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We propose locally rewritable codes (LWC) for resistive memories inspired by locally repairable codes (LRC) for distributed storage systems. Small values of repair locality of LRC enable fast repair of a single failed node since the lost…

Quasi-cyclic (QC) low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes are a class of LDPC codes with a simple construction facilitating hardware implementation while achieving excellent performance. In this paper, we introduce an algorithm that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Haizheng Li , Sisi Miao , Laurent Schmalen

Low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes are among the most prominent error-correction schemes. They find application to fortify various modern storage, communication, and computing systems. Protograph-based (PB) LDPC codes offer many degrees…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Ata Tanrıkulu , Mete Yıldırım , Ahmed Hareedy

Spatially-coupled low-density parity-check codes attract much attention due to their capacity-achieving performance and a memory-efficient sliding-window decoding algorithm. On the other hand, the encoder needs to solve large linear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-07 Koji Tazoe , Kenta Kasai , Kohichi Sakaniwa

We present a decode-and-forward transmission scheme based on spatially-coupled low-density parity-check (SC-LDPC) codes for a network consisting of two (possibly correlated) sources, one relay, and one destination. The links between the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-17 Stefan Schwandter , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Gerald Matz

In this paper, we give an overview of spatially coupled turbo codes (SC-TCs), the spatial coupling of parallel and serially concatenated convolutional codes, recently introduced by the authors. For presentation purposes, we focus on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-03 Alexandre Graell i Amat , Saeedeh Moloudi , Michael Lentmaier

This paper considers the problem of source coding with side information at the decoder, also called Slepian-Wolf source coding scheme. In practical applications of this coding scheme, the statistical relation between the source and the side…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Fangping Ye , Elsa Dupraz , Zeina Mheich , Karine Amis

Raptor codes are rateless codes that achieve the capacity on the binary erasure channels. However the maximum degree of optimal output degree distribution is unbounded. This leads to a computational complexity problem both at encoders and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-07 Kosuke Sakata , Kenta Kasai , Kohichi Sakaniwa

In this letter, we propose a reliability-based windowed decoding scheme for spatially-coupled (SC) low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. To mitigate the error propagation along the sliding windowed decoder of the SC LDPC codes, a partial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Peng Kang , Yixuan Xie , Lei Yang , Jinhong Yuan

In this paper we consider the generalization of binary spatially coupled low-density parity-check (SC-LDPC) codes to finite fields GF$(q)$, $q\geq 2$, and develop design rules for $q$-ary SC-LDPC code ensembles based on their iterative…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Lai Wei , David G. M. Mitchell , Thomas E. Fuja , Daniel J. Costello

Sparse coding (SC) is attracting more and more attention due to its comprehensive theoretical studies and its excellent performance in many signal processing applications. However, most existing sparse coding algorithms are nonconvex and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Xiaodong Feng , Zhiwei Tang , Sen Wu

Sparse superposition codes, also called sparse regression codes (SPARCs), are a class of codes for efficient communication over the AWGN channel at rates approaching the channel capacity. In a standard SPARC, codewords are sparse linear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Cynthia Rush , Kuan Hsieh , Ramji Venkataramanan

The rack-aware storage model improves repair efficiency by exploiting locality within racks to minimize cross-rack traffic in a distributed storage system. While the partially cooperative repair model presents a solution for multiple node…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Hengming Zhao , Dianhua Wu , Minquan Cheng

A novel coding strategy for block-based compressive sens-ing named spatially directional predictive coding (SDPC) is proposed, which efficiently utilizes the intrinsic spatial cor-relation of natural images. At the encoder, for each block…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Jian Zhang , Debin Zhao , Feng Jiang

Reconciliation is a crucial procedure in post-processing of continuous variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD) system, which is used to make two distant legitimate parties share identical corrected keys. The adaptive reconciliation is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-30 Xuan Wen , Qiong Li , Haokun Mao , Yi Luo , Bingze Yan

In this paper, we investigate novel strategies for generating rate-compatible (RC) irregular low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes with short/moderate block lengths. We propose three puncturing and two extension schemes, which are designed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-22 J. Liu , R. C. de Lamare

Generalized low-density parity-check (GLDPC) codes are a class of LDPC codes in which the standard single parity check (SPC) constraints are replaced by constraints defined by a linear block code. These stronger constraints typically result…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-19 David G. M. Mitchell , Pablo M. Olmos , Michael Lentmaier , Daniel J. Costello

This paper produces a rate-compatible protograph LDPC code at 1k information blocklength with superior performance in both waterfall and error floor regions. The design of such codes has proved difficult in the past because the constraints…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-22 Thuy Van Nguyen , Aria Nosratinia , Dariush Divsalar

Next-generation wireless communication systems impose much stricter requirements for transmission rate, latency, and reliability. The peak data rate of 6G networks should be no less than 1 Tb/s, which is comparable to existing long-haul…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Kirill Andreev , Pavel Rybin , Alexey Frolov

In this paper, we study a new class of high-rate spatially coupled LDPC (SC-LDPC) codes based on the convolutional self-orthogonal codes (CSOCs) first introduced by Massey. The SC-LDPC codes are constructed by treating the irregular graph…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Daniel J. Costello, , Min Zhu , David G. M. Mitchell , Michael Lentmaier