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This paper presents an achievability bound that evaluates the exact probability of error of an ensemble of random codes that are decoded by a minimum distance decoder. Compared to the state-of-the-art which demands exponential computation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Ioannis Papoutsidakis , Angela Doufexi , Robert J. Piechocki

Unambiguous unitary maps and unambiguous unitary quantum channels are introduced and some of their properties are derived. These properties ensure certain simple form for the measurements involved in realizing an unambiguous unitary quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-14 Shengjun Wu , Xuemei Chen

Quantum error-correcting codes (QECCs) require high encoding rate in addition to high threshold unless a sufficiently large number of physical qubits are available. The many-hypercube (MHC) codes defined as the concatenation of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-19 Ryota Nakai , Hayato Goto

Two channels are equivalent if their maximum likelihood (ML) decoders coincide for every code. We show that this equivalence relation partitions the space of channels into a generalized hyperplane arrangement. With this, we define a coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Rafael G. L. D'Oliveira , Marcelo Firer

Motivated by applications to distributed storage, Gopalan \textit{et al} recently introduced the interesting notion of information-symbol locality in a linear code. By this it is meant that each message symbol appears in a parity-check…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-14 N. Prakash , Govinda M. Kamath , V. Lalitha , P. Vijay Kumar

We consider the Additive White Gaussian Noise channel with Binary Phase Shift Keying modulation. Our aim is to enable an algebraic hard decision Bounded Minimum Distance decoder for a binary block code to exploit soft information obtained…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-05-18 Christian Senger , Vladimir Sidorenko , Victor Zyablov

This work applies earlier results on Quasi-Cyclic (QC) LDPC codes to the codes specified in six separate IEEE 802 standards, specifying wireless communications from 54 MHz to 60 GHz. First, we examine the weight matrices specified to upper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-10 Brian K. Butler

In this paper, we present an optimal metric function on average, which leads to a significantly low decoding computation while maintaining the superiority of the polarization-adjusted convolutional (PAC) codes' error-correction performance.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Mohsen Moradi

Geometrically local quantum codes, which are error correction codes embedded in $\mathbb{R}^D$ with checks acting only on qubits within a fixed spatial distance, have garnered significant interest. Recently, it has been demonstrated how to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Quinten Eggerickx , Adam Wills , Ting-Chun Lin , Kristiaan De Greve , Min-Hsiu Hsieh

The recently introduced atomic norm minimization (ANM) framework for parameter estimation is a promising candidate towards low overhead channel estimation in wireless communications. However, previous works on ANM-based channel estimation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Stelios Stefanatos , Mahdi Barzegar Khalilsarai , Gerhard Wunder

Stationary collectors reading wireless, battery powered smart meters, often operate in harsh channel conditions to cut network installation cost to a minimum, challenging the individual link to each meter. The desired performance measure is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-05-22 Rasmus Melchior Jacobsen , Petar Popovski

We consider an approach to fault tolerant quantum computing based on a simple error detecting code operating as the substrate for a conventional surface code. We develop a customised decoder to process the information about the likely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-11 Xiaosi Xu , Qi Zhao , Xiao Yuan , Simon C. Benjamin

Reading channels where $b$-tuples of adjacent symbols are read at every step have e.g.\ applications in storage. Corresponding bounds and constructions of codes for the $b$-symbol metric, especially the pair-symbol metric where $b=2$, were…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Sascha Kurz

We address the problem of bounding below the probability of error under maximum likelihood decoding of a binary code with a known distance distribution used on a binary symmetric channel. An improved upper bound is given for the maximum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Alexander Barg , Andrew McGregor

We study codes with parameters of $q$-ary shortened Hamming codes, i.e., $(n=(q^m-q)/(q-1), q^{n-m}, 3)_q$. Firstly, we prove the fact mentioned in 1998 by Brouwer et al. that such codes are optimal, generalizing it to a bound for multifold…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-29 Minjia Shi , Rongsheng Wu , Denis S. Krotov

In this paper, we propose a spatial coded modulation (SCM) scheme, which improves the accuracy of the active antenna detection by coding over the transmit antennas. Specifically, the antenna activation pattern in the SCM corresponds to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Junshan Luo , Fanggang Wang , Shilian Wang

Error syndromes for heavy hexagonal code and other topological codes such as surface code have typically been decoded by using Minimum Weight Perfect Matching (MWPM) based methods. Recent advances have shown that topological codes can be…

Holographic multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems constitute a promising technology in support of next-generation wireless communications, thus paving the way for a smart programmable radio environment. However, despite its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Yuanbin Chen , Ying Wang , Zhaocheng Wang , Ping Zhang

This paper investigates the channel estimation for holographic MIMO systems by unmasking their distinctions from the conventional one. Specifically, we elucidate that the channel estimation, subject to holographic MIMO's electromagnetically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Yuanbin Chen , Ying Wang , Zhaocheng Wang , Zhu Han

Few-weight codes have been constructed and studied for many years, since their fascinating relations to finite geometries, strongly regular graphs and Boolean functions. Simplex codes are one-weight Griesmer $[\frac{q^k-1}{q-1},k…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Xu Pan , Hao Chen , Hongwei Liu , Shengwei Liu