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This paper investigates the construction of linear network codes for broadcasting a set of data packets to a number of users. The links from the source to the users are modeled as independent erasure channels. Users are allowed to inform…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-10 Chi Wan Sung , Linyu Huang , Ho Yuet Kwan , Kenneth W. Shum

We present a joint source-channel multiple description (JSC-MD) framework for resource-constrained network communications (e.g., sensor networks), in which one or many deprived encoders communicate a Markov source against bit errors and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-08-28 Xiaolin Wu , Xiaohan Wang , Zhe Wang

We consider the transmission of spatially correlated analog information in a wireless sensor network (WSN) through fading single-input and multiple-output (SIMO) multiple access channels (MACs) with low-latency requirements. A lattice-based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Pedro Suárez-Casal , Óscar Fresnedo , Darian Pérez-Adán , Luis Castedo

Current privacy-aware joint source-channel coding (JSCC) works aim at avoiding private information transmission by adversarially training the JSCC encoder and decoder under specific signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) of eavesdroppers. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Lunan Sun , Caili Guo , Mingzhe Chen , Yang Yang

This study focuses on the mobile video delivery from a video server to a multi-homed client with a network of heterogeneous wireless. Joint Source-Channel Coding is effectively used to transmit video over bandwidth-limited, noisy wireless…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-06-30 Xiaoyan Gao

We consider a joint source channel coding (JSCC) problem in which we desire to transmit an arbitrary memoryless source over an arbitrary additive channel. We propose a mismatched coding architecture that consists of Gaussian codebooks for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Lin Zhou , Vincent Y. F. Tan , Mehul Motani

We consider the problem of reliable communication over multiple-access channels (MAC) where the channel is driven by an independent and identically distributed state process and the encoders and the decoder are provided with various degrees…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-01-20 Nevroz Şen , Fady Alajaji , Serdar Yüksel , Giacomo Como

We study variable-length feedback (VLF) codes over binary-input memoryless symmetric (BMS) channels using posterior matching with small-enough-difference (SED) partitioning. Prior analyses of SED-based schemes rely on bounded log-likelihood…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Recep Can Yavas

Posterior matching uses variable-length encoding of the message controlled by noiseless feedback of the received symbols to achieve high rates for short average blocklengths. Traditionally, the feedback of a received symbol occurs before…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Amaael Antonini , Rita Gimelshein , Richard D. Wesel

We derive upper and lower bounds on the reliability function for the common-message discrete memoryless broadcast channel with variable-length feedback. We show that the bounds are tight when the broadcast channel is stochastically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-13 Lan V. Truong , Vincent Y. F. Tan

Small satellites used for Earth observation generate vast amounts of high-dimensional data, but their operation in low Earth orbit creates a significant communication bottleneck due to limited contact times and harsh, varying channel…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Olga Kondrateva , Grace Li Zhang , Julian Zobel , Björn Scheuermann , Stefan Dietzel

We study near optimal error correction codes for real-time communication. In our setup the encoder must operate on an incoming source stream in a sequential manner, and the decoder must reconstruct each source packet within a fixed playback…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-16 Ahmed Badr , Ashish Khisti , Wai-Tian Tan , John Apostolopoulos

In order to reduce the number of retransmissions and save power for the source node, we propose a two-phase coded scheme to achieve reliable broadcast from the source to a group of users with minimal source transmissions. In the first…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-26 Xiaoli Xu , Meenakshi Sundaram Gandhi Praveen Kumar , Yong Liang Guan

Consider the problem of source coding in networks with multiple receiving terminals, each having access to some kind of side information. In this case, standard coding techniques are either prohibitively complex to decode, or require…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-11-28 Chen Avin , Michael Borokhovich , Asaf Cohen , Zvi Lotker

We study video streaming over a slow fading wireless channel. In a streaming application video packets are required to be decoded and displayed in the order they are transmitted as the transmission goes on. This results in per-packet delay…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-12 Giuseppe Cocco , Deniz Gündüz , Christian Ibars

Some state-of-art multimedia source encoders produce embedded source bit streams that upon the reliable reception of only a fraction of the total bit stream, the decoder is able reconstruct the source up to a basic quality. Reliable…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2014-03-04 Suayb S. Arslan

The A-channel is a noiseless multiple access channel in which users simultaneously transmit Q-ary symbols and the receiver observes the set of transmitted symbols, but not their multiplicities. An A-channel is said to be unsourced if,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-06 William W. Zheng , Jamison R. Ebert , Stefano Rini , Jean-Francois Chamberland

Nowadays, the demand for image transmission over wireless networks has surged significantly. To meet the need for swift delivery of high-quality images through time-varying channels with limited bandwidth, the development of efficient…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Mohammad Amin Jarrahi , Eirina Bourtsoulatze , Vahid Abolghasemi

In an unreliable single-hop broadcast network setting, we investigate the throughput and decoding-delay performance of random linear network coding as a function of the coding window size and the network size. Our model consists of a source…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 B. T. Swapna , Atilla Eryilmaz , Ness B. Shroff

Deep joint source-channel coding (DJSCC) has emerged as a robust alternative to traditional separate coding for communications through wireless channels. Existing DJSCC approaches focus primarily on point-to-point wireless communication…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-16 Jiangyuan Guo , Wei Chen , Yuxuan Sun , Bo Ai