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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…

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Maximum run-length limited codes are constraint codes used in communication and data storage systems. Insertion/deletion correcting codes correct insertion or deletion errors caused in transmitted sequences and are used for combating…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Reona Takemoto , Takayuki Nozaki

Restricted Syndrome Decoding (ResSD) is a variant of linear code decoding problem where each of the error's entries must belong to a fixed small set of values. This problem underlies the security of CROSS, a post-quantum signature scheme…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Étienne Burle , Aleksei Udovenko

This paper deals with a universal coding problem for a certain kind of multiterminal source coding system that we call the complementary delivery coding system. In this system, messages from two correlated sources are jointly encoded, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-10-24 Akisato Kimura , Tomohiko Uyematsu , Shigeaki Kuzuoka

The problem of secure source coding with multiple terminals is extended by considering a remote source whose noisy measurements are the correlated random variables used for secure source reconstruction. The main additions to the problem…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Onur Günlü , Rafael F. Schaefer , Holger Boche , H. Vincent Poor

Practical large-scale quantum computation requires both efficient error correction and robust implementation of logical operations. Three-dimensional (3D) color codes are a promising candidate for fault-tolerant quantum computation due to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Friederike Butt , Lars Esser , Markus Müller

Distributed linearly separable computation, where a user asks some distributed servers to compute a linearly separable function, was recently formulated by the same authors and aims to alleviate the bottlenecks of stragglers and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Kai Wan , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire

Recently, Martinez-Penas and Kschischang (IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2019) showed that lifted linearized Reed-Solomon codes are suitable codes for error control in multishot network coding. We show how to construct and decode lifted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Hannes Bartz , Sven Puchinger

Recently, a novel variation of polar codes known as polarization-adjusted convolutional (PAC) codes has been introduced by Ar{\i}kan. These codes significantly outperform conventional polar and convolutional codes, particularly for short…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Mohsen Moradi , Hessam Mahdavifar

In this paper, we use a linear programming (LP) optimization approach to evaluate the equivocation for a wiretap channel where the main channel is noiseless, and the wiretap channel is a binary symmetric channel (BSC). Using this technique,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Ali Nikkhah , Morteza Shoushtari , Bahareh Akhbari , Willie K. Harrison

Random linear network coding is a particularly decentralized approach to the multicast problem. Use of random network codes introduces a non-zero probability however that some sinks will not be able to successfully decode the required…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Adria Tauste-Campo , Alex Grant

This paper investigates the linear precoder design that maximizes the average mutual information of multiple-input multiple-output channels with finite-alphabet inputs and statistical channel state information known at the transmitter. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-09-07 Weiliang Zeng , Chengshan Xiao , Mingxi Wang , Jianhua Lu

A major issue of locally repairable codes is their robustness. If a local repair group is not able to perform the repair process, this will result in increasing the repair cost. Therefore, it is critical for a locally repairable code to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Ali Tebbi , Terence H. Chan , Chi Wan Sung

An index coding scheme in which the source (transmitter) transmits binary symbols over a wireless fading channel is considered. Index codes with the transmitter using minimum number of transmissions are known as optimal index codes.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-14 Anoop Thomas , Kavitha R. , Chandramouli A. , B. Sundar Rajan

A framework for linear-programming (LP) decoding of nonbinary linear codes over rings is developed. This framework facilitates linear-programming based reception for coded modulation systems which use direct modulation mapping of coded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Mark F. Flanagan , Vitaly Skachek , Eimear Byrne , Marcus Greferath

In network communications, information transmission often encounters wiretapping attacks. Secure network coding is introduced to prevent information from being leaked to adversaries. The investigation of performance bounds on the numbers of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-07 Xuan Guang , Jiyong Lu , Fang-Wei Fu

Hinging on ideas from physical-layer network coding, some promising proposals of coded random access systems seek to improve system performance (while preserving low complexity) by means of packet repetitions and decoding of linear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Adriano Pastore , Paul de Kerret , Monica Navarro , David Gregoratti , David Gesbert

Index coding, a source coding problem over broadcast channels, has been a subject of both theoretical and practical interest since its introduction (by Birk and Kol, 1998). In short, the problem can be defined as follows: there is an input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Abhishek Agarwal , Larkin Flodin , Arya Mazumdar

When two or more users in a wireless network transmit simultaneously, their electromagnetic signals are linearly superimposed on the channel. As a result, a receiver that is interested in one of these signals sees the others as unwanted…

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