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One of the primary objectives of a distributed storage system is to reliably store large amounts of source data for long durations using a large number $N$ of unreliable storage nodes, each with $c$ bits of storage capacity. Storage nodes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Michael Luby

Synchronization channels, such as the well-known deletion channel, are surprisingly harder to analyze than memoryless channels, and they are a source of many fundamental problems in information theory and theoretical computer science. One…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Mahdi Cheraghchi , João Ribeiro

In this paper, the problem of determining the capacity of a communication channel is formulated as a cooperative game, between a generator and a discriminator, that is solved via deep learning techniques. The task of the generator is to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Nunzio A. Letizia , Andrea M. Tonello , H. Vincent Poor

The capacity region of the interference channel in which one transmitter non-causally knows the message of the other, termed the cognitive interference channel, has remained open since its inception in 2005. A number of subtly differing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Stefano Rini , Daniela Tuninetti , Natasha Devroye

We consider the distributed channel access problem for a system consisting of multiple control subsystems that close their loop over a shared wireless network. We propose a distributed method for providing deterministic channel access…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Tahmoores Farjam , Henk Wymeersch , Themistoklis Charalambous

We study the problem of estimating a parametric discrete memoryless channel \( p(y \mid x; \boldsymbol{\theta}) \) when the transmitter selects its input distribution \( \pi \) to maximize mutual information under the true parameter \(…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Hassan Tavakoli , Thinh Nguyen , Bella Bose

This paper provides new insight into the classical problem of determining both the capacity of the discrete-time channel with uniform output quantization and the capacity achieving input distribution. It builds on earlier work by Gallager…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-01-19 Yiyue Wu , Linda M. Davis , Robert Calderbank

Channel symmetry properties that imply the tightness of Shannon's random coding inner bound have recently been used to determine the capacity region of discrete-memoryless two-way channels (DM-TWCs). For channels without such symmetry…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-28 Jian-Jia Weng , Fady Alajaji , Tamás Linder

The traditional notion of capacity studied in the context of memoryless network communication builds on the concept of block-codes and requires that, for sufficiently large blocklength n, all receiver nodes simultaneously decode their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Michael Langberg , Michelle Effros

Exponential error bounds achievable by universal coding and decoding are derived for frame-asynchronous discrete memoryless %asynchronous multiple access channels with two senders, via the method of subtypes, a refinement of the method of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Lóránt Farkas , Tamás Kói

The study of the fundamental limits of information systems is a central theme in information theory. Both the traditional analytical approach and the recently proposed computational approach have significant limitations, where the former is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Wenjing Chen , Chao Tian

The capacity of a memoryless state-dependent channel is derived for a setting in which the encoder is provided with rate-limited assistance from a cribbing helper that observes the state sequence causally and the past channel inputs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Amos Lapidoth , Yossef Steinberg

In this paper, we use the linear deterministic approximation model to study a two user multiple access channel mutually interfering with a point to point link, which represents a basic setup of a cellular system. We derive outer bounds on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-05-12 Jörg Bühler , Gerhard Wunder

We investigate the fundamental limits of reliable communication over multi-view channels, in which the channel output is comprised of a large number of independent noisy views of a transmitted symbol. We consider first the setting of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-14 V. Arvind Rameshwar , Nir Weinberger

We investigate state estimation of linear systems over channels having a finite state not known by the transmitter or receiver. We show that similar to memoryless channels, zero-error capacity is the right figure of merit for achieving…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-06 Amir Saberi , Farhad Farokhi , Girish N. Nair

In this paper, we investigate the quantization of the output of a binary input discrete memoryless channel that maximizing the mutual information between the input and the quantized output under an entropy-constrained of the quantized…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Thuan Nguyen , Thinh Nguyen

The capacity of a channel with an energy-harvesting (EH) encoder and a finite battery remains an open problem, even in the noiseless case. A key instance of this scenario is the binary EH channel (BEHC), where the encoder has a unit-sized…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Eli Shemuel , Oron Sabag , Haim H. Permuter

In this paper, capacity bounds for the two-user Interference Channel (IC) with cooperative receivers via conferencing links of finite capacities is investigated. The capacity results known for this communication scenario are limited to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-17 Reza K. Farsani , Amir K. Khandani

We obtain a maximizer for the quantum mutual information for classical information sent over the quantum qubit amplitude damping channel. This is achieved by limiting the ensemble of input states to antipodal states, in the calculation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-20 Tony Dorlas , Ciara Morgan

We study a nonlinear fiber optical channel impaired by cross-phase modulation and dispersion from the viewpoint of an interference channel. We characterize an outer bound on the capacity region of simultaneously achievable rate pairs,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Viswanathan Ramachandran , Astrid Barreiro , Gabriele Liga , Alex Alvarado