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In network communication, the source often transmits messages at several different information rates within a session. How to deal with information transmission and network error correction simultaneously under different rates is introduced…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-04 Xuan Guang , Fang-Wei Fu , Zhen Zhang

In this paper, we investigate network nest coded modulation schemes for multiple access relay channels. The performance of the distributed systems which are based on distributed convolutional codes with network coded modulation is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Zihuai Lin

Maximum-distance-separable (MDS) codes are a class of erasure codes that are widely adopted to enhance the reliability of distributed storage systems (DSS). In (n, k) MDS coded DSS, the original data are stored into n distributed nodes in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-16 Sheng Guan , Haibin Kan , Xin Wang

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

Motivated by applications to DNA storage, we study reconstruction and list-reconstruction schemes for integer vectors that suffer from limited-magnitude errors. We characterize the asymptotic size of the intersection of error balls in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Hengjia Wei , Moshe Schwartz

A Viterbi-like decoding algorithm is proposed in this paper for generalized convolutional network error correction coding. Different from classical Viterbi algorithm, our decoding algorithm is based on minimum error weight rather than the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Hengjie Yang , Wangmei Guo

This work proposes an iterative channel estimation, detection and decoding (ICEDD) scheme for the uplink of multi-user multi-antenna systems assisted by multiple reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS)}. A novel iterative code-aided…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Roberto C. G. Porto , Rodrigo C. de Lamare

This paper has two contributions. First, we propose a novel coded matrix multiplication technique called Generalized PolyDot codes that advances on existing methods for coded matrix multiplication under storage and communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Sanghamitra Dutta , Ziqian Bai , Haewon Jeong , Tze Meng Low , Pulkit Grover

The performance of cloud-based small cell networks (C-SCNs) relies highly on a capacity-limited fronthaul, which degrade quality of service when it is saturated. Coded caching is a promising approach to addressing these challenges, as it…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Xiongwei Wu , Qiang Li , Victor C. M. Leung , P. C. Ching

We consider the reconstruction of a codeword from multiple noisy copies that are independently corrupted by insertions, deletions, and substitutions. This problem arises, for example, in DNA data storage. A common code construction uses a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Julian Streit , Franziska Weindel , Reinhard Heckel

Index coding is a source coding problem in which a broadcaster seeks to meet the different demands of several users, each of whom is assumed to have some prior information on the data held by the sender. If the sender knows its clients'…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-20 Eimear Byrne , Marco Calderini

In the emerging field of DNA storage, data is encoded as DNA sequences and stored. The data is read out again by sequencing the stored DNA. Nanopore sequencing is a new sequencing technology that has many advantages over other methods; in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Reyna Hulett , Shubham Chandak , Mary Wootters

Effective and reliable data retrieval is critical for the feasibility of DNA storage, and the development of random access efficiency plays a key role in its practicality and reliability. In this paper, we study the Random Access Problem,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Anina Gruica , Maria Montanucci , Ferdinando Zullo

In this paper, channel optimized distributed multiple description vector quantization (CDMD) schemes are presented for distributed source coding in symmetric and asymmetric settings. The CDMD encoder is designed using a deterministic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-20 Mehrdad Valipour , Farshad Lahouti

The exponential increase in storage demand and low lifespan of data storage devices has resulted in long-term archival and preservation emerging as a critical bottlenecks in data storage. In order to meet this demand, researchers are now…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-22 Xavier Pic , Raja Appuswamy

In a distributed storage network, reliability and bandwidth optimization can be provided by regenerating codes. Recently table based regenerating codes viz. DRESS (Distributed Replication-based Exact Simple Storage) codes has been proposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-18 Manish K Gupta , Anupam Agrawal , Deepak Yadav

We investigate the problem of maintaining an encoded distributed storage system when some nodes contain adversarial errors. Using the error-correction capabilities that are built into the existing redundancy of the system, we propose a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Theodoros K. Dikaliotis , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Tracey Ho

The coverage depth problem in DNA data storage is about minimizing the expected number of reads until all data is recovered. When they exist, MDS codes offer the best performance in this context. This paper focuses on the scenario where the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Matteo Bertuzzo , Alberto Ravagnani , Eitan Yaakobi

A fundamental problem in coding theory is the design of an efficient coding scheme that achieves the capacity of the additive white Gaussian (AWGN) channel. The main objective of this short note is to point out that by concatenating a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Shashank Vatedka , Navin Kashyap

With the advancement in technology, digital images can easily be transmitted and stored over the Internet. Encryption is used to avoid illegal interception of digital images. Encrypting large-sized colour images in their original dimension…