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Function-correcting codes are a coding framework designed to minimize redundancy while ensuring that specific functions or computations of encoded data can be reliably recovered, even in the presence of errors. The choice of metric is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Gyanendra K. Verma , Abhay Kumar Singh

In order to correct the pair-errors generated during the transmission of modern high-density data storage that the outputs of the channels consist of overlapping pairs of symbols, a new coding scheme named symbol-pair code is proposed. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Xiujing Zheng , Liqi Wang , Shixin Zhu

Function-correcting codes were introduced in the work "Function-Correcting Codes" (FCC) by Lenz et al. 2023, which provides a graphical representation for the problem of constructing function-correcting codes. We use this function dependent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Rohit Premlal , B. Sundar Rajan

Locally repairable codes (LRCs) are error correcting codes used in distributed data storage. Besides a global level, they enable errors to be corrected locally, reducing the need for communication between storage nodes. There is a close…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Antti Pöllänen , Thomas Westerbäck , Ragnar Freij-Hollanti , Camilla Hollanti

A detection system, modeled in a graph, is composed of "detectors" positioned at a subset of vertices in order to uniquely locate an ``intruder" at any vertex. \emph{Identifying codes} use detectors that can sense the presence or absence of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-06 Devin C. Jean , Suk J. Seo

In this paper, we construct Error-Correcting Graph Codes. An error-correcting graph code of distance $\delta$ is a family $C$ of graphs on a common vertex set of size $n$, such that if we start with any graph in $C$, we would have to modify…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Swastik Kopparty , Aditya Potukuchi , Harry Sha

Symbol-pair codes are block codes with symbol-pair metrics designed to protect against pair-errors that may occur in high-density data storage systems. MDS symbol-pair codes are optimal in the sense that it can attain the highest pair-error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Xilin Tang , Weixian Li , Wei Zhao

The minimum distance graph of a code has the codewords as vertices and edges exactly when the Hamming distance between two codewords equals the minimum distance of the code. A constructive proof for reconstructibility of an extended perfect…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-05-31 Ivan Yu. Mogilnykh , Patric R. J. Östergård , Olli Pottonen , Faina I. Solov'eva

In the \textit{Distributed Storage Systems} (DSSs), an encoded fraction of information is stored in the distributed fashion on different chunk servers. Recently a new paradigm of \textit{Fractional Repetition} (FR) codes have been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Krishna Gopal Benerjee , Manish K Gupta

Convolutional codes are a class of error-correcting codes that performs very well over erasure channels with low delay requirements. In particular, Maximum Distance Profile (MDP) convolutional codes, which are defined to have optimal column…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Zita Abreu , Julia Lieb , Raquel Pinto

Recently, a class of fractal surface codes (FSCs), has been constructed on fractal lattices with Hausdorff dimension $2+\epsilon$, which admits a fault-tolerant non-Clifford CCZ gate. We investigate the performance of such FSCs as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-27 Arpit Dua , Tomas Jochym-O'Connor , Guanyu Zhu

We ask what is the general framework for a quantum error correcting code that is defined by a sequence of measurements. Recently, there has been much interest in Floquet codes and space-time codes. In this work, we define and study the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Esther Xiaozhen Fu , Daniel Gottesman

Maximum distance separable (MDS) codes are optimal error-correcting codes in the sense that they provide the maximum failure-tolerance for a given number of parity nodes. Suppose that an MDS code with $k$ information nodes and $r=n-k$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-11 Min Ye , Alexander Barg

We examine an error-correcting coding framework in which each coded symbol is constrained to be a function of a fixed subset of the message symbols. With an eye toward distributed storage applications, we seek to design systematic codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-23 Wael Halbawi , Matthew Thill , Babak Hassibi

We consider a remote source coding problem subject to a {distortion function}. Contrary to the use of the classical separable distortion criterion, herein we consider the more general, $f$-separable distortion measure and study its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Photios A. Stavrou , Yanina Shkel , Marios Kountouris

Symbol-pair codes are proposed to combat pair-errors in symbol-pair read channels. The minimum symbol-pair distance is of significance in determining the error-correcting capability of a symbol-pair code. Maximum distance separable (MDS)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Junru Ma , Jinquan Luo

Linear complementary dual (LCD) maximum distance separable (MDS) codes are constructed to given specifications. For given $n$ and $r<n$, with $n$ or $r$ (or both) odd, MDS LCD $(n,r)$ codes are constructed over finite fields whose…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Ted Hurley

We construct error correcting codes for jointly transmitting a finite set of independent messages to an 'informed receiver' which has prior knowledge of the values of some subset of the messages as side information. The transmitter is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-08 Lakshmi Natarajan , Yi Hong , Emanuele Viterbo

Recently introduced Fair-Density Parity-Check (FDPC) codes, targeting high-rate applications, offer superior error-correction performance (ECP) compared to 5G Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) codes, given the same number of message-passing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Mohsen Moradi , Sheida Rabeti , Hessam Mahdavifar

In modern data storage systems, non-binary LDPC codes for recovering from disk failures are increasingly considered strong competitors to MDS codes such as Reed-Solomon codes. Since disk failures can be modeled as erasures, we analyze…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Irina Bocharova , Boris Kudryashov , Henk D. L. Hollmann , Vitaly Skachek