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Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding (GRAND) is a universal decoding algorithm that has been recently proposed as a practical way to perform maximum likelihood decoding. It generates a sequence of possible error patterns and applies them…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Carlo Condo

Guessing random additive noise decoding (GRAND) is a universal decoding paradigm that decodes by repeatedly testing error patterns until identifying a codeword, where the ordering of tests is generated by the received channel values. On one…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Li Wan , Huarui Yin , Wenyi Zhang

We introduce a novel approach to error correction decoding in the presence of additive alpha-stable noise, which serves as a model of interference-limited wireless systems. In the absence of modifications to decoding algorithms, treating…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Charles Wiame , Ken R. Duffy , Muriel Médard

The design and implementation of error correcting codes has long been informed by two fundamental results: Shannon's 1948 capacity theorem, which established that long codes use noisy channels most efficiently; and Berlekamp, McEliece, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Ken R. Duffy , Muriel Médard , Wei An

The ordered-reliability bits (ORB) variant of guessing random additive noise decoding (GRAND), known as ORBGRAND, achieves remarkably low time complexity at high code rates compared to other GRAND variants. However, its computational…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Mohammad Rowshan , Jinhong Yuan

In this work, we investigate guessing random additive noise decoding (GRAND) with quantized soft input. First, we analyze the achievable rate of ordered reliability bits GRAND (ORBGRAND), which uses the rank order of the reliability as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Peihong Yuan , Ken R. Duffy , Evan P. Gabhart , Muriel Médard

Guessing random additive noise decoding (GRAND) algorithm has emerged as an excellent decoding strategy that can meet both the high reliability and low latency constraints. This paper proposes a successive addition-subtraction algorithm to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Ming Zhan , Zhibo Pang , Kan Yu , Jing Xu , Fang Wu

Maximum-likelihood (ML) decoding can be used to obtain the optimal performance of error correction codes. However, the size of the search space and consequently the decoding complexity grows exponentially, making it impractical to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Mohammad Rowshan , Jinhong Yuan

Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding (GRAND) and its variants, known for their near-maximum likelihood performance, have been introduced in recent years. One such variant, Segmented GRAND, reduces decoding complexity by generating only…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Lukas Rapp , Jiewei Feng , Muriel Médard , Ken R. Duffy

We establish that during the execution of any Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding (GRAND) algorithm, an interpretable, useful measure of decoding confidence can be evaluated. This measure takes the form of a log-likelihood ratio (LLR)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Ken R. Duffy , Muriel Medard

Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding (GRAND) is a recently proposed universal decoding algorithm for linear error correcting codes. Since GRAND does not depend on the structure of the code, it can be used for any code encountered in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Syed Mohsin Abbas , Thibaud Tonnellier , Furkan Ercan , Warren J. Gross

We consider a transmitter that encodes data packets using network coding and broadcasts coded packets. A receiver employing network decoding recovers the data packets if a sufficient number of error-free coded packets are gathered. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Ioannis Chatzigeorgiou , Dmitry Savostyanov

We introduce Noise Recycling, a method that enhances decoding performance of channels subject to correlated noise without joint decoding. The method can be used with any combination of codes, code-rates and decoding techniques. In the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Alejandro Cohen , Amit Solomon , Ken R. Duffy , Muriel Médard

We present a novel method for error correction in the presence of fading channel estimation errors (CEE). When such errors are significant, considerable performance losses can be observed if the wireless transceiver is not adapted. Instead…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Charles Wiame , Ken R. Duffy , Muriel Médard

This paper is concerned with a search-number-reduced guessing random additive noise decoding (GRAND) algorithm for linear block codes, called partially constrained GRAND (PC-GRAND). In contrast to the original GRAND, which guesses error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Yixin Wang , Jifan Liang , Xiao Ma

Parallelism has become a central concern in modern decoding frameworks aiming to meet stringent throughput and latency requirements. Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding (GRAND) is a recently proposed decoding paradigm that tests…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Li Wan , Huarui Yin , Wenyi Zhang

Channel decoding is a challenging task in communication channels exhibiting memory effects. In this work, we apply the recently proposed decoding paradigm of guessing random additive noise decoding (GRAND) to channels with memory, focusing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Zhuang Li , Wenyi Zhang

We establish that it is possible to extract accurate blockwise and bitwise soft output from Guessing Codeword Decoding with minimal additional computational complexity by considering it as a variant of Guessing Random Additive Noise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Ken R. Duffy , Peihong Yuan , Joseph Griffin , Muriel Medard

Random jammers that overpower transmitted signals are a practical concern for many wireless communication protocols. As such, wireless receivers must be able to cope with standard channel noise and jamming (intentional or unintentional). To…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Furkan Ercan , Kevin Galligan , David Starobinski , Muriel Medard , Ken R. Duffy , Rabia Tugce Yazicigil

We introduce a new algorithm for realizing Maximum Likelihood (ML) decoding in discrete channels with or without memory. In it, the receiver rank orders noise sequences from most likely to least likely. Subtracting noise from the received…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Ken R. Duffy , Jiange Li , Muriel Médard