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This paper introduces REDC, a comprehensive strategy for offloading computational tasks within mobile Edge Networks (EN) to Distributed Computing (DC) after Rateless Encoding (RE). Despite the efficiency, reliability, and scalability…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Zhongfu Guo , Xinsheng Ji , Wei You , Yu Zhao , Bai Yi , Lingwei Wang

Constrained sequence (CS) codes, including fixed-length CS codes and variable-length CS codes, have been widely used in modern wireless communication and data storage systems. Sequences encoded with constrained sequence codes satisfy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Congzhe Cao , Duanshun Li , Ivan Fair

Low-rate and short-packet transmissions are important for ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC). In this paper, we put forth a new family of sparse superposition codes for URLLC, called block orthogonal sparse superposition…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Donghwa Han , Jeonghun Park , Youngjoo Lee , H. Vincent Poor , Namyoon Lee

Chunked codes are efficient random linear network coding (RLNC) schemes with low computational cost, where the input packets are encoded into small chunks (i.e., subsets of the coded packets). During the network transmission, RLNC is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-27 Bin Tang , Shenghao Yang , Baoliu Ye , Yitong Yin , Sanglu Lu

Random Linear Streaming Codes (RLSCs) can dramatically reduce the queuing delay of block codes in real-time services. In this paper, we aim to explore the fundamental limit of large-field-size RLSCs in stochastic symbol erasure channels…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Kai Huang , Wenjie Guan , Xiaoran Wang , Jinbei Zhang , Kechao Cai

We present in this paper a special class of unit memory convolutional codes (UMCCs), called semi-random UMCCs (SRUMCCs), where the information block is first encoded by a short block code and then transmitted in a block Markov (random)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Wenchao Lin , Suihua Cai , Baodian Wei , Xiao Ma

Supporting Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communication (URLLC) in the Internet of Things (IoT) era is challenging due to stringent constraints on latency and reliability combined with the simple circuitry of IoT nodes. Diversity is usually…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Onel L. Alcaraz López , Nurul Huda Mahmood , Hirley Alves

We propose a novel multipath multi-hop adaptive and causal random linear network coding (AC-RLNC) algorithm with forward error correction. This algorithm generalizes our joint optimization coding solution for point-to-point communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Alejandro Cohen , Guillaume Thiran , Vered Bar Bracha , Muriel Médard

This paper analyzes the design and competitiveness of four neural network (NN) architectures recently proposed as decoders for forward error correction (FEC) codes. We first consider the so-called single-label neural network (SLNN) and the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Yuncheng Yuan , Péter Scheepers , Lydia Tasiou , Yunus Can Gültekin , Federico Corradi , Alex Alvarado

We analyze whether the THz transmission distance can be extended with systematic linear network coding (sRLNC) and a low-bitrate additional channel. While various coding techniques have been proposed to mitigate issues of channel quality,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Cao Vien Phung , Admela Jukan

While Separate Source-Channel Coding (SSCC) retains the practical benefits of modular system design, its effectiveness in noisy text transmission is fundamentally constrained by the fragility of autoregressive source decoding. In low-SNR…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Ziqiong Wang , Rongpeng Li

In this paper, we propose a signal-aligned network coding (SNC) scheme for K-user time-varying multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) interference channels with limited receiver cooperation. We assume that the receivers are connected to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Tse-Tin Chan , Tat-Ming Lok

This paper studies the problem of broadcasting layered video streams over heterogeneous single-hop wireless networks using feedback-free random linear network coding (RLNC). We combine RLNC with unequal error protection (UEP) and our main…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-20 Mohammad Esmaeilzadeh , Parastoo Sadeghi , Neda Aboutorab

We study how erasure coding can improve service reliability in Data Center Networks (DCN). To this end, we find that coding can be best deployed in systems, where i) traffic is split into multiple parallel sub-flows, ii) each sub-flow is…

Performance · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Anna Engelmann , Admela Jukan , Rastin Pries

In this paper, we analyze the performance of a single-relay network in which the reliability is provided by means of Random Linear Network Coding (RLNC). We consider a scenario when both source and relay nodes can encode packets. Unlike the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Evgeny Tsimbalo , Andrea Tassi , Robert J. Piechocki

This work presents the design and implementation of a real-time network coding system integrated into the IP layer of a 5G testbed, offering an alternative to conventional retransmission-based reliability mechanisms such as ARQ and HARQ.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Laura Landon , Vipindev Adat Vasudevan , Junmo Sung , Muriel Médard

Characterization of the delay profile of systems employing random linear network coding is important for the reliable provision of broadcast services. Previous studies focused on network coding over large finite fields or developed Markov…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Ioannis Chatzigeorgiou , Andrea Tassi

Separate Source-Channel Coding (SSCC) remains attractive for text transmission due to its modularity and compatibility with mature entropy coders and powerful channel codes. However, SSCC often suffers from a pronounced cliff effect in low…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Ziqiong Wang , Tianqi Ren , Rongpeng Li , Zhifeng Zhao , Honggang Zhang

Long polar codes can achieve the capacity of arbitrary binary-input discrete memoryless channels under a low complexity successive cancelation (SC) decoding algorithm. But for polar codes with short and moderate code length, the decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Jun Lin , Chenrong Xiong , Zhiyuan Yan

As parallelism becomes critically important in the semiconductor technology, high-performance computing, and cloud applications, parallel network systems will increasingly follow suit. Today, parallelism is an essential architectural…

Performance · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Anna Engelmann , Wolfgang Bziuk , Admela Jukan , Muriel Medard