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This paper studies the problem of constructing codes correcting deletions in arrays. Under this model, it is assumed that an $n\times n$ array can experience deletions of rows and columns. These deletion errors are referred to as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Rawad Bitar , Lorenz Welter , Ilia Smagloy , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Eitan Yaakobi

Levenshtein introduced the problem of constructing $k$-deletion correcting codes in 1966, proved that the optimal redundancy of those codes is $O(k\log N)$, and proposed an optimal redundancy single-deletion correcting code (using the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Jin Sima , Jehoshua Bruck

Burst errors involving simultaneous insertions, deletions, and substitutions occur in practical scenarios, including DNA data storage and document synchronization, motivating developments of channel codes that can correct such errors. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Yajuan Liu , Tolga M. Duman

This paper proposes an erasure correcting code and its systematic form for the distributed storage system. The proposed codes are encoded by exclusive OR and bit-level shift operation. By the shift operation, the encoded packets are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Yuta Hanaki , Takayuki Nozaki

Motivated by applications to DNA-storage, flash memory, and magnetic recording, we study perfect burst-correcting codes for the limited-magnitude error channel. These codes are lattices that tile the integer grid with the appropriate error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Hengjia Wei , Moshe Schwartz

The problem of correcting deletions has received significant attention, partly because of the prevalence of these errors in DNA data storage. In this paper, we study the problem of correcting a consecutive burst of at most $t$ deletions in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Shuche Wang , Yuanyuan Tang , Jin Sima , Ryan Gabrys , Farzad Farnoud

We study error-correcting codes for permutations under the infinity norm, motivated by a novel storage scheme for flash memories call rank modulation. In this scheme, a set of $n$ flash cells are combined to create a single virtual…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-08-02 Itzhak Tamo , Moshe Schwartz

Recently, DNA storage has surfaced as a promising alternative for data storage, presenting notable benefits in terms of storage capacity, cost-effectiveness in maintenance, and the capability for parallel replication. Mathematically, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Yi Lu , Yun Ma , Chenghao Li , Xin Zhang , Guangxiang Si

The goal of this paper is to construct systematic error-correcting codes for permutations and multi-permutations in the Kendall's $\tau$-metric. These codes are important in new applications such as rank modulation for flash memories. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-22 Sarit Buzaglo , Eitan Yaakobi , Tuvi Etzion , Jehoshua Bruck

This thesis makes several significant contributions to the theory of both Regenerating (RG) and Locally Recoverable (LR) codes. The two principal contributions are characterizing the optimal rate of an LR code designed to recover from $t$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-13 S. B. Balaji , P. Vijay Kumar

In this paper, we investigate codes designed to correct two bursts of deletions, where each burst has a length of exactly $b$, where $b>1$. The previous best construction, achieved through the syndrome compression technique, had a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zuo Ye , Yubo Sun , Wenjun Yu , Gennian Ge , Ohad Elishco

In this work, we introduce maximally recoverable codes with locality and availability. We consider locally repairable codes (LRCs) where certain subsets of $ t $ symbols belong each to $ N $ local repair sets, which are pairwise disjoint…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Umberto Martínez-Peñas , V. Lalitha

In this paper, we investigate the problem of designing $(n, N; \mathcal{B})$-reconstruction codes for $N\in \{14,11,9,5\}$, where $\mathcal{B}$ is the single-deletion single-substitution ball function that maps a sequence to the set of all…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Yuling Li , Yubo Sun , Gennian Ge

Racetrack memory is a non-volatile memory engineered to provide both high density and low latency, that is subject to synchronization or shift errors. This paper describes a fast coding solution, in which delimiter bits assist in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-14 Alireza Vahid , Georgios Mappouras , Daniel J. Sorin , Robert Calderbank

In this paper we study codes for correcting deletable errors in binary words, where each bit is either retained, substituted, erased or deleted and the total number of errors is much smaller compared to the length of the codeword. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Ghurumuruhan Ganesan

In this paper, we present an explicit construction of list-decodable codes for single-deletion and single-substitution with list size two and redundancy 3log n+4, where n is the block length of the code. Our construction has lower…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Wentu Song , Kui Cai , Tuan Thanh Nguyen

We present a constraint-coding scheme to correct asymmetric magnitude-$1$ errors in multi-level non-volatile memories. For large numbers of such errors, the scheme is shown to deliver better correction capability compared to known…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Evyatar Hemo , Yuval Cassuto

Two-dimensional error-correcting codes, where codewords are represented as $n \times n$ arrays over a $q$-ary alphabet, find important applications in areas such as QR codes, DNA-based storage, and racetrack memories. Among the possible…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Wenhao Liu , Zhengyi Jiang , Zhongyi Huang , Hanxu Hou

Due to its high data density and longevity, DNA is considered a promising medium for satisfying ever-increasing data storage needs. However, the diversity of errors that occur in DNA sequences makes efficient error-correction a challenging…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Yuanyuan Tang , Farzad Farnoud

This work constructs codes that are efficiently decodable from a constant fraction of \emph{worst-case} insertion and deletion errors in three parameter settings: (i) Binary codes with rate approaching 1; (ii) Codes with constant rate for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Venkatesan Guruswami , Ray Li