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In this paper, we prove that with high probability, random Reed-Solomon codes approach the half-Singleton bound - the optimal rate versus error tradeoff for linear insdel codes - with linear-sized alphabets. More precisely, we prove that,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Roni Con , Zeyu Guo , Ray Li , Zihan Zhang

Short-length Reed--Muller codes under majority-logic decoding are of particular importance for efficient hardware implementations in real-time and embedded systems. This paper significantly improves Chen's two-step majority-logic decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-17 Peter Hauck , Michael Huber , Juliane Bertram , Dennis Brauchle , Sebastian Ziesche

Locally repairable codes (LRC) have recently been a subject of intense research due to theoretical appeal and their application in distributed storage systems. In an LRC, any coordinate of a codeword can be recovered by accessing only few…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-29 Abhishek Agarwal , Arya Mazumdar

Maximum distance separable (MDS) and near maximum distance separable (NMDS) codes have been widely used in various fields such as communication systems, data storage, and quantum codes due to their algebraic properties and excellent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Yujie Zhi , Shixin Zhu

Reed-Muller codes were introduced in 1954, with a simple explicit construction based on polynomial evaluations, and have long been conjectured to achieve Shannon capacity on symmetric channels. Major progress was made towards a proof over…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Emmanuel Abbe , Colin Sandon

In this paper, we prove that explicit FRS codes and multiplicity codes achieve relaxed generalized Singleton bounds for list size $L\ge1.$ Specifically, we show the following: (1) FRS code of length $n$ and rate $R$ over the alphabet…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Yeyuan Chen , Zihan Zhang

Run-length limited (RLL) codes are a well-studied class of constrained codes having application in diverse areas such as optical and magnetic data recording systems, DNA-based storage, and visible light communication. RLL codes have also…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Anshoo Tandon , Mehul Motani , Lav R. Varshney

We show that any q-ary code with sufficiently good distance can be randomly punctured to obtain, with high probability, a code that is list decodable up to radius $1 - 1/q - \epsilon$ with near-optimal rate and list sizes. Our results imply…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-08 Atri Rudra , Mary Wootters

This paper provides novel insights into channel and subspace codes in nonadaptive channel sensing with a single RF chain. Observing that this problem naturally maps to a noncoherent decoding problem, we show that the sensing performance of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-23 Parthasarathi Khirwadkar , Robin Rajamäki , Piya Pal

An improved Singleton-type upper bound is presented for the list decoding radius of linear codes, in terms of the code parameters [n,k,d] and the list size L. L-MDS codes are then defined as codes that attain this bound (under a slightly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Ron M. Roth

Spinal codes is a new family of capacity-achieving rateless codes that has been shown to achieve better rate performance compared to Raptor codes, Strider codes, and rateless Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) codes. This correspondence…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Aimin Li , Shaohua Wu , Xiaomeng Chen , Sumei Sun

The study of subblock-constrained codes has recently gained attention due to their application in diverse fields. We present bounds on the size and asymptotic rate for two classes of subblock-constrained codes. The first class is binary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-19 Anshoo Tandon , Han Mao Kiah , Mehul Motani

Recently, rate-1/n zero-terminated (ZT) and tail-biting (TB) convolutional codes (CCs) with cyclic redundancy check (CRC)-aided list decoding have been shown to closely approach the random-coding union (RCU) bound for short blocklengths.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Wenhui Sui , Brendan Towell , Ava Asmani , Hengjie Yang , Holden Grissett , Richard D. Wesel

We consider the problem of multiple descriptions (MD) source coding and propose new coding strategies involving both unstructured and structured coding layers. Previously, the most general achievable rate-distortion (RD) region for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-08 Farhad Shirani , S. Sandeep Pradhan

Reed-Muller (RM) and polar codes are a class of capacity-achieving channel coding schemes with the same factor graph representation. Low-complexity decoding algorithms fall short in providing a good error-correction performance for RM and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Seyyed Ali Hashemi , Nghia Doan , Marco Mondelli , Warren J. Gross

Lifted Reed-Solomon codes and multiplicity codes are two classes of evaluation codes that allow for the design of high-rate codes that can recover every codeword or information symbol from many disjoint sets. Recently, the underlying…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Lukas Holzbaur , Rina Polyanskaya , Nikita Polyanskii , Ilya Vorobyev , Eitan Yaakobi

We establish an equivalence between two important random ensembles of linear codes: random linear codes (RLCs) and random Reed-Solomon (RS) codes. Specifically, we show that these models exhibit identical behavior with respect to key…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Matan Levi , Jonathan Mosheiff , Nikhil Shagrithaya

The rate vs. distance problem is a long-standing open problem in coding theory. Recent papers have suggested a new way to tackle this problem by appealing to a new hierarchy of linear programs. If one can find good dual solutions to these…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Elyassaf Loyfer , Nati Linial

This paper presents a construction for high-rate MDS codes that enable bandwidth-efficient repair of a single node. Such MDS codes are also referred to as the minimum storage regenerating (MSR) codes in the distributed storage literature.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-26 Ankit Singh Rawat , O. Ozan Koyluoglu , Sriram Vishwanath

We describe some pseudorandom properties of binary linear codes achieving capacity on the binary erasure channel under bit-MAP decoding (as shown in Kudekar et al this includes doubly transitive codes and, in particular, Reed-Muller codes).…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Alex Samorodnitsky