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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…

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As a medium for cold data storage, DNA stands out as it promises significant gains in storage capacity and lifetime. However, it comes with its own data processing challenges to overcome. Constrained codes over the DNA alphabet…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Canberk İrimağzı , Ahmed Hareedy

Due to its longevity and enormous information density, DNA is an attractive medium for archival storage. In this work, we study the fundamental limits and tradeoffs of DNA-based storage systems under a simple model, motivated by current…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Reinhard Heckel , Ilan Shomorony , Kannan Ramchandran , David N. C. Tse

As DNA data storage moves closer to practical deployment, minimizing sequencing coverage depth is essential to reduce both operational costs and retrieval latency. This paper addresses the recently studied Random Access Problem, which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Chen Wang , Eitan Yaakobi

This work presents a theoretical analysis of the probability of successfully retrieving data encoded with MDS codes (e.g., Reed-Solomon codes) in DNA storage systems. We study this probability under independent and identically distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Serge Kas Hanna

Due to their sequential nature, traditional DNA synthesis methods are expensive in terms of time and resources. They also fabricate multiple copies of the same strand, introducing redundancy. This redundancy can be leveraged to enhance the…

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In DNA-based data storage, DNA codes with biochemical constraints and error correction are designed to protect data reliability. Single-stranded DNA sequences with secondary structure avoidance (SSA) help to avoid undesirable secondary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Shu Liu , Chaoping Xing , Yaqian Zhang

Improved bounds on the blocklength required to communicate over binary-input channels using polar codes, below some given error probability, are derived. For that purpose, an improved bound on the number of non-polarizing channels is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-23 Dina Goldin , David Burshtein

Synthesis of DNA molecules offers unprecedented advances in storage technology. Yet, the microscopic world in which these molecules reside induces error patterns that are fundamentally different from their digital counterparts. Hence, to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Netanel Raviv , Moshe Schwartz , Eitan Yaakobi

We propose coding techniques that limit the length of homopolymers runs, ensure the GC-content constraint, and are capable of correcting a single edit error in strands of nucleotides in DNA-based data storage systems. In particular, for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Tuan Thanh Nguyen , Kui Cai , Kees A. Schouhamer Immink , Han Mao Kiah

As the mobile application landscape expands, wireless networks are tasked with supporting various connection profiles, including real-time communications and delay-sensitive traffic. Among many ensuing engineering challenges is the need to…

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DNA data storage offers a high-density, long-term alternative to traditional storage systems, addressing the exponential growth of digital data. Composite DNA extends this paradigm by leveraging mixtures of nucleotides to increase storage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Busra Tegin , Tolga M Duman

In this work, we obtain lower and upper bounds on the maximal transmission rate at a given codeword length $n$, average probability of error $\epsilon$ and power constraint $\bar{P}$, over a finite valued, block fading additive white…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Deekshith P K , Vinod Sharma

Insertion-deletion codes (insdel codes for short) are used for correcting synchronization errors in communications, and in other many interesting fields such as DNA storage, date analysis, race-track memory error correction and language…

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BATS codes were proposed for communication through networks with packet loss. A BATS code consists of an outer code and an inner code. The outer code is a matrix generation of a fountain code, which works with the inner code that comprises…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-15 Shenghao Yang , Tsz-Ching Ng , Raymond W. Yeung

Bounds on the reliability function for the discrete memoryless relay channel are derived using the method of types. Two achievable error exponents are derived based on partial decode-forward and compress-forward which are well-known…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Vincent Y. F. Tan

DNA storage is a promising archival data storage solution to today's big data problem. A DNA storage system encodes and stores digital data with synthetic DNA sequences and decodes DNA sequences back to digital data via sequencing. For…

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Martingale concentration inequalities constitute a powerful mathematical tool in the analysis of problems in a wide variety of fields ranging from probability and statistics to information theory and machine learning. Here we apply…

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We derive upper bounds on the rate of transmission of classical information over quantum channels by block codes with a given blocklength and error probability, for both entanglement-assisted and unassisted codes, in terms of a unifying…

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