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We improve the secrecy guarantees for transmission over general binary memoryless symmetric wiretap channels that relies on regular LDPC codes. Previous works showed that LDPC codes achieve secrecy capacity of some classes of wiretap…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Madhura Pathegama , Alexander Barg

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 study uniquely decodable codes and list decodable codes in the high-noise regime, specifically codes that are uniquely decodable from $\frac{1-\varepsilon}{2}$ fraction of errors and list decodable from $1-\varepsilon$ fraction of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Xin Li , Songtao Mao

A mathematical topology with matrix is a natural representation of a coding relational structure that is found in many fields of the world. Matrices are very important in computation of real applications, s ce matrices are easy saved in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Bing Yao , Meimei Zhao , Xiaohui Zhang , Yarong Mu , Yirong Sun , Mingjun Zhang , Sihua Yang , Fei Ma , Jing Su , Xiaomin Wang , Hongyu Wang , Hui Sun

In this paper we study function-correcting codes, a new class of codes designed to protect the function evaluation of a message against errors. We show that FCCs are equivalent to irregular-distance codes, i.e., codes that obey some given…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Andreas Lenz , Rawad Bitar , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Eitan Yaakobi

We consider the problem of secure distributed matrix multiplication (SDMM) in which a user wishes to compute the product of two matrices with the assistance of honest but curious servers. We construct polynomial codes for SDMM by studying a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Rafael G. L. D'Oliveira , Salim El Rouayheb , David Karpuk

Binary $t$-frameproof codes ($t$-FPCs) are used in multimedia fingerprinting schemes where the identification of authorized users taking part in the averaging collusion attack is required. In this paper, a binary strongly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-22 Jing Jiang , Minquan Cheng , Ying Miao

In recent years, the rapidly increasing amounts of data created and processed through the internet resulted in distributed storage systems employing erasure coding based schemes. Aiming to balance the tradeoff between data recovery for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Xiangliang Kong , Jingxue Ma , Gennian Ge

List-decoding and list-recovery are important generalizations of unique decoding that received considerable attention over the years. However, the optimal trade-off among list-decoding (resp. list-recovery) radius, list size, and the code…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Eitan Goldberg , Chong Shangguan , Itzhak Tamo

We consider coding schemes for computationally bounded channels, which can introduce an arbitrary set of errors as long as (a) the fraction of errors is bounded with high probability by a parameter $p$ and (b) the process which adds the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-01 Venkatesan Guruswami , Adam Smith

Starting from a practical use of Reed-Solomon codes in a cryptographic scheme published in Indocrypt'09, this paper deals with the threshold of linear $q$-ary error-correcting codes. The security of this scheme is based on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-01-15 Bruno Kindarji , Gérard Cohen , Hervé Chabanne

Codes for storage systems aim to minimize the repair locality, which is the number of disks (or nodes) that participate in the repair of a single failed disk. Simultaneously, the code must sustain a high rate, operate on a small finite…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-29 Sreechakra Goparaju , Robert Calderbank

We review connections between coding-theoretic objects and sparse learning problems. In particular, we show how seemingly different combinatorial objects such as error-correcting codes, combinatorial designs, spherical codes, compressed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-13 Mahdi Cheraghchi

Chase-like decoding algorithms are a popular choice for soft-input decoding of algebraic codes. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of different test pattern sets using three methods. For test pattern sets with a certain structure…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Tim Janz , Simon Obermüller , Andreas Zunker , Stephan ten Brink

Low Rank Parity Check (LRPC) codes form a class of rank-metric error-correcting codes that was purposely introduced to design public-key encryption schemes. An LRPC code is defined from a parity check matrix whose entries belong to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Étienne Burle , Ayoub Otmani

Symbol-pair codes introduced by Cassuto and Blaum (2010) are designed to protect against pair errors in symbol-pair read channels. The higher the minimum pair distance, the more pair errors the code can correct. MDS symbol-pair codes are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-12 Bocong Chen , Liren Lin , Hongwei Liu

By a locally recoverable code (LRC), we will in this paper, mean a linear code in which a given code symbol can be recovered by taking a linear combination of at most $r$ other code symbols with $r << k$. A natural extension is to the local…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-07 S. B. Balaji , Ganesh R. Kini , P. Vijay Kumar

This paper addresses the issue of design of low-rate sparse-graph codes with linear minimum distance in the blocklength. First, we define a necessary condition which needs to be satisfied when the linear minimum distance is to be ensured.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-10-12 Iryna Andriyanova , Jean-Pierre Tillich

A locally recoverable code (LRC code) is a code over a finite alphabet such that every symbol in the encoding is a function of a small number of other symbols that form a recovering set. Bounds on the rate and distance of such codes have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-06 Itzhak Tamo , Alexander Barg

This paper studies the cardinality of codes correcting insertions and deletions. We give improved upper and lower bounds on code size. Our upper bound is obtained by utilizing the asymmetric property of list decoding for insertions and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Kenji Yasunaga