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Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Auguste Venkiah , Charly Poulliat , David Declercq

We propose a new class of information-coupled (IC) Turbo codes to improve the transport block (TB) error rate performance for long-term evolution (LTE) systems, while keeping the hybrid automatic repeat request protocol and the Turbo…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Lei Yang , Yixuan Xie , Xiaowei Wu , Jinhong Yuan , Xingqing Cheng , Lei Wan

This paper presents an achievability bound that evaluates the exact probability of error of an ensemble of random codes that are decoded by a minimum distance decoder. Compared to the state-of-the-art which demands exponential computation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Ioannis Papoutsidakis , Angela Doufexi , Robert J. Piechocki

This paper proposes a bitwise over-parameterized neural network (ONN) decoder for polar-coded transmission and develops a tractable theoretical performance analysis framework. By modeling each synthesized message channel as an individual…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-01 Hongzhi Zhu , Wei Xu , Xiaohu You

Quantum error correction (QEC) is indispensable for realizing fault-tolerant quantum computation, yet its effectiveness hinges critically on the classical decoding algorithm that interprets noisy syndrome measurements. Among all possible…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Hanyan Cao , Ge Yan , Yuxuan Du , Feng Pan

The problem of mismatched decoding for discrete memoryless channels is addressed. A mismatched cognitive multiple-access channel is introduced, and an inner bound on its capacity region is derived using two alternative encoding methods:…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-03 Anelia Somekh-Baruch

We study the following semi-deterministic setting of the joint source-channel coding problem: a deterministic source sequence (a.k.a. individual sequence) is transmitted via a memoryless channel, using delay-limited encoder and decoder,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Neri Merhav

We present nonasymptotic upper and lower bounds on the maximum coding rate achievable when transmitting short packets over a Rician memoryless block-fading channel for a given requirement on the packet error probability. We focus on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Johan Östman , Giuseppe Durisi , Erik G. Ström , Mustafa C. Coşkun , Gianluigi Liva

Semantic communications are considered a promising beyond-Shannon/bit paradigm to reduce network traffic and increase reliability, thus making wireless networks more energy efficient, robust, and sustainable. However, the performance is…

The lower bound on the decoding error probability for the optimal code given a signal-to-noise ratio and a code rate are investigated in this letter for the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) communication system over a Rician fading…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Likun Sui , Zihuai Lin

As the mobile application landscape expands, wireless networks are tasked with supporting different connection profiles, including real-time traffic and delay-sensitive communications. Among many ensuing engineering challenges is the need…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-31 Fatemeh Hamidi-Sepehr , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Henry D. Pfister

We present an approach to showing that a linear code is resilient to random errors. We use this approach to obtain decoding results for both transitive codes and Reed-Muller codes. We give three kinds of results about linear codes in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Anup Rao , Oscar Sprumont

The surface code is a promising platform for a quantum memory, but its threshold under coherent errors remains incompletely understood. We study maximum-likelihood decoding of the square-lattice surface code in the presence of single-qubit…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-05 Stephen W. Yan , Yimu Bao , Sagar Vijay

This work develops a rate-distortion-based approach to stochastic Chase decoding of algebraic codes over binary memoryless symmetric (BMS) channels, replacing the heuristics traditionally used to determine flip probabilities with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Amit Berman , Ariel Doubchak , Uri Erez , Tal Philosof , Ilya Shapir

In this paper, the asymptotic performance of the lattice sequential decoder for LAttice Space-Time (LAST) coded MIMO channel is analyzed. We determine the rates achievable by lattice coding and sequential decoding applied to such a channel.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Walid Abediseid , Mohamed Oussama Damen

We prove that, for the binary erasure channel (BEC), the polar-coding paradigm gives rise to codes that not only approach the Shannon limit but do so under the best possible scaling of their block length as a~function of the gap to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Arman Fazeli , S. Hamed Hassani , Marco Mondelli , Alexander Vardy

Motivated by a greedy approach for generating {\it{information stable}} processes, we prove a universal maximum likelihood (ML) upper bound on the capacities of discrete information stable channels, including the binary erasure channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Tongxin Li

We introduce a new algorithm for realizing Maximum Likelihood (ML) decoding in discrete channels with or without memory. In it, the receiver rank orders noise sequences from most likely to least likely. Subtracting noise from the received…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Ken R. Duffy , Jiange Li , Muriel Médard

The min-sum (MS) algorithm is arguably the second most fundamental algorithm in the realm of message passing due to its optimality (for a tree code) with respect to the {\em block error} probability \cite{Wiberg}. There also seems to be a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Kapil Bhattad , Vishwambhar Rathi , Ruediger Urbanke

For any given short code (referred to as the basic code), block Markov superposition transmission (BMST) provides a simple way to obtain predictable extra coding gain by spatial coupling the generator matrix of the basic code. This paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-13 Chulong Liang , Xiao Ma , Qiutao Zhuang , Baoming Bai