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Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Adeel Mahmood

In this paper, faulty successive cancellation decoding of polar codes for the binary erasure channel is studied. To this end, a simple erasure-based fault model is introduced to represent errors in the decoder and it is shown that, under…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-13 Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Andreas Burg

This work identifies information-theoretic quantities that are closely related to the required list size on average for successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding to implement maximum-likelihood decoding over general binary memoryless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Mustafa Cemil Coşkun , Henry D. Pfister

The Poltyrev bound provides a very tight upper bound on the decoding error probability when using binary linear codes for transmission over the binary symmetric channel and the additive white Gaussian noise channel, making use of the code's…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Tal Philosof , Ariel Doubchak , Amit Berman , Uri Erez

This paper investigates the ultra reliable and low latency communication (URLLC) performance of the IRS-aided MIMO system. The upper and lower bounds of the optimal average error probability (OAEP) for the coding rate 1/sqrt(Mn) of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Xin Zhang , Shenghui Song

This paper evaluates the bit error rate (BER) performance of underlay relay cognitive networks with decode-and-forward (DF) relays in arbitrary number of hops over Rayleigh fading with channel estimation errors. In order to facilitate the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-30 Khuong Ho-Van , Paschalis C. Sofotasios , Son Vo Que , Tuan Dang Anh , Thai Pham Quang , Lien Pham Hong

Fast SC decoding overcomes the latency caused by the serial nature of the SC decoding by identifying new nodes in the upper levels of the SC decoding tree and implementing their fast parallel decoders. In this work, we first present a novel…

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Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Karim Lounici , Katia Meziani , Benjamin Riu

This paper studies the parameters for which Reed-Muller (RM) codes over $GF(2)$ can correct random erasures and random errors with high probability, and in particular when can they achieve capacity for these two classical channels.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Emmanuel Abbe , Amir Shpilka , Avi Wigderson

Coherent network error correction is the error-control problem in network coding with the knowledge of the network codes at the source and sink nodes. With respect to a given set of local encoding kernels defining a linear network code, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-01 Shenghao Yang , Raymond W. Yeung , Chi-Kin Ngai

This paper addresses the performance of space-time coding over fading channels with impulsive noise which is known to accurately capture network interference. We use the symmetric alpha stable noise distribution and adopt two models which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-17 Junghoon Lee , Cihan Tepedelenlioglu

Neural networks achieve strong empirical performance, but robustness concerns still hinder deployment in safety-critical applications. Formal verification provides robustness guarantees, but current methods face a scalability-completeness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Wenting Li , Saif R. Kazi , Russell Bent , Duo Zhou , Huan Zhang

Bounds on the reliability function for the discrete memoryless relay channel are derived using the method of types. Two achievable error exponents are derived based on partial decode-forward and compress-forward which are well-known…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Vincent Y. F. Tan

This paper considers the performance of Reed-Muller (RM) codes transmitted over binary memoryless symmetric (BMS) channels under bitwise maximum-a-posteriori (bit-MAP) decoding. Its main result is that, for a fixed BMS channel, the family…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Galen Reeves , Henry D. Pfister

Locally repairable codes (LRCs) were originally introduced to enable efficient recovery from erasures in distributed storage systems by accessing only a small number of other symbols. While their structural properties-such as bounds and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Hoang Ly , Emina Soljanin , Philip Whiting

This paper focuses on the frozen set design for precoded polar codes decoded by the successive cancellation list (SCL) algorithm. We propose a novel frozen set design method, whose computational complexity is low due to the use of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Vera Miloslavskaya , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

We propose a new framework for constructing polar codes (i.e., selecting the frozen bit positions) for arbitrary channels, and tailored to a given decoding algorithm, rather than based on the (not necessarily optimal) assumption of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Ahmed Elkelesh , Moustafa Ebada , Sebastian Cammerer , Stephan ten Brink

This paper investigates properties of polar codes that can be potentially useful in real-world applications. We start with analyzing the performance of finite-length polar codes over the binary erasure channel (BEC), while assuming belief…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-12 Ali Eslami , H. Pishro-Nik

This paper proposes a novel maximum-likelihood (ML) soft-decision decoding framework for linear block codes, termed error-building decoding (EBD). The complete decoding process can be performed using only the parity-check matrix, without…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Guoda Qiu , Ling Liu , Yuejun Wei , Liping Li

The recently proposed SCLF decoding algorithm for polar codes improves the error-correcting performance of state-of-the-art SCL decoding. However, it comes at the cost of a higher complexity. In this paper, partitioned polar codes tailored…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Charles Pillet , Ilshat Sagitov , Pascal Giard