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A new construction is proposed for low density parity check (LDPC) codes using quadratic permutation polynomials over finite integer rings. The associated graphs for the new codes have both algebraic and pseudo-random nature, and the new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Oscar Y. Takeshita

We consider the problem of constructing deletion correcting codes over a binary alphabet and take a graph theoretic view. An $n$-bit $s$-deletion correcting code is an independent set in a particular graph. We propose constructing such a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-20 Daniel Cullina , Ankur A. Kulkarni , Negar Kiyavash

In order to achieve fault tolerance, highly reliable system often require the ability to detect errors as soon as they occur and prevent the speared of erroneous information throughout the system. Thus, the need for codes capable of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-02-08 Muzhir Al-Ani , Qeethara Al-Shayea

Distributed storage systems need to store data redundantly in order to provide some fault-tolerance and guarantee system reliability. Different coding techniques have been proposed to provide the required redundancy more efficiently than…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Lluis Pamies-Juarez , Henk D. L. Hollmann , Frédérique Oggier

The hull of a linear code (i.e., a finite field vector space)~\({\mathcal C}\) is defined to be the vector space formed by the intersection of~\({\mathcal C}\) with its dual~\({\mathcal C}^{\perp}.\) Constructing vector spaces with a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Ghurumuruhan Ganesan

Flag codes are a class of multishot network codes comprising sequences of nested subspaces (flags) within the vector space $\mathbb{F}_q^n$, where $q$ is a prime power. In this paper, we propose a family of constructions for full flag codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Xiang Han , Xinran Li , Gang Wang

In this paper, we investigate the performance of a class of spatially coupled codes, namely partially information coupled turbo codes (PIC-TCs) over the binary erasure channel (BEC). This class of codes enjoy flexible code rate adjustment…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Min Qiu , Xiaowei Wu , Yixuan Xie , Jinhong Yuan

Locally repairable codes have been investigated extensively in recent years due to practical application in distributed storage as well as theoretical interest. However, not much work on asymptotical behavior of locally repairable codes has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Xudong Li , Liming Ma , Chaoping Xing

Error-correcting codes resilient to synchronization errors such as insertions and deletions are known as insdel codes. Due to their important applications in DNA storage and computational biology, insdel codes have recently become a focal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-21 Xiangliang Kong , Itzhak Tamo , Hengjia Wei

Memory encoding by cyclic shear is a reliable process to store information in jammed solids, yet its underlying mechanism and its connection to the amorphous structure are not fully understood. When a jammed sphere packing is repeatedly…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-10-27 Francesco Arceri , Eric I. Corwin , Varda F. Hagh

Using combinatorial arguments, we determine an upper bound on achievable rates of stabilizer codes used over the quantum erasure channel. This allows us to recover the no-cloning bound on the capacity of the quantum erasure channel, R is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-29 Nicolas Delfosse , Gilles Zémor

We introduce a new class of exact Minimum-Bandwidth Regenerating (MBR) codes for distributed storage systems, characterized by a low-complexity uncoded repair process that can tolerate multiple node failures. These codes consist of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-10-14 Salim El Rouayheb , Kannan Ramchandran

The existence of self-correcting quantum memories in three dimensions is a long-standing open question at the interface between quantum computing and many-body physics. We take the perspective that large contributions to the entropy arising…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Brenden Roberts , Jin Ming Koh , Yi Tan , Norman Y. Yao

In this work, constructions of ordered covering arrays are discussed and applied to obtain new upper bounds on covering codes in Rosenbloom-Tsfasman spaces (RT spaces), improving or extending some previous results.

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-08-03 André Guerino Castoldi , Emerson Luiz do Monte Carmelo , Lucia Moura , Daniel Panario , Brett Stevens

To better understand the wireless network design with a large number of hops, we investigate a line network formed by general discrete memoryless channels (DMCs), which may not be identical. Our focus lies on Generalized Batched Network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Jie Wang , Shenghao Yang , Yanyan Dong , Yiheng Zhang

We introduce the class of partition-balanced families of codes, and show how to exploit their combinatorial invariants to obtain upper and lower bounds on the number of codes that have a prescribed property. In particular, we derive precise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Eimear Byrne , Alberto Ravagnani

The problem of three-user multiple-access channel (MAC) with noiseless feedback is investigated. A new coding strategy is presented. The coding scheme builds upon the natural extension of the Cover-Leung (CL) scheme; and uses quasi-linear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Mohsen Heidari , Farhad Shirani , S. Sandeep Pradhan

We introduce function-correcting partition codes (FCPCs), which are a natural generalization of function-correcting codes (FCCs). An FCPC is defined directly on a partition of the message space, rather than on a specific target function. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Charul Rajput , B. Sundar Rajan , Ragnar Freij-Hollanti , Camilla Hollanti

Folded Reed-Solomon codes, introduced by Guruswami and Rudra in 2007, have been shown to achieve the information-theoretically best possible trade-off between the rate of a code and the error-correction radius. In 2024, Bergamaschi,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Gretchen L. Matthews , Julia Shapiro

Consider the problem of constructing a polar code of block length $N$ for the transmission over a given channel $W$. Typically this requires to compute the reliability of all the $N$ synthetic channels and then to include those that are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-17 Marco Mondelli , S. Hamed Hassani , Rüdiger Urbanke