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We consider the Additive White Gaussian Noise channel with Binary Phase Shift Keying modulation. Our aim is to enable an algebraic hard decision Bounded Minimum Distance decoder for a binary block code to exploit soft information obtained…

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State-of-the-art DRAM read disturbance mitigations rely on the read disturbance threshold (RDT) (e.g., the number of aggressor row activations needed to induce the first read disturbance bitflip) to securely and performance- and…

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NAND flash memory is ubiquitous in everyday life today because its capacity has continuously increased and cost has continuously decreased over decades. This positive growth is a result of two key trends: (1) effective process technology…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2017-09-25 Yu Cai , Saugata Ghose , Erich F. Haratsch , Yixin Luo , Onur Mutlu

With the ever-growing storage density, high-speed, and low-cost data access, flash memory has inevitably become popular. Multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash memory, which can well balance the data density and memory stability, has occupied…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Haochuan Song , Frankie Fu , Cloud Zeng , Jin Sha , Zaichen Zhang , Xiaohu You , Chuan Zhang

We introduce Noise Recycling, a method that enhances decoding performance of channels subject to correlated noise without joint decoding. The method can be used with any combination of codes, code-rates and decoding techniques. In the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Alejandro Cohen , Amit Solomon , Ken R. Duffy , Muriel Médard

The pivotal storage density win achieved by solid-state devices over magnetic devices in 2015 is a result of multiple innovations in physics, architecture, and signal processing. One of the most important innovations in that regard is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Ahmed Hareedy , Simeng Zheng , Paul Siegel , Robert Calderbank

We consider an approach to fault tolerant quantum computing based on a simple error detecting code operating as the substrate for a conventional surface code. We develop a customised decoder to process the information about the likely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-11 Xiaosi Xu , Qi Zhao , Xiao Yuan , Simon C. Benjamin

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

Quad-level cell (QLC) flash offers significant benefits in cost and capacity, but its limited reliability leads to frequent read retries, which severely degrade read performance. A common strategy in high-density flash storage is to program…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Yanyun Wang , Dingcui Yu , Yina Lv , Yunpeng Song , Yumiao Zhao , Liang Shi

Polar codes have been adopted as the control channel coding scheme in the fifth generation new radio (5G NR) standard due to its capacity-achievable property. Traditional polar decoding algorithms such as successive cancellation (SC) suffer…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-02 Zhiwei Cao , Hongfei Zhu , Yuping Zhao , Dou Li

The size reduction of transistors in the latest flash memory generation has resulted in programming and data erasure issues within these designs. Consequently, ensuring reliable data storage has become a significant challenge for these…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Saeideh Nabipour , Javad Javidan

Clipping or saturation in audio signals is a very common problem in signal processing, for which, in the severe case, there is still no satisfactory solution. In such case, there is a tremendous loss of information, and traditional methods…

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We consider a transmitter that encodes data packets using network coding and broadcasts coded packets. A receiver employing network decoding recovers the data packets if a sufficient number of error-free coded packets are gathered. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Ioannis Chatzigeorgiou , Dmitry Savostyanov

Modern applications are driving demand for ultra-reliable low-latency communications, rekindling interest in the performance of short, high-rate error correcting codes. To that end, here we introduce a soft-detection variant of Guessing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Ken R. Duffy

Recommendation system has gained a large popularity for a variety of personalized suggestion tasks, but the ever-increasing number of user data makes real-time processing of recommendation systems difficult. NAND flash memory-based…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Jangho Baik , Sunghyun Kim , Gisan Ji , Wonbo Shim , Sungju Ryu

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been shown to be susceptible to memorization or overfitting in the presence of noisily-labelled data. For the problem of robust learning under such noisy data, several algorithms have been proposed. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Deep Patel , P. S. Sastry

Many decision-making problems in engineering applications such as transportation, power system and operations research require repeatedly solving large-scale linear programming problems with a large number of different inputs. For example,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-11 Yize Chen , Baosen Zhang

Increasing storage density exacerbates DRAM read disturbance, a circuit-level vulnerability exploited by system-level attacks. Unfortunately, existing defenses are either ineffective or prohibitively expensive. Efficient mitigation is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Abdullah Giray Yağlıkçı

We propose a novel solid-state disk (SSD) architecture that utilizes a double-data-rate synchronous NAND flash interface for improving read and write performance. Unlike the conventional design, the data transfer rate in the proposed design…

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