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We consider a two sensor distributed detection system transmitting a binary non-uniform source over a Gaussian multiple access channel (MAC). We model the network via binary sensors whose outputs are generated by binary symmetric channels…

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Clustered cell-free networking has been considered as an effective scheme to trade off between the low complexity of current cellular networks and the superior performance of fully cooperative networks. With clustered cell-free networking,…

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In this paper, we explore the mystery of synchronous CDMA as applied to wireless and optical communication systems under very general settings for the user symbols and the signature matrix entries. The channel is modeled with real/complex…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 K. Alishahi , S. Dashmiz , P. Pad , F. Marvasti , M. H. Shafinia , M. Mansouri

We consider a function computation problem in a three node wireless network. Nodes A and B observe two correlated sources $X$ and $Y$ respectively, and want to compute a function $f(X,Y)$. To achieve this, nodes A and B send messages to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Jithin Ravi , Bikash Kumar Dey

We study distributed composite optimization over networks: agents minimize a sum of smooth (strongly) convex functions, the agents' sum-utility, plus a nonsmooth (extended-valued) convex one. We propose a general unified algorithmic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-04 Jinming Xu , Ye Tian , Ying Sun , Gesualdo Scutari

In this work, we formulate the fixed-length distribution matching as a Bayesian inference problem. Our proposed solution is inspired from the compressed sensing paradigm and the sparse superposition (SS) codes. First, we introduce sparsity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Mohamad Dia , Vahid Aref , Laurent Schmalen

Semantic encoders and decoders for digital semantic communication (SC) often struggle to adapt to variations in unpredictable channel environments and diverse system designs. To address these challenges, this paper proposes a novel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-20 Yongjeong Oh , Joohyuk Park , Jinho Choi , Jihong Park , Yo-Seb Jeon

Data deduplication saves storage space by identifying and removing repeats in the data stream. Compared with traditional compression methods, data deduplication schemes are more time efficient and are thus widely used in large scale storage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Hao Lou , Farzad Farnoud

We consider a system in which two nodes take correlated measurements of a random source with time-varying and unknown statistics. The observations of the source at the first node are to be losslessly replicated with a given probability of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-27 Fangzhou Chen , Bin Li , Can Emre Koksal

We study the limits of communication efficiency for function computation in collocated networks within the framework of multi-terminal block source coding theory. With the goal of computing a desired function of sources at a sink, nodes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Nan Ma , Prakash Ishwar , Piyush Gupta

Coded caching (CC) can transform cache memory at network devices into an active communication resource. Prior studies have shown that CC can significantly enhance the achievable Degrees of Freedom (DoF) in multi-input multi-output (MIMO)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Mohammad NaseriTehrani , MohammadJavad Salehi , Antti Tölli

The two-receiver broadcast packet erasure channel with feedback and memory is studied. Memory is modeled using a finite-state Markov chain representing a channel state. Two scenarios are considered: (i) when the transmitter has causal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Michael Heindlmaier , Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti

Providing closed-form estimates of the decoding failure rate of iterative decoders for low- and moderate-density binary parity-check codes has attracted significant interest in the research community. Recently, interest in this topic has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Alessandro Annechini , Alessandro Barenghi , Gerardo Pelosi

The per-sample zero-dispersion channel model of the optical fiber is considered. It is shown that capacity is uniquely achieved by an input probability distribution that has continuous uniform phase and discrete amplitude that takes on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Jihad Fahs , Aslan Tchamkerten , Mansoor I. Yousefi

We study the following one-way asymmetric transmission problem, also a variant of model-based compressed sensing: a resource-limited encoder has to report a small set $S$ from a universe of $N$ items to a more powerful decoder (server). The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Alexandr Andoni , Javad Ghaderi , Daniel Hsu , Dan Rubenstein , Omri Weinstein

Consider the transmission of a polar code of block length $N$ and rate $R$ over a binary memoryless symmetric channel $W$ and let $P_e$ be the block error probability under successive cancellation decoding. In this paper, we develop new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-05 Marco Mondelli , S. Hamed Hassani , Rüdiger Urbanke

We derive upper and lower bounds for the error exponents of lossless streaming compression of two correlated sources under the blockwise and symbolwise settings. We consider the linear scaling regime in which the delay is a scalar multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-24 Lin Zhou , Vincent Yan Fu Tan , Mehul Motani

In distributed or federated optimization and learning, communication between the different computing units is often the bottleneck and gradient compression is widely used to reduce the number of bits sent within each communication round of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Laurent Condat , Kai Yi , Peter Richtárik

Computation codes in network information theory are designed for the scenarios where the decoder is not interested in recovering the information sources themselves, but only a function thereof. K\"orner and Marton showed for distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Jingge Zhu , Sung Hoon Lim , Michael Gastpar

Slepian-Wolf theorem is a well-known framework that targets almost lossless compression of (two) data streams with symbol-by-symbol correlation between the outputs of (two) distributed sources. However, this paper considers a different…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-06-20 Ahmad Beirami , Faramarz Fekri