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Recently, flash memories have become a competitive solution for mass storage. The flash memories have rather different properties compared with the rotary hard drives. That is, the writing of flash memories is constrained, and flash…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Xudong Ma

We consider lossy source compression of a binary symmetric source using polar codes and the low-complexity successive encoding algorithm. It was recently shown by Arikan that polar codes achieve the capacity of arbitrary symmetric…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-03-03 Satish Babu Korada , Rudiger Urbanke

Several types of AL-FEC (Application-Level FEC) codes for the Packet Erasure Channel exist. Random Linear Codes (RLC), where redundancy packets consist of random linear combinations of source packets over a certain finite field, are a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-26 Kazuhisa Matsuzono , Vincent Roca , Hitoshi Asaeda

Locally recoverable (LRC) codes provide a solution to single node failure in distributed storage systems, where it is a very common problem. On the other hand, linear complementary dual (LCD) codes are useful in fault injections attacks on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Charul Rajput , Maheshanand Bhaintwal , Ramakrishna Bandi

We consider the data shuffling problem in a distributed learning system, in which a master node is connected to a set of worker nodes, via a shared link, in order to communicate a set of files to the worker nodes. The master node has access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Adel Elmahdy , Soheil Mohajer

Coded caching is a technique that leverages locally cached contents at the end users to reduce the network's peak-time communication load. Coded caching has been shown to achieve significant performance gains with a centralized placement…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Yinbin Ma , Daniela Tuninetti

We survey coding techniques that enable reliable transmission at rates that approach the capacity of an arbitrary discrete memoryless channel. In particular, we take the point of view of modern coding theory and discuss how recent advances…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-04 Marco Mondelli , S. Hamed Hassani , Rüdiger Urbanke

Semiconstrained systems were recently suggested as a generalization of constrained systems, commonly used in communication and data-storage applications that require certain offending subsequences be avoided. In an attempt to apply…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Ohad Elishco , Tom Meyerovitch , Moshe Schwartz

Locally recoverable (LRC) codes have recently been a focus point of research in coding theory due to their theoretical appeal and applications in distributed storage systems. In an LRC code, any erased symbol of a codeword can be recovered…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Abhishek Agarwal , Alexander Barg , Sihuang Hu , Arya Mazumdar , Itzhak Tamo

Constrained sequence codes have been widely used in modern communication and data storage systems. Sequences encoded with constrained sequence codes satisfy constraints imposed by the physical channel, hence enabling efficient and reliable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Congzhe Cao , Duanshun Li , Ivan Fair

Flash memories intended for SSD and mobile applications need to provide high random I/O performance. This requires using efficient schemes for reading small chunks of data (e.g. 0.5KB - 4KB) from random addresses. Furthermore, in order to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-03-01 Eran Sharon , Idan Alrod

To decode a short linear block code, ordered statics decoding (OSD) and/or the $A^*$ decoding are usually considered. Either OSD or the $A^*$ decoding utilizes the magnitudes of the received symbols to establish the most reliable and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Mao-Chao Lin , Shih-Kai Lee , Pin Lin , Ching-Chang Lin , Chia-Chun Chen , Teng-Yuan Syu , Huang-Chang Lee

Flash memory is a non-volatile computer memory comprised of blocks of cells, wherein each cell is implemented as either NAND or NOR floating gate. NAND flash is currently the most widely used type of flash memory. In a NAND flash memory,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-23 Anxiao , Jiang , Robert Mateescu , Eitan Yaakobi , Jehoshua Bruck , Paul H. Siegel , Alexander Vardy , Jack K. Wolf

Inspired by prior work by Tian and by Cao and Xu, this paper presents an efficient computer-aided framework to characterize the fundamental limits of coded caching systems under the constraint of linear coding. The proposed framework…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Niccolò Brembilla , Yinbin Ma , Pietro Belotti , Federico Malucelli , Daniela Tuninetti

We study the amount of reliable information that can be stored in a DNA-based storage system with noisy sequencing, where each codeword is composed of short DNA molecules. We analyze a concatenated coding scheme, where the outer code is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ran Tamir , Nir Weinberger , Albert Guillén i Fàbregas

In this paper, we propose an encoding scheme for partitioned linear block codes (PLBC) which mask the stuck-at defects in memories. In addition, we derive an upper bound and the estimate of the probability that masking fails. Numerical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-11 Yongjune Kim , B. V. K. Vijaya Kumar

Coded caching (CC) can transform cache memory at network devices into an active communication resource. Prior studies have shown that CC can significantly enhance the achievable Degrees of Freedom (DoF) in multi-input multi-output (MIMO)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Mohammad NaseriTehrani , MohammadJavad Salehi , Antti Tölli

Locally decodable channel codes form a special class of error-correcting codes with the property that the decoder is able to reconstruct any bit of the input message from querying only a few bits of a noisy codeword. It is well known that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-28 Ali Makhdoumi , Shao-Lun Huang , Muriel Medard , Yury Polyanskiy

This paper presents flexible storage codes, a class of error-correcting codes that can recover information from a flexible number of storage nodes. As a result, one can make a better use of the available storage nodes in the presence of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Weiqi Li , Zhiying Wang , Taiting Lu , Hamid Jafarkhani

Erasure codes play an important role in storage systems to prevent data loss. In this work, we study a class of erasure codes called Multi-Erasure Locally Recoverable Codes (ME-LRCs) for flash memory array. Compared to previous related…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Pengfei Huang , Eitan Yaakobi , Paul H. Siegel