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The two-way capacities of quantum channels determine the ultimate entanglement and secret-key distribution rates achievable by two distant parties that are connected by a noisy transmission line, in absence of quantum repeaters. Since…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-27 Francesco Anna Mele , Ludovico Lami , Vittorio Giovannetti

A networked controlled system (NCS) in which the plant communicates to the controller over a channel with random delay loss is considered. The channel model is motivated by recent development of tree codes for NCS, which effectively…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-07-28 Mohammad Kazem Izadinasab , Amir Homayoun Bahari Sani , Farshad Lahouti , Babak Hassibi

Feedback communication is studied from a control-theoretic perspective, mapping the communication problem to a control problem in which the control signal is received through the same noisy channel as in the communication problem, and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-06-29 Ehsan Ardestanizadeh , Massimo Franceschetti

We consider the problem of encoding a deterministic source sequence (a.k.a.\ individual sequence) for the degraded wiretap channel by means of an encoder and decoder that can both be implemented as finite--state machines. Our first main…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Neri Merhav

Finding optimal message quantization is a key requirement for low complexity belief propagation (BP) decoding. To this end, we propose a floating-point surrogate model that imitates quantization effects as additions of uniform noise, whose…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Marvin Geiselhart , Ahmed Elkelesh , Jannis Clausius , Fei Liang , Wen Xu , Jing Liang , Stephan ten Brink

We consider a communication problem in which the receiver must first detect the presence of an information packet and, if detected, decode the message carried within it. We present general nonasymptotic upper and lower bounds on the maximum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Alejandro Lancho , Johan Östman , Giuseppe Durisi

Future 5G systems will need to support ultra-reliable low-latency communications scenarios. From a latency-reliability viewpoint, it is inefficient to rely on average utility-based system design. Therefore, we introduce the notion of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Derya Malak , Muriel Médard , Edmund M. Yeh

In this paper, we study the Integrated Communication and Control (ICAC) problem. Specifically, we investigate how messages can be transmitted from the controller/encoder to the observer/decoder through the control signal in Multiple-Input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Sepehr Jahangiri , H. Ali Talebi

A recent line of work has focused on the use of low-density generator matrix (LDGM) codes for lossy source coding. In this paper, wedevelop a generic technique for deriving lower bounds on the rate-distortion functions of binary linear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-08-18 A. G. Dimakis , M. J. Wainwright , K. Ramchandran

Fundamental limits on the performance of feedback controllers are essential for benchmarking algorithms, guiding sensor selection, and certifying task feasibility -- yet few general-purpose tools exist for computing them. Existing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Vincent Pacelli , Evangelos A. Theodorou

The Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) regulator is a cornerstone of optimal control theory, yet its performance can degrade significantly when the noise distributions deviate from the assumed Gaussian model. To address this limitation, this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-27 Riccardo Cescon , Andrea Martin , Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate

This paper presents finite-blocklength achievability bounds for the Gaussian multiple access channel (MAC) and random access channel (RAC) under average-error and maximal-power constraints. Using random codewords uniformly distributed on a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Recep Can Yavas , Victoria Kostina , Michelle Effros

This paper studies the performance of a feedback control loop closed via an error-free digital communication channel with transmission delay. The system comprises a discrete-time noisy linear time-invariant (LTI) plant whose single…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-09-05 M. Barforooshan , M. S. Derpich , P. A. Stavrou , J. Østergaard

We introduce a new quantum communication protocol for the transmission of quantum information under collective noise. Our protocol utilizes a decoherence-free subspace in such a way that an optimal asymptotic transmission rate is achieved,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-18 Michael Skotiniotis , Wolfgang Dür , Barbara Kraus

Feedback holds a pivotal role in practical communication schemes, even though it does not enhance channel capacity. Its main attribute includes adaptability in transmission that allows for a higher rate of convergence of the error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Ioannis Papoutsidakis , Robert J. Piechocki , Angela Doufexi

The performance of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes at high signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) is known to be limited by the presence of certain sub-graphs that exist in the Tanner graph representation of the code, for example trapping sets…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Homayoon Hatami , David G. M. Mitchell , Daniel J. Costello , Thomas E. Fuja

We consider lossy compression of a binary symmetric source by means of a low-density generator-matrix code. We derive two lower bounds on the rate distortion function which are valid for any low-density generator-matrix code with a given…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-04-11 Shrinivas Kudekar , Ruediger Urbanke

A rateless code encodes a finite length information word into an infinitely long codeword such that longer prefixes of the codeword can tolerate a larger fraction of errors. A rateless code achieves capacity for a family of channels if, for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-03 Benny Applebaum , Liron David , Guy Even

We introduce a new analysis technique to derive a single-letter upper bound on the mismatch capacity of a stationary, single-user, memoryless channel with a decoding metric $q$. Our bound is obtained by considering a multicast transmission…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Anelia Somekh-Baruch

Using random Gaussian vectors and an information-uncertainty relation, we give a proof that the coherent information is an achievable rate for entanglement transmission through a noisy quantum channel. The codes are random subspaces…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-06 Patrick Hayden , Peter W. Shor , Andreas Winter