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The paper provides a new perspective on peak- and average-constrained Gaussian channels. Such channels model optical wireless communication (OWC) systems which employ intensity-modulation with direct detection (IM/DD). First, the paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Sarah Bahanshal , Ahmad Abdel-Qader , Anas Chaaban

We characterize the capacity of Rayleigh block-fading multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels in the noncoherent setting where transmitter and receiver have no a priori knowledge of the realizations of the fading channel. We prove…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-02 Wei Yang , Giuseppe Durisi , Erwin Riegler

We consider a new formulation of a class of synchronization error channels and derive analytical bounds and numerical estimates for the capacity of these channels. For the binary channel with only deletions, we obtain an expression for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Aravind R. Iyengar , Paul H. Siegel , Jack K. Wolf

Spatially coupled codes have been of interest recently owing to their superior performance over memoryless binary-input channels. The performance is good both asymptotically, since the belief propagation thresholds approach capacity, as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-12-03 Aravind R. Iyengar , Paul H. Siegel , Rudiger L. Urbanke , Jack K. Wolf

Channels with synchronization errors, such as deletion and insertion errors, are crucial in DNA storage, data reconstruction, and other applications. These errors introduce memory to the channel, complicating its capacity analysis. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Busra Tegin , Tolga M Duman

The error probability of block codes sent under a non-uniform input distribution over the memoryless binary symmetric channel (BSC) and decoded via the maximum a posteriori (MAP) decoding rule is investigated. It is proved that the ratio of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Ling-Hua Chang , Po-Ning Chen , Fady Alajaji

The paper introduces new bounds on the asymptotic density of parity-check matrices and the achievable rates under ML decoding of binary linear block codes transmitted over memoryless binary-input output-symmetric channels. The lower bounds…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Gil Wiechman , Igal Sason

A method is proposed, called channel polarization, to construct code sequences that achieve the symmetric capacity $I(W)$ of any given binary-input discrete memoryless channel (B-DMC) $W$. The symmetric capacity is the highest rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Erdal Arikan

Block codes are considered for improving the reliability of messages stored in a computer memory with both stuck-at defects and random errors. It is assumed that the side information about the state of the defects is available to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Ivana Djurdjevic , Robert Mateescu , Cyril Guyot

Polar codes are a family of capacity-achieving codes that have explicit and low-complexity construction, encoding, and decoding algorithms. Decoding of polar codes is based on the successive-cancellation decoder, which decodes in a bit-…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Boaz Shuval , Ido Tal

Low-capacity scenarios have become increasingly important in the technology of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the next generation of wireless networks. Such scenarios require efficient and reliable transmission over channels with an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Mohammad Fereydounian , Hamed Hassani , Mohammad Vahid Jamali , Hessam Mahdavifar

We present two sequences of ensembles of non-systematic irregular repeat-accumulate codes which asymptotically (as their block length tends to infinity) achieve capacity on the binary erasure channel (BEC) with bounded complexity per…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-07-29 H. Pfister , I. Sason , R. Urbanke

We derive bounds on the asymptotic density of parity-check matrices and the achievable rates of binary linear block codes transmitted over memoryless binary-input output-symmetric (MBIOS) channels. The lower bounds on the density of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Gil Wiechman , Igal Sason

Consider the transmission of a polar code of block length $N$ and rate $R$ over a binary memoryless symmetric channel $W$ and let $P_e$ be the block error probability under successive cancellation decoding. In this paper, we develop new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-05 Marco Mondelli , S. Hamed Hassani , Rüdiger Urbanke

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

In this paper, we investigate the optimum way to allocate redundancy of finite-length nested codes for modern nonvolatile memories suffering from both permanent defects and transient errors (erasures or random errors). A nested coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Yongjune Kim , B. V. K. Vijaya Kumar

In this paper, we revisit the Recursive Projection-Aggregation (RPA) decoder, of Ye and Abbe (2020), for Reed-Muller (RM) codes. Our main contribution is an explicit upper bound on the probability of incorrect decoding, using the RPA…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-27 V. Arvind Rameshwar , V. Lalitha

We propose a new class of efficient decoding algorithms for Reed-Muller (RM) codes over binary-input memoryless channels. The algorithms are based on projecting the code on its cosets, recursively decoding the projected codes (which are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Min Ye , Emmanuel Abbe

Computing channel capacity is in general intractable because it is given by the limit of a sequence of optimization problems whose dimensionality grows to infinity. As a result, constant-sized characterizations of feedback or non-feedback…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Eray Unsal Atay , Eitan Levin , Venkat Chandrasekaran , Victoria Kostina

The problem of mismatched decoding for discrete memoryless channels is addressed. A mismatched cognitive multiple-access channel is introduced, and an inner bound on its capacity region is derived using two alternative encoding methods:…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-03 Anelia Somekh-Baruch