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Guessing random additive noise decoding (GRAND) is a recently proposed decoding paradigm particularly suitable for codes with short length and high rate. Among its variants, ordered reliability bits GRAND (ORBGRAND) exploits soft…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Li Wan , Wenyi Zhang

Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding (GRAND) and its variants, known for their near-maximum likelihood performance, have been introduced in recent years. One such variant, Segmented GRAND, reduces decoding complexity by generating only…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Lukas Rapp , Jiewei Feng , Muriel Médard , Ken R. Duffy

Error correction techniques traditionally focus on the co-design of restricted code-structures in tandem with code-specific decoders that are computationally efficient when decoding long codes in hardware. Modern applications are, however,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Ken R. Duffy , Wei An , Muriel Medard

Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding (GRAND) is a universal framework for decoding all block codes by testing candidate error patterns (EPs). Ordered Reliability Bits GRAND (ORBGRAND) facilitates parallel implementation of GRAND by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Li Wan , Wenyi Zhang

Future beyond-5G and 6G systems demand ultra-reliable, low-latency communication with short blocklengths, motivating the development of universal decoding algorithms. Guessing decoding, which infers the noise or codeword candidate in order…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Qianfan Wang , Jifan Liang , Peihong Yuan , Ken R. Duffy , Muriel Médard , Xiao Ma

Parallelism has become a central concern in modern decoding frameworks aiming to meet stringent throughput and latency requirements. Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding (GRAND) is a recently proposed decoding paradigm that tests…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Li Wan , Huarui Yin , Wenyi Zhang

This paper considers a transmitter, which uses random linear coding (RLC) to encode data packets. The generated coded packets are broadcast to one or more receivers. A receiver can recover the data packets if it gathers a sufficient number…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Ioannis Chatzigeorgiou

Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding (GRAND) is a recently proposed decoding method searching for the error pattern applied to the transmitted codeword. Ordered reliability bit GRAND (ORBGRAND) uses soft channel information to reorder…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Carlo Condo , Valerio Bioglio , Ingmar Land

Random jammers that overpower transmitted signals are a practical concern for many wireless communication protocols. As such, wireless receivers must be able to cope with standard channel noise and jamming (intentional or unintentional). To…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Furkan Ercan , Kevin Galligan , David Starobinski , Muriel Medard , Ken R. Duffy , Rabia Tugce Yazicigil

CRC codes have long since been adopted in a vast range of applications. The established notion that they are suitable primarily for error detection can be set aside through use of the recently proposed Guessing Random Additive Noise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Wei An , Muriel Médard , Ken R. Duffy

We study the problem of semi-supervised learning on graphs, for which graph neural networks (GNNs) have been extensively explored. However, most existing GNNs inherently suffer from the limitations of over-smoothing, non-robustness, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Wenzheng Feng , Jie Zhang , Yuxiao Dong , Yu Han , Huanbo Luan , Qian Xu , Qiang Yang , Evgeny Kharlamov , Jie Tang

Optimal modulation (OM) schemes for Gaussian channels with peak and average power constraints are known to require nonuniform probability distributions over signal points, which presents practical challenges. An established way to map…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Basak Ozaydin , Muriel Médard , Ken Duffy

Supporting ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (URLLC) is a challenge in current wireless systems. Channel codes that generate large codewords improve reliability but necessitate the use of interleavers, which introduce undesirable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Sahar Allahkaram , Francisco A. Monteiro , Ioannis Chatzigeorgiou

In the classic wiretap model, Alice wishes to reliably communicate to Bob without being overheard by Eve who is eavesdropping over a degraded channel. Systems for achieving that physical layer security often rely on an error correction code…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Muriel Médard , Ken R. Duffy

We present Graph Neural Diffusion (GRAND) that approaches deep learning on graphs as a continuous diffusion process and treats Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) as discretisations of an underlying PDE. In our model, the layer structure and…

GRAND features both soft-input and hard-input variants that are well suited to efficient hardware implementations that can be characterized with achievable average and worst-case decoding latency. This paper introduces step-GRAND, a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-28 Syed Mohsin Abbas , Marwan Jalaleddine , Chi-Ying Tsui , Warren J. Gross

The ordered-reliability bits (ORB) variant of guessing random additive noise decoding (GRAND), known as ORBGRAND, achieves remarkably low time complexity at high code rates compared to other GRAND variants. However, its computational…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Mohammad Rowshan , Jinhong Yuan

To facilitate applications in IoT, 5G, and beyond, there is an engineering need to enable high-rate, low-latency communications. Errors in physical channels typically arrive in clumps, but most decoders are designed assuming that channels…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Wei An , Muriel Médard , Ken R. Duffy

A present challenge in wireless communications is the assurance of ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (URLLC). While the reliability aspect is well known to be improved by channel coding with long codewords, this usually implies…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Sahar Allahkaram , Francisco A. Monteiro , Ioannis Chatzigeorgiou

Maximum-likelihood (ML) decoding can be used to obtain the optimal performance of error correction codes. However, the size of the search space and consequently the decoding complexity grows exponentially, making it impractical to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Mohammad Rowshan , Jinhong Yuan