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In this paper, we relate a feedback channel with any finite-order autoregressive moving-average (ARMA) Gaussian noises to a variant of the Kalman filter. In light of this, we obtain relatively explicit lower bounds on the feedback capacity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Song Fang , Quanyan Zhu

For memoryless channels with continuous input alphabets, deterministic identification (DI) typically exhibits a linearithmic ($n\log n$) message growth. However, the exact DI capacity has long remained open due to a persistent gap between…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Pau Colomer , Christian Deppe , Holger Boche , Andreas Winter

Incremental redundancy with ACK/NACK feedback produces a variable-length stop-feedback (VLSF) code constrained to have $m$ decoding times, with an ACK/NACK feedback to the transmitter at each decoding time. This paper focuses on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Hengjie Yang , Recep Can Yavas , Victoria Kostina , Richard D. Wesel

This work proves new results on the ability of binary Reed-Muller codes to decode from random errors and erasures. We obtain these results by proving improved bounds on the weight distribution of Reed-Muller codes of high degrees.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Ori Sberlo , Amir Shpilka

In this paper we show how to attain the capacity of discrete symmetric channels with polynomial time decoding complexity by considering iterated $(U|U+V)$ constructions with Reed-Solomon code or algebraic geometry code components. These…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-26 Irene Marquez-Corbella , Jean-Pierre Tillich

Berlekamp and Zigangirov completely determined the capacity error function for binary error correcting codes with noiseless feedback. It is still an unsolved problem if the upper bound for the capacity error function in the non-binary case…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Christian Deppe , Vladimir Lebedev

We consider coding schemes for computationally bounded channels, which can introduce an arbitrary set of errors as long as (a) the fraction of errors is bounded with high probability by a parameter $p$ and (b) the process which adds the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-01 Venkatesan Guruswami , Adam Smith

The paper introduces ensembles of accumulate-repeat-accumulate (ARA) codes which asymptotically achieve capacity on the binary erasure channel (BEC) with {\em bounded complexity}, per information bit, of encoding and decoding. It also…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Henry D. Pfister , Igal Sason

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

Given a probability distribution $\mathcal{D}$ over the non-negative integers, a $\mathcal{D}$-repeat channel acts on an input symbol by repeating it a number of times distributed as $\mathcal{D}$. For example, the binary deletion channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Francisco Pernice , Ray Li , Mary Wootters

This paper considers the achievability and converse bounds on the maximal channel coding rate at a given blocklength and error probability over AWGN channels. The problem stems from covert communication with Gaussian codewords. By…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Xinchun Yu , Shuangqin Wei , Yuan Luo

In this paper we show that any sequence of infinite lattice constellations which is good for the unconstrained Gaussian channel can be shaped into a capacity-achieving sequence of codes for the power-constrained Gaussian channel under…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Antonio Campello , Daniel Dadush , Cong Ling

We derive upper and lower bounds for the covert capacity of Additive White Gaussian Noise channels when measuring reliability in terms of the average error probability and covertness in terms of Kullback-Leibler divergence. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-18 C. Bouette , L. Luzzi , M. Bloch

Given that approximate quantum error-correcting (AQEC) codes have a potentially better performance than perfect quantum error correction codes, it is pertinent to quantify their performance. While quantum weight enumerators establish some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-14 Yingkai Ouyang , Ching-Yi Lai

We consider an ensemble of constant composition codes that are subsets of linear codes: while the encoder uses only the constant-composition subcode, the decoder operates as if the full linear code was used, with the motivation of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Neri Merhav , Georg Bocherer

We show that linear codes combined with rejection sampling can yield a capacity-achieving scheme for simulating additive exchangeable noise channels. Specifically, our scheme achieves an amount of communication within $\log e + 1$ bits from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jianguo Zhao , Cheuk Ting Li

Lattice coding and decoding have been shown to achieve the capacity of the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. This was accomplished using a minimum mean-square error scaling and randomization to transform the AWGN channel into a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-08 Charles H. Swannack , Uri Erez , Gregory W. Wornell

This paper investigates polar codes for the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. The scaling exponent $\mu$ of polar codes for a memoryless channel $q_{Y|X}$ with capacity $I(q_{Y|X})$ characterizes the closest gap between the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Silas L. Fong , Vincent Y. F. Tan

DNA storage has emerged as a promising solution for large-scale and long-term data preservation. Among various error types, insertions are the most frequent errors occurring in DNA sequences, where the inserted symbol is often identical or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Hengfeng Liu , Chunming Tang , Cuiling Fan

This paper studies the performance of block coding on an additive white Gaussian noise channel under different power limitations at the transmitter. Lower bounds are presented for the minimum error probability of codes satisfying maximal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Gonzalo Vazquez-Vilar