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Cyclic redundancy check (CRC) codes check if a codeword is correctly received. This paper presents an algorithm to design CRC codes that are optimized for the code-specific error behavior of a specified feedforward convolutional code. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-10 Chung-Yu Lou , Babak Daneshrad , Richard D. Wesel

Coded distributed computing was recently introduced to mitigate the effect of stragglers on distributed computing. This paper combines ideas of approximate computing with coded computing to further accelerate computation. We propose…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Shahrzad Kiani , Stark C. Draper

In this paper, we propose a class of codes, referred to as random staircase generator matrix codes (SGMCs), which have staircase-like generator matrices. In the infinite-length region, we prove that the random SGMC is capacity-achieving…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Qianfan Wang , Yiwen Wang , Yixin Wang , Jifan Liang , Xiao Ma

Low-density parity-check (LDPC) convolutional codes have been shown to exhibit excellent performance under low-complexity belief-propagation decoding [1], [2]. This phenomenon is now termed threshold saturation via spatial coupling. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-30 Santhosh Kumar , Andrew J. Young , Nicolas Macris , Henry D. Pfister

The paper investigates the distributed estimation problem under low bit rate communications. Based on the signal-comparison (SC) consensus protocol under binary-valued communications, a new consensus+innovations type distributed estimation…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-25 Jieming Ke , Xiaodong Lu , Yanlong Zhao , Ji-Feng Zhang

We propose a new family of spatially coupled product codes, called sub-block rearranged staircase (SR-staircase) codes. Each SR-staircase code block is constructed by encoding rearranged preceding code blocks and new information blocks,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Min Qiu , Jinhong Yuan

Although quantum key distribution (QKD) comes from the development of quantum theory, the implementation of a practical QKD system does involve a lot of classical process, such as key reconciliation and privacy amplification, which is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-26 Mo Li , Chun-Mei Zhang , Zhen-Qiang Yin , Wei Chen , Chuan Wang , Zheng-Fu Han

Several authors have proposed spatially-coupled (or convolutional-like) variants of product codes (PCs). In this paper, we focus on a parametrized family of generalized PCs that recovers some of these codes (e.g., staircase and block-wise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-29 Christian Häger , Henry D. Pfister , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Fredrik Brännström

Distributed Orthogonal Space-Time Block Codes (DOSTBCs) achieving full diversity order and single-symbol ML decodability have been introduced recently for cooperative networks and an upper-bound on the maximal rate of such codes along with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-08-31 J. Harshan , B. Sundar Rajan

The problem of synthesizing stochastic explicit model predictive control policies is known to be quickly intractable even for systems of modest complexity when using classical control-theoretic methods. To address this challenge, we present…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Ján Drgoňa , Sayak Mukherjee , Aaron Tuor , Mahantesh Halappanavar , Draguna Vrabie

Data encoding is a fundamental step in emerging computing paradigms, particularly in stochastic computing (SC) and hyperdimensional computing (HDC), where it plays a crucial role in determining the overall system performance and hardware…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Mehran Shoushtari Moghadam , Sercan Aygun , M. Hassan Najafi

In this paper, we study the application of spatially coupled LDPC codes with sub-block locality for space division multiplexing. We focus on the information exchange between the sub-blocks and compare decoding strategies with respect to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Haizheng Li , Laurent Schmalen

Flexibility at hardware level is the main driving force behind adaptive systems whose aim is to realise microarhitecture deconfiguration 'online'. This feature allows the software/hardware stack to tolerate drastic changes of the workload…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2016-12-28 Ana Lava , Mahdi Jelodari Mamaghani , Siamak Mohammadi , Steve Furber

Adaptive transmission schemes are a crucial aspect of the radio design for future wireless networks. The paper studies the performance of two classes of adaptive transmission schemes in a cellular downlink. One class is based on physical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Amogh Rajanna , Carl P. Dettmann

In this work we propose RELDEC, a novel approach for sequential decoding of moderate length low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. The main idea behind RELDEC is that an optimized decoding policy is subsequently obtained via reinforcement…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Salman Habib , Allison Beemer , Joerg Kliewer

Typically, locally repairable codes (LRCs) and regenerating codes have been studied independently of each other, and it has not been clear how the parameters of one relate to those of the other. In this paper, a novel connection between…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Toni Ernvall , Thomas Westerbäck , Ragnar Freij-Hollanti , Camilla Hollanti

Distributed storage systems for large-scale applications typically use replication for reliability. Recently, erasure codes were used to reduce the large storage overhead, while increasing data reliability. A main limitation of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-06 Dimitris S. Papailiopoulos , Alexandros G. Dimakis

While Separate Source-Channel Coding (SSCC) retains the practical benefits of modular system design, its effectiveness in noisy text transmission is fundamentally constrained by the fragility of autoregressive source decoding. In low-SNR…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Ziqiong Wang , Rongpeng Li

In this paper, we study shared cache coded caching (SC-CC): a set of caches serves a larger set of users; each user access one cache, and a cache may serve many users. For this problem, under uncoded placement, Parrinello, \"Unsal, and Elia…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Niladri Das , B. Sundar Rajan

It was recently shown that spatial coupling of individual low-density parity-check codes improves the belief-propagation threshold of the coupled ensemble essentially to the maximum a posteriori threshold of the underlying ensemble. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-08-03 Vahid Aref , Rüdiger L. Urbanke