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For reliable transmission across a noisy communication channel, classical results from information theory show that it is asymptotically optimal to separate out the source and channel coding processes. However, this decomposition can fall…

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Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes are linear error correcting codes used in communication systems for Forward Error Correction (FEC). But, intensive computation is required for encoding and decoding of LDPC codes, making it difficult…

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We investigate iterative low-resolution message-passing algorithms for quasi-cyclic LDPC codes with horizontal and vertical layered schedules. Coarse quantization and layered scheduling are highly relevant for hardware implementations to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Philipp Mohr , Gerhard Bauch

Determining the exact decoding error probability of linear block codes is an interesting problem. For binary BCH codes, McEliece derived methods to estimate the error probability of a simple bounded distance decoding (BDD) for BCH codes.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Sisi Miao , Jonathan Mandelbaum , Holger Jäkel , Laurent Schmalen

Belief propagation (BP) is an iterative decoding algorithm for polar codes which can be parallelized effectively to achieve higher throughput. However, because of the presence of error floor due to cycles and stopping sets in the factor…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Vismika Ranasinghe , Nandana Rajatheva , Matti Latva-aho

In this paper we investigate the decoding of parallel turbo codes over the binary erasure channel suited for upper-layer error correction. The proposed algorithm performs on-the-fly decoding, i.e. it starts decoding as soon as the first…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-03-13 Ghassan M. Kraidy , Valentin Savin

An unconventional encoding scheme called concurrent coding, has recently been demonstrated and shown to offer interesting features and benefits in comparison to conventional techniques, e.g. robustness against burst errors and improved…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-29 David M Benton

We consider the distributed computing problem of multiplying a set of vectors with a matrix. For this scenario, Li et al. recently presented a unified coding framework and showed a fundamental tradeoff between computational delay and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Albin Severinson , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Eirik Rosnes

Several applications in communication, control, and learning require approximating target distributions to within small informational divergence (I-divergence). The additional requirement of invertibility usually leads to using encoders…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Patrick Schulte , Rana Ali Amjad , Thomas Wiegart , Gerhard Kramer

Blind recognition of polar codes remains challenging in non-cooperative scenarios, particularly for information-set recognition with known code length. Existing methods mainly rely on threshold decisions determined by the generator-matrix…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Changwei Tu , Yang Liu , Xianzhao Feng , Kai Niu

Usage of multiprocessor and multicore computers implies parallel programming. Tools for preparing parallel programs include parallel languages and libraries as well as parallelizing compilers and convertors that can perform automatic…

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Quantum reading provides a general framework where to formulate the statistical discrimination of quantum channels. Several paths have been taken for such a problem. However, there is much to be done in the avenue of optimizing channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Francisco Revson F. Pereira , Stefano Mancini

An efficient decoding algorithm for horizontally u-interleaved LRPC codes is proposed and analyzed. Upper bounds on the decoding failure rate and the computational complexity of the algorithm are derived. It is shown that interleaving…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Julian Renner , Thomas Jerkovits , Hannes Bartz

A new approach to joint source-channel coding is presented in the context of communicating correlated sources over multiple access channels. Similar to the separation architecture, the joint source-channel coding system architecture in this…

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Quantum cryptography via key distribution mechanisms that utilize quantum entanglement between sender-receiver pairs will form the basis of future large-scale quantum networks. A key engineering challenge in such networks will be the…

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Most neural video codecs rely on temporal conditioning, which makes them susceptible to error propagation over long sequences. While Transformer-based architectures like the VCT offer a drift-free alternative, they suffer from high…

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Polar codes are the first codes with a proven capacity-achieving capability, but their decoding faces several challenges, especially under long code lengths. In this paper, we target algorithmic improvements and analyses to enable the…

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We consider a channel-independent decoder which is for i.i.d. random codes what the maximum mutual-information decoder is for constant composition codes. We show that this decoder results in exactly the same i.i.d. random coding error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Sergey Tridenski , Ram Zamir

In this paper, we generalize the well-known index coding problem to exploit the structure in the source-data to improve system throughput. In many applications, the data to be transmitted may lie (or can be well approximated) in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Bhavya Kailkhura , Lakshmi Narasimhan Theagarajan , Pramod K. Varshney