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Recently, network coding technique has emerged as a promising approach that supports reliable transmission over wireless loss channels. In existing protocols where users have no interest in considering the encoded packets they had in coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-09-16 Zhiheng Zhou , Liang Zhou , Yuanquan Tan , Xing Wang

Large language model (LLM)-powered multi-agent systems (MAS) enable agents to communicate and share information, achieving strong performance on complex tasks. However, this communication also creates an attack surface where malicious…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Lingxi Zhang , Guangtao Zheng , Hanjie Chen

A hybrid communication network with a common analog signal and an independent digital data stream as input to each node in a multiple access network is considered. The receiver/base-station has to estimate the analog signal with a given…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Viswanathan Ramachandran , Sibi Raj B Pillai , Vinod M Prabhakaran

Many multi-agent systems require inter-agent communication to properly achieve their goal. By learning the communication protocol alongside the action protocol using multi-agent reinforcement learning techniques, the agents gain the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Astrid Vanneste , Thomas Somers , Simon Vanneste , Kevin Mets , Tom De Schepper , Siegfried Mercelis , Peter Hellinckx

We describe a new synchronous and distributed medium access control (MAC) protocol for multihop wireless networks that provides bandwidth guarantees to unicast connections. Our MAC protocol is based on a slotted time division multiple…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Jennifer Andreoli-Fang , George Kondylis

A new single-letter achievable rate region is proposed for the two-user discrete memoryless multiple-access channel(MAC) with noiseless feedback. The proposed region includes the Cover-Leung rate region [1], and it is shown that the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-31 Ramji Venkataramanan , S. Sandeep Pradhan

The Accumulative Iterative Code (AIC) proposed in this work is a new error correcting code for channels with feedback. AIC sends the information message to the receiver in a number of transmissions, where the initial transmission contains…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Alberto G. Perotti , Branislav M. Popovic , Anahid R. Safavi

The capacity region of a two-transmitter Gaussian multiple access channel (MAC) under average input power constraints is studied, when the receiver employs a zero-threshold one-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC). It is proved that the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Borzoo Rassouli , Morteza Varasteh , Deniz Gunduz

Hinging on ideas from physical-layer network coding, some promising proposals of coded random access systems seek to improve system performance (while preserving low complexity) by means of packet repetitions and decoding of linear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Adriano Pastore , Paul de Kerret , Monica Navarro , David Gregoratti , David Gesbert

Many existing medium access control (MAC) protocols utilize past information (e.g., the results of transmission attempts) to adjust the transmission parameters of users. This paper provides a general framework to express and evaluate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-08-03 Jaeok Park , Mihaela van der Schaar

Grant-free access schemes are candidates to support future massive multiple access applications owing to their capability to reduce control signaling and latency. As a promising class of grant-free schemes, coded random access schemes can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Lorenzo Valentini , Marco Chiani , Enrico Paolini

We prove the strong converse for the $N$-source Gaussian multiple access channel (MAC). In particular, we show that any rate tuple that can be supported by a sequence of codes with asymptotic average error probability less than one must lie…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-19 Silas L. Fong , Vincent Y. F. Tan

The optimization of joint source and channel coding for a sequence of numerous progressive packets is a challenging problem. Further, the problem becomes more complicated if the space-time coding is also involved with the optimization in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Meesue Shin , Laura Toni , Sang-Hyo Kim , Seok-Ho Chang

We investigate the impact of (possible) deviations of the probability distribution of key values from a uniform distribution for the information-theoretic strong, or perfect, message authentication code. We found a simple expression for the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Boris Ryabko

Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) in which the spreading code assignment to users contains a random element has recently become a cornerstone of CDMA research. The random element in the construction is particular attractive as it…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-13 Jack Raymond , David Saad

This paper studies a two-user state-dependent Gaussian multiple-access channel (MAC) with state noncausally known at one encoder. Two scenarios are considered: i) each user wishes to communicate an independent message to the common…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-05 Wei Yang , Yingbin Liang , Shlomo Shamai , H. Vincent Poor

Network coding can significantly improve the transmission rate of communication networks with packet loss compared with routing. However, using network coding usually incurs high computational and storage costs in the network devices and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-13 Shenghao Yang , Raymond W. Yeung

In this paper, a communication-efficient multi-processor compressed sensing framework based on the approximate message passing algorithm is proposed. We perform lossy compression on the data being communicated between processors, resulting…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-01-19 Puxiao Han , Junan Zhu , Ruixin Niu , Dror Baron

Aggregate signatures allow anyone to combine different signatures signed by different signers on different messages into a single short signature. An ideal aggregate signature scheme is an identity-based aggregate signature (IBAS) scheme…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Kwangsu Lee , Dong Hoon Lee

We consider a communication problem in which an update of the source message needs to be conveyed to one or more distant receivers that are interested in maintaining specific linear functions of the source message. The setting is one in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-07 N. Prakash , Muriel Medard