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We propose an information-theoretic private information retrieval (PIR) scheme for distributed storage systems where data is stored using a linear systematic code of rate $R > 1/2$. The proposed scheme generalizes the PIR scheme for data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-31 Siddhartha Kumar , Eirik Rosnes , Alexandre Graell i Amat

Reconciliation is an essential part of any secret-key agreement protocol and hence of a Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) protocol, where two legitimate parties are given correlated data and want to agree on a common string in the presence of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-04-01 David Elkouss , Anthony Leverrier , Romain Alléaume , Joseph Boutros

We construct a new entanglement-assisted quantum polar coding scheme which achieves the symmetric coherent information rate by synthesizing "amplitude" and "phase" channels from a given, arbitrary quantum channel. We first demonstrate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-04 Mark M. Wilde , Joseph M. Renes

We investigate the performance of continuous variable quantum key distribution scheme in a practical setting. More specifically, we take non-ideal error reconciliation procedure into account. The quantum channel connecting the two honest…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Matthias Heid , Norbert Lütkenhaus

In this paper, we propose a new polar coding scheme for the unsourced, uncoordinated Gaussian random access channel. Our scheme is based on sparse spreading, treat interference as noise and successive interference cancellation (SIC). On the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Mengfan Zheng , Yongpeng Wu , Wenjun Zhang

We introduce an error resilient distributed computing method based on an extension of the channel polarization phenomenon to distributed algorithms. The method leverages an algorithmic split operation that transforms two identical compute…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Mert Pilanci

As improved versions of successive cancellation (SC) decoding algorithm, successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding and successive cancellation stack (SCS) decoding are used to improve the finite-length performance of polar codes. Unified…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Kai Chen , Kai Niu , Jia-Ru Lin

Large data sets are increasingly common in cloud and virtualized environments. For example, transfers of multiple gigabytes are commonplace, as are replicated blocks of such sizes. There is a need for fast error-correction or data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Michael Mitzenmacher , George Varghese

Polar codes are a class of linear block codes that provably achieves channel capacity. They have been selected as a coding scheme for the control channel of enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) scenario for $5^{\text{th}}$ generation wireless…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Furkan Ercan , Thibaud Tonnellier , Carlo Condo , Warren J. Gross

In continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD), the performance of the information reconciliation (IR) step is critical for the achievable secret key rate (SKR) and transmission distance. We show how to improve on the recently…

We construct new polar coding schemes for the transmission of quantum or private classical information over arbitrary quantum channels. In the former case, our coding scheme achieves the symmetric coherent information and in the latter the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-29 Joseph M. Renes , Mark M. Wilde

-We develop a polar coding scheme for empirical coordination in a two-node network with a noisy link in which the input and output signals have to be coordinated with the source and the reconstruction. In the case of non-causal encoding and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-22 Giulia Cervia , Laura Luzzi , Matthieu Bloch , Maël Le Treust

The article discusses a key reconciliation protocol for quantum key distribution (QKD) systems based on Tree Parity Machines (TPM). The idea of transforming key material into neural network weights is presented. Two experiments were…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Matvey Yorkhov , Vladimir Faerman , Anton Konev

Polar codes are widely considered as one of the most exciting recent discoveries in channel coding. For short to moderate block lengths, their error-correction performance under list decoding can outperform that of other modern…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-06 Pascal Giard , Andreas Burg

In this paper, we present a new perspective of single server private information retrieval (PIR) schemes by using the notion of linear error-correcting codes. Many of the known single server schemes are based on taking linear combinations…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Gianira N. Alfarano , Karan Khathuria , Violetta Weger

Iterative refinement (IR) is a popular scheme for solving a linear system of equations based on gradually improving the accuracy of an initial approximation. Originally developed to improve upon the accuracy of Gaussian elimination,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Chai Wah Wu , Mark S. Squillante , Vasileios Kalantzis , Lior Horesh

We develop a new approach for asymmetric LDPC-based information reconciliation in order to adapt to the current channel state and achieve better performance and scalability in practical resource-constrained QKD systems. The new scheme…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-13 Nikolay Borisov , Ivan Petrov , Andrey Tayduganov

The recently-discovered polar codes are widely seen as a major breakthrough in coding theory. These codes achieve the capacity of many important channels under successive cancellation decoding. Motivated by the rapid progress in the theory…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Camille Leroux , Ido Tal , Alexander Vardy , Warren J. Gross

Quantum error correction is an essential ingredient for reliable quantum computation for theoretically provable quantum speedup. Topological color codes, one of the quantum error correction codes, have an advantage against the surface codes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-02 Yugo Takada , Yusaku Takeuchi , Keisuke Fujii

Polar codes are introduced for discrete memoryless broadcast channels. For $m$-user deterministic broadcast channels, polarization is applied to map uniformly random message bits from $m$ independent messages to one codeword while…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-15 Naveen Goela , Emmanuel Abbe , Michael Gastpar