within the required deadline. In this paper, we consider a setup where two different…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Dingli Yuan , Zhiquan Tan , Zhongyi Huang

The Gilbert-Elliot (GE) channel is a commonly-accepted model for packet erasures in networks. Streaming codes are a class of packet-level erasure codes designed to provide reliable communication over the GE channel. The design of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Myna Vajha , Vinayak Ramkumar , Mayank Jhamtani , P. Vijay Kumar

MDS codes are erasure-correcting codes that can correct the maximum number of erasures for a given number of redundancy or parity symbols. If an MDS code has $r$ parities and no more than $r$ erasures occur, then by transmitting all the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-25 Zhiying Wang , Itzhak Tamo , Jehoshua Bruck

In this paper, we investigate the optimal tradeoff between source and channel coding for channels with bit or packet erasure. Upper and Lower bounds on the optimal channel coding rate are computed to achieve minimal end-to-end distortion.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Sriram N. Kizhakkemadam , Panos Papamichalis , Mandyam Srinath , Dinesh Rajan

MDS (maximum distance separable) array codes are widely used in storage systems due to their computationally efficient encoding and decoding procedures. An MDS code with r redundancy nodes can correct any r erasures by accessing (reading)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-07-11 Zhiying Wang , Itzhak Tamo , Jehoshua Bruck

We study the capacity limits of real-time streaming over burst-erasure channels. A stream of source packets must be sequentially encoded and the resulting channel packets must be transmitted over a two-receiver burst-erasure broadcast…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Ahmed Badr , Devin Lui , Ashish Khisti

In this paper, we introduce a new practical and general method for solving the main problem of designing the capacity approaching, optimal rate, irregular low-density parity-check (LDPC) code ensemble over binary erasure channel (BEC).…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 H. Tavakoli , M. Ahmadian Attari , M. Reza Peyghami

The high repair cost of (n,k) Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) erasure codes has recently motivated a new class of codes, called Regenerating Codes, that optimally trade off storage cost for repair bandwidth. On one end of this spectrum of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-04-19 Changho Suh , Kannan Ramchandran

We construct constant-sized ensembles of linear error-correcting codes over any fixed alphabet that can correct a given fraction of adversarial erasures at rates approaching the Singleton bound arbitrarily closely. We provide several…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Yeyuan Chen , Mahdi Cheraghchi , Nikhil Shagrithaya

We study segmented burst-deletion channels motivated by the observation that synchronization errors commonly occur in a bursty manner in real-world settings. In this channel model, transmitted sequences are implicitly divided into…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Yajuan Liu , Tolga M. Duman

This paper investigates low-latency streaming codes for a three-node relay network. The source transmits a sequence of messages (streaming messages) to the destination through the relay between them, where the first-hop channel from the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Silas L. Fong , Ashish Khisti , Baochun Li , Wai-Tian Tan , Xiaoqing Zhu , John Apostolopoulos

This paper investigates adaptive streaming codes over a three-node relayed network. In this setting, a source node transmits a sequence of message packets to a destination through a relay. The source-to-relay and relay-to-destination links…

MDS array codes are widely used in storage systems due to their computationally efficient encoding and decoding procedures. An MDS code with $r$ redundancy nodes can correct any $r$ node erasures by accessing all the remaining information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-04 Zhiying Wang , Itzhak Tamo , Jehoshua Bruck

We study optimal reconstruction codes over the multiple-burst substitution channel. Our main contribution is establishing a trade-off between the error-correction capability of the code, the number of reads used in the reconstruction…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Wenjun Yu , Yubo Sun , Zixiang Xu , Gennian Ge , Moshe Schwartz