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In this paper, we consider the problem of exchanging channel state information in a wireless network such that a subset of the clients can obtain the complete channel state information of all the links in the network. We first derive the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-18 Xiumin Wang , Chau Yuen

In this paper, we study the problem of relaying a single bit of information across a series of binary symmetric channels, and the associated trade-off between the number of hops $m$, the transmission time $n$, and the error probability. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Yan Hao Ling , Jonathan Scarlett

The problem of error-control in random linear network coding is considered. A ``noncoherent'' or ``channel oblivious'' model is assumed where neither transmitter nor receiver is assumed to have knowledge of the channel transfer…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-03-25 Ralf Koetter , Frank Kschischang

This paper focuses on decentralized composite optimization over networks without a central coordinator. We propose a novel decentralized symmetric ADMM algorithm that incorporates multiple communication rounds within each iteration, derived…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Jinrui Huang , Xueqin Wang , Dong Liu , Jingguo Lan , Runxiong Wu

We consider communication over binary-input memoryless output-symmetric channels using low-density parity-check codes and message-passing decoding. The asymptotic (in the length) performance of such a combination for a fixed number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-02-12 Satish Babu Korada , Ruediger Urbanke

In CPM 2017, Amir et al. introduce a problem, named \emph{approximate string cover} (\textbf{ACP}), motivated by many aplications including coding and automata theory, formal language theory, combinatorics and molecular biology. A…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Alexandru Popa , Andrei Tanasescu

Reducing the threshold voltage of electronic devices increases their sensitivity to electromagnetic radiation dramatically, increasing the probability of changing the memory cells' content. Designers mitigate failures using techniques such…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-14 David Freitas , David Mota , Clailton Lopes , Daniel Simões , Jarbas Silveira , João Mota , César Marcon

We initiate the theoretical study of directory reconciliation, a generalization of document exchange, in which Alice and Bob each have different versions of a set of documents that they wish to synchronize. This problem is designed to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Michael Mitzenmacher , Tom Morgan

Every known communication problem whose randomized communication cost is constant (independent of the input size) can be reduced to $k$-Hamming Distance, that is, solved with a constant number of deterministic queries to some $k$-Hamming…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Yuting Fang , Mika Göös , Nathaniel Harms , Pooya Hatami

We propose a hybrid protocol combining a rectangular error-correcting code - paired with an error-detecting code - and a backward error correction in order to send packages of information over a noisy channel. We depict a linear-time…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Binh-Minh Bui-Xuan , Pierre Meyer , Antoine Roux

Data synchronization is a fundamental problem with applications in diverse fields such as cloud storage, genomics, and distributed systems. This paper addresses the challenge of synchronizing two files, one of which is a subsequence of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Haolun , Ni , Lev Tauz , Ryan Gabrys , Lara Dolecek

We study the mean estimation problem under communication and local differential privacy constraints. While previous work has proposed \emph{order}-optimal algorithms for the same problem (i.e., asymptotically optimal as we spend more bits),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Berivan Isik , Wei-Ning Chen , Ayfer Ozgur , Tsachy Weissman , Albert No

In this paper, we study edit distance (ED) and longest common subsequence (LCS) in the asymmetric streaming model, introduced by Saks and Seshadhri [SS13]. As an intermediate model between the random access model and the streaming model,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Xin Li , Yu Zheng

We formulate a model for intermittent communication that can capture bursty transmissions or a sporadically available channel, where in either case the receiver does not know a priori when the transmissions will occur. Focusing on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-20 Mostafa Khoshnevisan , J Nicholas Laneman

This paper presents a novel semantic-enhanced decoding scheme for transmitting natural language sentences with multiple short block codes over noisy wireless channels. After ASCII source coding, the natural language sentence message is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-15 Jiafu Hao , Chentao Yue , Hao Chang , Branka Vucetic , Yonghui Li

Distributed computing frameworks such as MapReduce and Spark are often used to process large-scale data computing jobs. In wireless scenarios, exchanging data among distributed nodes would seriously suffer from the communication bottleneck…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Youlong Wu , Zhenhao Huang , Kai Yuan , Shuai Ma , Yue Bi

We study the scalability of consensus-based distributed optimization algorithms by considering two questions: How many processors should we use for a given problem, and how often should they communicate when communication is not free?…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-09-06 Konstantinos I. Tsianos , Sean Lawlor , Michael G. Rabbat

This paper investigates single-error-correcting function-correcting codes~(SEFCCs) for the $[2^n-1,\,2^n-1-n,\,3]$-Hamming code membership function~(HCMF) for general $n\geq 2$. Necessary and sufficient conditions for valid parity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Adityawardhan Yadava , Anjana A. Mahesh , Swaraj Sharma Durgi

The algorithmic tasks of computing the Hamming distance between a given pattern of length $m$ and each location in a text of length $n$ is one of the most fundamental algorithmic tasks in string algorithms. Unfortunately, there is evidence…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-12-15 Tsvi Kopelowitz , Ely Porat

Error correcting codes play a central role in digital communication, ensuring that transmitted information can be accurately reconstructed despite channel impairments. Recently, autoencoder (AE) based approaches have gained attention for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Vukan Ninkovic , Dejan Vukobratovic