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We introduce a novel approach to error correction decoding in the presence of additive alpha-stable noise, which serves as a model of interference-limited wireless systems. In the absence of modifications to decoding algorithms, treating…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Charles Wiame , Ken R. Duffy , Muriel Médard

We introduce a generalized low-density parity-check decoding framework for quantum Tanner codes utilizing soft-output guessing random additive noise decoding (SOGRAND). By soft-output decoding entire component codes, we mitigate trapping…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Lukas Rapp , Muriel Médard , Eugene Tang , Ken R. Duffy

In addition to a proposed codeword, error correction decoders that provide blockwise soft output (SO) return an estimate of the likelihood that the decoding is correct. Following Forney, such estimates are traditionally only possible for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Jiewei Feng , Ken R. Duffy , Muriel Médard

Optimal modulation (OM) schemes for Gaussian channels with peak and average power constraints are known to require nonuniform probability distributions over signal points, which presents practical challenges. An established way to map…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Basak Ozaydin , Muriel Médard , Ken Duffy

This paper is concerned with a search-number-reduced guessing random additive noise decoding (GRAND) algorithm for linear block codes, called partially constrained GRAND (PC-GRAND). In contrast to the original GRAND, which guesses error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Yixin Wang , Jifan Liang , Xiao Ma

Supporting ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (URLLC) is a challenge in current wireless systems. Channel codes that generate large codewords improve reliability but necessitate the use of interleavers, which introduce undesirable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Sahar Allahkaram , Francisco A. Monteiro , Ioannis Chatzigeorgiou

Guessing random additive noise decoding (GRAND) is a code-agnostic decoding method that iteratively guesses the noise pattern affecting the received codeword. The number of noise sequences to test depends on the noise realization. Thus,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-10 Filippo Christen , Darja Nonaca , Christoph Studer

To facilitate applications in IoT, 5G, and beyond, there is an engineering need to enable high-rate, low-latency communications. Errors in physical channels typically arrive in clumps, but most decoders are designed assuming that channels…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Wei An , Muriel Médard , Ken R. Duffy

CA-Polar codes have been selected for all control channel communications in 5G NR, but accurate, computationally feasible decoders are still subject to development. Here we report the performance of a recently proposed class of optimally…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Ken Duffy , Amit Solomon , Kishori M. Konwar , Muriel Medard

Guessing random additive noise decoding (GRAND) algorithm has emerged as an excellent decoding strategy that can meet both the high reliability and low latency constraints. This paper proposes a successive addition-subtraction algorithm to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Ming Zhan , Zhibo Pang , Kan Yu , Jing Xu , Fang Wu

For spectral efficiency, higher order modulation symbols confer information on more than one bit. As soft detection forward error correction decoders assume the availability of information at binary granularity, however, soft demappers are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Wei An , Muriel Medard , Ken R. Duffy

A present challenge in wireless communications is the assurance of ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (URLLC). While the reliability aspect is well known to be improved by channel coding with long codewords, this usually implies…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Sahar Allahkaram , Francisco A. Monteiro , Ioannis Chatzigeorgiou

We present a novel method for error correction in the presence of fading channel estimation errors (CEE). When such errors are significant, considerable performance losses can be observed if the wireless transceiver is not adapted. Instead…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Charles Wiame , Ken R. Duffy , Muriel Médard

In this paper, we distinguish two guessing algorithms for decoding binary linear codes. One is the guessing noise decoding (GND) algorithm, and the other is the guessing codeword decoding (GCD) algorithm. We prove that the GCD is a maximum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Xiao Ma

The high computational cost of approaching the performance of Maximum-likelihood (ML) decoding has limited its practical use for decades. Because the complexity grows exponentially with the message length, researchers have spent years…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Marwan Jalaleddine , Jiajie Li , Syed Mohsin Abbas , Warren J. Gross

In the classic wiretap model, Alice wishes to reliably communicate to Bob without being overheard by Eve who is eavesdropping over a degraded channel. Systems for achieving that physical layer security often rely on an error correction code…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Muriel Médard , Ken R. Duffy

In multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) fading channels maximum likelihood (ML) detection is desirable to achieve high performance, but its complexity grows exponentially with the spectral efficiency. The current state of the art in MIMO…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Massimiliano Siti , Michael P. Fitz

The growing gap between the increasing complexity of large language models (LLMs) and the limited computational budgets of edge devices poses a key challenge for efficient on-device inference, despite gradual improvements in hardware…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Xiangchen Li , Dimitrios Spatharakis , Saeid Ghafouri , Jiakun Fan , Hans Vandierendonck , Deepu John , Bo Ji , Dimitrios Nikolopoulos

We propose a massive parallel decoding GRAND framework. The framework introduces two novelties: 1. A likelihood function for $M$-QAM demodulated signals that effectively reduces the symbol error pattern space from $\mathcal{O}(5^{N/\log_2…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Danilo Gligoroski , Sahana Sridhar , Katina Kralevska

This paper considers a transmitter, which uses random linear coding (RLC) to encode data packets. The generated coded packets are broadcast to one or more receivers. A receiver can recover the data packets if it gathers a sufficient number…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Ioannis Chatzigeorgiou