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This paper presents a new derivation method of converse bounds on the non-asymptotic achievable rate of discrete weakly symmetric memoryless channels. It is based on the finite blocklength statistics of the channel, where with the use of an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Ioannis Papoutsidakis , Robert J. Piechocki , Angela Doufexi

Polar codes introduced by Arikan in 2009 are the first code family achieving the capacity of binary-input discrete memoryless channels (BIDMCs) with low-complexity encoding and decoding. Identifying unreliable synthetic channels in polar…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Yadong Jiao , Xiaoyan Cheng , Yuansheng Tang , Ming Xu

The paper provides a new perspective on peak- and average-constrained Gaussian channels. Such channels model optical wireless communication (OWC) systems which employ intensity-modulation with direct detection (IM/DD). First, the paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Sarah Bahanshal , Ahmad Abdel-Qader , Anas Chaaban

The past decade has seen notable advances in our understanding of structured error-correcting codes, particularly binary Reed--Muller (RM) codes. While initial breakthroughs were for erasure channels based on symmetry, extending these…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Henry D. Pfister , Galen Reeves

The input-constrained binary erasure channel (BEC) with strictly causal feedback is studied. The channel input sequence must satisfy the $(0,k)$-runlength limited (RLL) constraint, i.e., no more than $k$ consecutive `$0$'s are allowed. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-08 Ori Peled , Oron Sabag , Haim H. Permuter

For information transmission a binary symmetric channel is used. There is also another noisy binary symmetric channel (feedback channel), and the transmitter observes without delay all the outputs of the forward channel via that feedback…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-11-10 M. V. Burnashev , H. Yamamoto

For the polar codes introduced by Arikan in 2009, the first code family achieving the capacity of binary-input discrete memoryless channels (BIDMCs) with low-complexity encoding and decoding, it is crucial to evaluate the reliability of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Yadong Jiao , Xiaoyan Cheng , Yuansheng Tang , Ming Xu

A concatenated coding scheme over binary memoryless symmetric (BMS) channels using a polarization transformation followed by outer sub-codes is analyzed. Achievable error exponents and upper bounds on the error rate are derived. The first…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Dina Goldin , David Burshtein

The error probability of block codes sent under a non-uniform input distribution over the memoryless binary symmetric channel (BSC) and decoded via the maximum a posteriori (MAP) decoding rule is investigated. It is proved that the ratio of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Ling-Hua Chang , Po-Ning Chen , Fady Alajaji

The state-dependent $K$-user memoryless Broadcast Channel~(BC) with state feedback is investigated. We propose a novel transmission scheme and derive its corresponding achievable rate region, which, compared to some general schemes that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Chao He , Sheng Yang , Pablo Piantanida

This paper introduces a quantitative generalization of the ``more capable'' comparison of broadcast channels, which is termed ``more capable with advantage''. Some basic properties are demonstrated (including tensorization on product…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Donald Kougang-Yombi , Jan Hązła

Binary-input memoryless channels with a runlength constrained input are considered. Upper bounds to the capacity of such noisy runlength constrained channels are derived using the dual capacity method with Markov test distributions…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Andrew Thangaraj

In this paper, we present new achievability bounds on the maximal achievable rate of variable-length stop-feedback (VLSF) codes operating over a binary erasure channel (BEC) at a fixed message size $M = 2^k$. We provide new bounds for VLSF…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Hengjie Yang , Richard D. Wesel

We consider the oblivious transfer (OT) capacities of noisy channels against the passive adversary; this problem has not been solved even for the binary symmetric channel (BSC). In the literature, the general construction of OT has been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-01 So Suda , Shun Watanabe

The Poltyrev bound provides a very tight upper bound on the decoding error probability when using binary linear codes for transmission over the binary symmetric channel and the additive white Gaussian noise channel, making use of the code's…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Tal Philosof , Ariel Doubchak , Amit Berman , Uri Erez

In this paper, we consider encoding strategies for the Z-channel with noiseless feedback. We analyze the combinatorial setting where the maximum number of errors inflicted by an adversary is proportional to the number of transmissions,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Christian Deppe , Vladimir Lebedev , Georg Maringer , Nikita Polyanskii

Semantic communications (SemComs) have emerged as a promising paradigm for joint data and task-oriented transmissions, combining the demands for both the bit-accurate delivery and end-to-end (E2E) distortion minimization. However, current…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Dongxu Li , Kai Yuan , Jianhao Huang , Chuan Huang , Xiaoqi Qin , Shuguang Cui , Ping Zhang

Consider a memoryless degraded broadcast channel (DBC) in which the channel output is a single-letter function of the channel input and the channel noise. As examples, for the Gaussian broadcast channel (BC) this single-letter function is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-10-25 Bike Xie , Thomas Courtade , Richard D. Wesel

Channel polarization is a method of constructing capacity achieving codes for symmetric binary-input discrete memoryless channels (B-DMCs) [1]. In the original paper, the construction complexity is exponential in the blocklength. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-05-23 Ryuhei Mori , Toshiyuki Tanaka

The generalized Poor-Verdu error lower bound established in [1] for multihypothesis testing is studied in the classical channel coding context. It is proved that for any sequence of block codes sent over the memoryless binary symmetric…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Ling-Hua Chang , Po-Ning Chen , Fady Alajaji , Yunghsiang S. Han