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This paper studies channel coding for the discrete memoryless multiple-access channel with a given (possibly suboptimal) decoding rule. A multi-letter successive decoding rule depending on an arbitrary non-negative decoding metric is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-08 Jonathan Scarlett , Alfonso Martinez , Albert Guillén i Fàbregas

We consider multiple transmitters aiming to communicate their source signals (e.g., images) over a multiple access channel (MAC). Conventional communication systems minimize interference by orthogonally allocating resources (time and/or…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Selim F. Yilmaz , Can Karamanli , Deniz Gunduz

A mechanism called switched feedback is introduced; under switched feedback, each channel output goes forward to the receiver(s) or back to the transmitter(s) but never both. By studying the capacity of the Multiple-Access Channel (MAC)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Oliver Kosut , Michael Langberg , Michelle Effros

In this work, we consider the problem of coding for the half-duplex non-orthogonal amplify-and-forward (NAF) cooperative channel where the transmitter to relay and the inter-relay links are highly reliable. We derive bounds on the diversity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Ghassan M. Kraidy , Nicolas Gresset , Joseph J. Boutros

We investigate how to exploit intermittent feedback for interference management. Focusing on the two-user linear deterministic interference channel, we completely characterize the capacity region. We find that the characterization only…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Can Karakus , I-Hsiang Wang , Suhas Diggavi

A major challenge of wireless multicast is to be able to support a large number of users while simultaneously maintaining low delay and low feedback overhead. In this paper, we develop a joint coding and feedback scheme named Moving Window…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-09-23 Fei Wu , Yin Sun , Yang Yang , Kannan Srinivasan , Ness B. Shroff

We study the problem of simulating a two-user multiple-access channel (MAC) over a multiple access network of noiseless links. Two encoders observe independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) copies of a source random variable each,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Gowtham R. Kurri , Viswanathan Ramachandran , Sibi Raj B. Pillai , Vinod M. Prabhakaran

A new deep-neural-network (DNN) based error correction encoder architecture for channels with feedback, called Deep Extended Feedback (DEF), is presented in this paper. The encoder in the DEF architecture transmits an information message…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Anahid Robert Safavi , Alberto G. Perotti , Branislav M. Popovic , Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi , Deniz Gunduz

Motivated by the growing application of wireless multi-access networks with stringent delay constraints, we investigate the Gaussian multiple access channel (MAC) in the finite blocklength regime. Building upon information spectrum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-11 Ebrahim MolavianJazi , J. Nicholas Laneman

Coded distributed computing (CDC) is a new technique proposed with the purpose of decreasing the intense data exchange required for parallelizing distributed computing systems. Under the famous MapReduce paradigm, this coded approach has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Federico Brunero , Petros Elia

This paper proposes a novel joint non-binary network-channel code for the Time-Division Decode-and-Forward Multiple Access Relay Channel (TD-DF-MARC), where the relay linearly combines -- over a non-binary finite field -- the coded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Mikel Hernaez , Pedro M. Crespo , Javier Del Ser

Deep learning aided codes have been shown to improve code performance in feedback codes in high noise regimes due to the ability to leverage non-linearity in code design. In the additive white Gaussian broadcast channel (AWGN-BC), the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-24 Jacqueline Malayter , Christopher Brinton , David Love

This work explores the rate-reliability-complexity limits of the quasi-static K-user multiple access channel (MAC), with or without feedback. Using high-SNR asymptotics, the work first derives bounds on the computational resources required…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-03 Hsiao-feng , Lu , Petros Elia , Arun Singh

End-to-end autoencoder (AE) learning has the potential of exceeding the performance of human-engineered transceivers and encoding schemes, without a priori knowledge of communication-theoretic principles. In this work, we aim to understand…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Jinxiang Song , Christian Häger , Jochen Schröder , Timothy J. O'Shea , Erik Agrell , Henk Wymeersch

We design a cross-layer approach to aid in develop- ing a cooperative solution using multi-packet reception (MPR), network coding (NC), and medium access (MAC). We construct a model for the behavior of the IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol and apply…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-07-21 Jason Cloud , Linda Zeger , Muriel Médard

A conflict-avoiding code (CAC) of length L and weight w is used for deterministic multiple-access without feedback. When the number of simultaneous active users is less than or equal to w, such a code is able to provide a hard guarantee…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Tsai-Lien Wong , Kangkang Xu , Yuan-Hsun Lo , Kenneth W. Shum , Yijin Zhang

Multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems are a prime candidate for use in massive connection density in machine-type communication (MTC) networks. One of the key challenges of MTC networks is to obtain accurate channel state…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Jiho Song , Byungju Lee , Song Noh , Jong-Ho Lee

Variable-length feedback coding has the potential to significantly enhance communication reliability in finite block length scenarios by adapting coding strategies based on real-time receiver feedback. Designing such codes, however, is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Wenwei Lai , Yulin Shao , Yu Ding , Deniz Gunduz

We propose a two-layer coding architecture for communication of multiple users over a shared slotted medium enabling joint collision resolution and decoding. Each user first encodes its information bits with an outer code for reliability,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-18 MohammadReza Ebrahimi , Farshad Lahouti , Victoria Kostina

Deep learning has enabled significant advances in feedback-based channel coding, yet existing learned schemes remain fundamentally limited: they employ fixed block lengths, suffer degraded performance at high rates, and cannot fully exploit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yu Ding , Yulin Shao