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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

Erasure coding is a storage-efficient alternative to replication for achieving reliable data backup in distributed storage systems. During the storage process, traditional erasure codes require a unique source node to create and upload all…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Lluis Pamies-Juarez , Anwitaman Datta , Frédérique Oggier

The increasing demand for data storage has prompted the exploration of new techniques, with molecular data storage being a promising alternative. In this work, we develop coding schemes for a new storage paradigm that can be represented as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Boaz Moav , Ryan Gabrys , Eitan Yaakobi

In this paper, we design the optimal rate capacity approaching irregular Low-Density Parity-Check code ensemble over Binary Erasure Channel, by using practical Semi-Definite Programming approach. Our method does not use any relaxation or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-28 H. Tavakoli , M. Ahmadian , M. Reza Peyghami

A (tandem) duplication of length $ k $ is an insertion of an exact copy of a substring of length $ k $ next to its original position. This and related types of impairments are of relevance in modeling communication in the presence of…

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

In this paper we study error-correcting codes for the storage of data in synthetic deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). We investigate a storage model where a data set is represented by an unordered set of $M$ sequences, each of length $L$. Errors…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Andreas Lenz , Paul H. Siegel , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Eitan Yaakobi

In this work, we derive upper bounds on the cardinality of tandem duplication and palindromic deletion correcting codes by deriving the generalized sphere packing bound for these error types. We first prove that an upper bound for tandem…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-17 Andreas Lenz , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Eitan Yaakobi

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

Motivated by the sequence reconstruction problem initiated by Levenshtein, reconstruction codes were introduced by Cai \emph{et al}. to combat errors when a fixed number of noisy channels are available. The central problem on this topic is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Rongsheng Wu , Xiande Zhang

We consider data transmission over a network where each edge is an erasure channel and where the inner nodes transmit a random linear combination of their incoming information. We distinguish two channel models in this setting, the row and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-18 Heide Gluesing-Luerssen , Anna-Lena Horlemann-Trautmann

In this paper, we construct systematic $q$-ary two-deletion correcting codes and burst-deletion correcting codes, where $q\geq 2$ is an even integer. For two-deletion codes, our construction has redundancy $5\log n+O(\log q\log\log n)$ and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Wentu Song , Kui Cai

We study the application of polar codes in deletion channels by analyzing the cascade of a binary erasure channel (BEC) and a deletion channel. We show how polar codes can be used effectively on a BEC with a single deletion, and propose a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Eldho K. Thomas , Vincent Y. F. Tan , Alexander Vardy , Mehul Motani

Because of its high data density and longevity, DNA is emerging as a promising candidate for satisfying increasing data storage needs. Compared to conventional storage media, however, data stored in DNA is subject to a wider range of errors…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Yuanyuan Tang , Farzad Farnoud

Ternary channels can be used to model the behavior of some memory devices, where information is stored in three different levels. In this paper, error correcting coding for a ternary channel where some of the error transitions are not…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-05-31 Nicolas Bitouze , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Eirik Rosnes

Due to their sequential nature, traditional DNA synthesis methods are expensive in terms of time and resources. They also fabricate multiple copies of the same strand, introducing redundancy. This redundancy can be leveraged to enhance the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Frederik Walter , Yonatan Yehezkeally

The persistent storage of big data requires advanced error correction schemes. The classical approach is to use error correcting codes (ECCs). This work studies an alternative approach, which uses the redundancy inherent in data itself for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Pulakesh Upadhyaya , Anxiao Jiang

Transmit a codeword $x$, that belongs to an $(\ell-1)$-deletion-correcting code of length $n$, over a $t$-deletion channel for some $1\le \ell\le t<n$. Levenshtein, in 2001, proposed the problem of determining $N(n,\ell,t)+1$, the minimum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Van Long Phuoc Pham , Keshav Goyal , Han Mao Kiah

Due to its high data density and longevity, DNA is considered a promising medium for satisfying ever-increasing data storage needs. However, the diversity of errors that occur in DNA sequences makes efficient error-correction a challenging…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Yuanyuan Tang , Farzad Farnoud

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

As sensing and instrumentation play an increasingly important role in systems controlled over wired and wireless networks, the need to better understand delay-sensitive communication becomes a prime issue. Along these lines, this article…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Parimal Parag , Richard D. Wesel