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A new approach to the problem of error correction in communication channels is proposed, in which the input sequence is transformed in such a way that the interdependence of symbols is significantly increased. Then, after the sequence is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Boris Ryabko

Departing from traditional communication theory where decoding algorithms are assumed to perform without error, a system where noise perturbs both computational devices and communication channels is considered here. This paper studies…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-05-31 Lav R. Varshney

Existing studies about ambient backscatter communication mostly assume flat-fading channels. However, frequency-selective channels widely exist in many practical scenarios. Therefore, this paper investigates ambient backscatter…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-03 Chong Zhang , Yao Qin , Gongpu Wang , Ruisi He , Rongfei Fan

Reliable broadcasting data to multiple receivers over lossy wireless channels is challenging due to the heterogeneity of the wireless link conditions. Automatic Repeat-reQuest (ARQ) based retransmission schemes are bandwidth inefficient due…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-12-30 Dong Nguyen , Canh Nguyen , Thuan Duong-Ba , Hung Nguyen , Anh Nguyen , Tuan Tran

Visible light communication (VLC) could provide short-range optical wireless communication together with illumination using LED lighting. However, conventional forward error correction (FEC) codes for reliable communication do not have the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Junbin Fang , Zhen Che , Xiaolong Yu , Zhe Chen , Zoe L. Jiang , Siu-Ming Yiu , Kui Ren , Xiaoqing Tan

Data transmission from superconducting electronic circuits, such as single flux quantum (SFQ) logic, to room-temperature electronics is susceptible to bit errors, which may result from flux trapping, fabrication defects, and process…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-13 Yerzhan Mustafa , Berker Peköz , Selçuk Köse

Interference is usually viewed as an obstacle to communication in wireless networks. This paper proposes a new strategy, compute-and-forward, that exploits interference to obtain significantly higher rates between users in a network. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-06-14 Bobak Nazer , Michael Gastpar

The latency gap between wired and wireless networks poses a challenge in the adoption of wireless technologies in latency-sensitive scenarios. The gap is especially notable in multi-hop communication typical for industrial sensor networks…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Xinlei Liu , Andrey Belogaev , Jonathan Oostvogels , Bingwu Fang , Danny Hughes , Jeroen Famaey

Entanglement-assisted classical communication (EACC) aims to enhance communication systems using entanglement as an additional resource. However, there is a scarcity of explicit protocols designed for finite transmission scenarios, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-04 Tushita Prasad , Markus Grassl

In the context of signal detection in the presence of an unknown time-varying channel parameter, receivers based on the Expectation Propagation (EP) framework appear to be very promising. EP is a message-passing algorithm based on factor…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-09 Elisa Conti , Armando Vannucci , Amina Piemontese , Giulio Colavolpe

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

In this paper, we introduce a new coding and decoding structure for enhancing the reliability and performance of polar codes, specifically at low error rates. We achieve this by concatenating two polar codes in series to create robust…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Mohammed Mensouri , Mustapha Eddahibi

The compute-and-forward framework permits each receiver in a Gaussian network to directly decode a linear combination of the transmitted messages. The resulting linear combinations can then be employed as an end-to-end communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Bobak Nazer , Viveck Cadambe , Vasilis Ntranos , Giuseppe Caire

Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) enables two parties to establish a common secret key that is information-theoretically secure by transmitting random bits that are encoded as qubits and sent over a quantum channel, followed by classical…

Compute-and-forward (CPF) strategy is one category of network coding in which a relay will compute and forward a linear combination of source messages according to the observed channel coefficients, based on the algebraic structure of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-09 Lili Wei , Wen Chen

This work considers a layered coding approach for efficient transmission of data over a wireless block fading channel without transmitter channel state information (CSI), which is connected to a limited capacity reliable link, known as the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Avi Steiner , Shlomo Shamai

The design of codes for feedback-enabled communications has been a long-standing open problem. Recent research on non-linear, deep learning-based coding schemes have demonstrated significant improvements in communication reliability over…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Junghoon Kim , Taejoon Kim , David Love , Christopher Brinton

In this paper, we introduce a reconciliation protocol with a two-step error correction scheme that uses a short-blocklength, low-rate code and a long-blocklength, high-rate code. We simulate the protocol using a short-block-length…

Visible light communication (VLC) provides a short-range optical wireless communication through light-emitting diode (LED) lighting. Light beam flickering and dimming are among the challenges to be addressed in VLC. Conventional methods for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Elie Ngomseu Mambou , Thibaud Tonnellier , Seyyed Ali Hashemi , Warren J. Gross

Inspired by compressive sensing principles, we propose novel error control coding techniques for communication systems. The information bits are encoded in the support and the non-zero entries of a sparse signal. By selecting a dictionary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Madhusudan Kumar Sinha , Arun Pachai Kannu