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Relay networks having $n$ source-to-destination pairs and $m$ half-duplex relays, all operating in the same frequency band in the presence of block fading, are analyzed. This setup has attracted significant attention and several relaying…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Shengshan Cui , Alexander M. Haimovich , Oren Somekh , H. Vincent Poor

The problem of finding network codes for general connections is inherently difficult in capacity constrained networks. Resource minimization for general connections with network coding is further complicated. Existing methods for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-05 Ying Cui , Muriel Médard , Fan Lai , Edmund Yeh , Douglas Leith , Ken Duffy , Dhaivat Pandya

A new channel coding approach was proposed in [1] for random multiple access communication over the discrete-time memoryless channel. The coding approach allows users to choose their communication rates independently without sharing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Zheng Wang , Jie Luo

Next-generation wireless communication systems must support ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) service for mission-critical applications. Meeting stringent URLLC requirements is challenging, especially for two-hop cooperative…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Hyemin Yu , Hong-Chuan Yang

While Separate Source-Channel Coding (SSCC) retains the practical benefits of modular system design, its effectiveness in noisy text transmission is fundamentally constrained by the fragility of autoregressive source decoding. In low-SNR…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Ziqiong Wang , Rongpeng Li

In this paper we investigate the optimal latency of communications. Focusing on fixed rate communication without any feedback channel, this paper encompasses low-latency strategies with which one hop and multi-hop communication issues are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-05 Minh Au , Francois Gagnon

In this paper, we deal with the problem of jointly determining the optimal coding strategy and the scheduling decisions when receivers obtain layered data from multiple servers. The layered data is encoded by means of Prioritized Random…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Nikolaos Thomos , Eymen Kurdoglu , Pascal Frossard , Mihaela Van der Schaar

Network coding is known to improve the throughput and the resilience to losses in most network scenarios. In a practical network scenario, however, the accurate modeling of the traffic is often too complex and/or infeasible. The goal is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-08-25 Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Amir H. Banihashemi

Inspired by several delay-bounded mission-critical applications, this paper investigates chase-combining-based hybrid automatic repeat request (CC-HARQ) protocols to achieve high reliability in delay-constrained applications. A salient…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Jaya Goel , J. Harshan

Rigorous uncertainty quantification is essential for the safe deployment of autonomous systems in unconstrained environments. Conformal Prediction (CP) provides a distribution-free framework for this task, yet its standard formulations rely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Renukanandan Tumu , Aditya Singh , Rahul Mangharam

In this paper, we study the multicast completion and decoding delay minimization problems of instantly decodable network coding (IDNC) in the case of lossy feedback. In such environments, the sender falls into uncertainties about packet…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-07-16 Sameh Sorour , Ahmed Douik , Shahrokh Valaee , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Physical-layer network coding (PNC) can increase end-to-end throughput in bi-directional multi-hop underwater acoustic (UWA) networks. However, multipath delay spread and Doppler-induced inter-carrier interference (ICI) in UWA channels can…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Gewei Zhang , Deqing Wang , Lizhao You , Xiangming Cai , Liqun Fu

This paper introduces a random modulation technique that is decoupled from the channel matrix, allowing it to be applied to arbitrary norm-bounded and spectrally convergent channel matrices. The proposed random modulation constructs an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Lei Liu , Yuhao Chi , Shunqi Huang

The cooperative automatic repeat request (C-ARQ) is a link layer relaying protocol which exploits the spatial diversity and allows the relay node to retransmit the source data packet to the destination, when the latter is unable to decode…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-02-17 Morteza Mardani , Jalil S. Harsini , Farshad Lahouti

This paper presents a cross-layer approach to jointly design adaptive modulation and coding (AMC) at the physical layer and cooperative truncated automatic repeat request (ARQ) protocol at the data link layer. We first derive an exact…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Morteza Mardani , Jalil S. Harsini , Farshad Lahouti , Behrouz Eliasi

Coded distributed computing (CDC) is a new technique proposed with the purpose of decreasing the intense data exchange required for parallelizing distributed computing systems. Under the famous MapReduce paradigm, this coded approach has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Federico Brunero , Petros Elia

Multicast remains a fundamental mechanism for scalable content distribution, yet existing approaches face critical limitations. Traditional multicast trees suffer from path redundancy and inefficient utilization of network resources, while…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Tomas Lestayo Martinez , Manuel Fernandez Veiega Veiga

To combat the detrimental effects of the variability in wireless channels, we consider cross-layer rate adaptation based on limited feedback. In particular, based on limited feedback in the form of link-layer acknowledgements (ACK) and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-11-21 C. Emre Koksal , Philip Schniter

In this paper, we consider the joint opportunistic routing and channel assignment problem in multi-channel multi-radio (MCMR) cognitive radio networks (CRNs) for improving aggregate throughput of the secondary users. We first present the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yang Qin , Xiaoxiong Zhong , Yuanyuan Yang , Yanlin Li , Li Li

Semantic communications (SemComs) have emerged as a promising paradigm for joint data and task-oriented transmissions, combining the demands for both the bit-accurate delivery and end-to-end (E2E) distortion minimization. However, current…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Dongxu Li , Kai Yuan , Jianhao Huang , Chuan Huang , Xiaoqi Qin , Shuguang Cui , Ping Zhang