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An insdel refers to a deletion or an insertion, and an edit refers to an insdel or a substitution. In this paper, we consider the segmented single-insdel (resp. single-edit) channel, where the channel's input bit stream is partitioned into…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Zhen Li , Xuan He , Xiaohu Tang

We introduce the sum channel, a new channel model motivated by applications in distributed storage and DNA data storage. In the error-free case, it takes as input an $\ell$-row binary matrix and outputs an $(\ell+1)$-row matrix whose first…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Lyan Abboud , Eitan Yaakobi

Locally Decodable Codes (LDCs) are error-correcting codes for which individual message symbols can be quickly recovered despite errors in the codeword. LDCs for Hamming errors have been studied extensively in the past few decades, where a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Jeremiah Blocki , Kuan Cheng , Elena Grigorescu , Xin Li , Yu Zheng , Minshen Zhu

An error-erasure channel is a simple noise model that introduces both errors and erasures. While the two types of errors can be corrected simultaneously with error-correcting codes, it is also known that any linear code allows for first…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Yu Tsunoda , Yuichiro Fujiwara , Hana Ando , Peter Vandendriessche

This paper studies \emph{linear} and \emph{affine} error-correcting codes for correcting synchronization errors such as insertions and deletions. We call such codes linear/affine insdel codes. Linear codes that can correct even a single…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Kuan Cheng , Venkatesan Guruswami , Bernhard Haeupler , Xin Li

Insertion and deletion (insdel for short) errors are synchronization errors in communication systems caused by the loss of positional information in the message. Reed-Solomon codes have gained a lot of interest due to its encoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Tai Do Duc , Shu Liu , Ivan Tjuawinata , Chaoping Xing

This paper studies codes that correct bursts of deletions. Namely, a code will be called a $b$-burst-deletion-correcting code if it can correct a deletion of any $b$ consecutive bits. While the lower bound on the redundancy of such codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-16 Clayton Schoeny , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Ryan Gabrys , Eitan Yaakobi

We study two basic problems regarding edit error, i.e. document exchange and error correcting codes for edit errors (insdel codes). For message length $n$ and edit error upper bound $k$, it is known that in both problems the optimal sketch…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Kuan Cheng , Zhengzhong Jin , Xin Li , Ke Wu

We develop upper bounds on code size for an independent and identically distributed deletion and insertion channels for a given code length and target frame error probability. The bounds are obtained as a variation of a general converse…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Ruslan Morozov , Tolga Mete Duman

We study segmented burst-deletion channels motivated by the observation that synchronization errors commonly occur in a bursty manner in real-world settings. In this channel model, transmitted sequences are implicitly divided into…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Yajuan Liu , Tolga M. Duman

We present many new results related to reliable (interactive) communication over insertion-deletion channels. Synchronization errors, such as insertions and deletions, strictly generalize the usual symbol corruption errors and are much…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-22 Bernhard Haeupler , Amirbehshad Shahrasbi , Ellen Vitercik

Insertion-deletion codes (insdel codes for short) play an important role in synchronization error correction. The higher the minimum insdel distance, the more insdel errors the code can correct. Haeupler and Shahrasbi established the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Bocong Chen , Guanghui Zhang

Motivated by communication channels in which the transmitted sequences are subject to random permutations, as well as by certain DNA storage systems, we study the error control problem in settings where the information is stored/transmitted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Mladen Kovačević , Vincent Y. F. Tan

Function-correcting codes are designed to reduce redundancy of codes when protecting function values of information against errors. As generalizations of Hamming weights and Lee weights over $ \mathbb{Z}_{4} $, homogeneous weights are used…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Huiying Liu , Hongwei Liu

In this paper, we study the problem of delay minimization in NFV-based networks. In such systems, the ultimate goal of any request is to compute a sequence of functions in the network, where each function can be computed at only a specific…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Behrooz Tahmasebi , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , Saeedeh Parsaeefard , Babak Hossein Khalaj

An indel refers to a single insertion or deletion, while an edit refers to a single insertion, deletion or substitution. In this paper, we investigate codes that combat either a single indel or a single edit and provide linear-time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Kui Cai , Yeow Meng Chee , Ryan Gabrys , Han Mao Kiah , Tuan Thanh Nguyen

In this paper, we study how often unique decoding from $t$ insertions or $t$ deletions occurs for error correcting codes. Insertions and deletions frequently occur in synchronization problems and DNA, a medium which is beginning to be used…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-29 Kayvon Mazooji

We introduce synchronization strings as a novel way of efficiently dealing with synchronization errors, i.e., insertions and deletions. Synchronization errors are strictly more general and much harder to deal with than commonly considered…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Bernhard Haeupler , Amirbehshad Shahrasbi

The process of DNA-based data storage (DNA storage for short) can be mathematically modelled as a communication channel, termed DNA storage channel, whose inputs and outputs are sets of unordered sequences. To design error correcting codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Wentu Song , Kui Cai , Kees A. Schouhamer Immink

One of the main challenges in developing racetrack memory systems is the limited precision in controlling the track shifts, that in turn affects the reliability of reading and writing the data. A current proposal for combating deletions in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Jin Sima , Jehoshua Bruck