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This paper investigates guesswork over ordered statistics and formulates the achievable guesswork complexity of ordered statistics decoding (OSD) in binary additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels. The achievable guesswork complexity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Chentao Yue , Changyang She , Branka Vucetic , Yonghui Li

In the classic wiretap model, Alice wishes to reliably communicate to Bob without being overheard by Eve who is eavesdropping over a degraded channel. Systems for achieving that physical layer security often rely on an error correction code…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Muriel Médard , Ken R. Duffy

A new achievable rate for bit-metric decoding (BMD) is derived using random coding arguments. The rate expression can be evaluated for any input distribution, and in particular the bit-levels of binary input labels can be stochastically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-31 Georg Böcherer

We establish that a large, flexible class of long, high redundancy error correcting codes can be efficiently and accurately decoded with guessing random additive noise decoding (GRAND). Performance evaluation demonstrates that it is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Peihong Yuan , Muriel Medard , Kevin Galligan , Ken R. Duffy

We present finite-blocklength achievability bounds for the unsourced A-channel. In this multiple-access channel, users noiselessly transmit codewords picked from a common codebook with entries generated from a $q$-ary alphabet. At each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Alejandro Lancho , Alexander Fengler , Yury Polyanskiy

In addition to a proposed codeword, error correction decoders that provide blockwise soft output (SO) return an estimate of the likelihood that the decoding is correct. Following Forney, such estimates are traditionally only possible for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Jiewei Feng , Ken R. Duffy , Muriel Médard

GRAND features both soft-input and hard-input variants that are well suited to efficient hardware implementations that can be characterized with achievable average and worst-case decoding latency. This paper introduces step-GRAND, a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-28 Syed Mohsin Abbas , Marwan Jalaleddine , Chi-Ying Tsui , Warren J. Gross

To facilitate applications in IoT, 5G, and beyond, there is an engineering need to enable high-rate, low-latency communications. Errors in physical channels typically arrive in clumps, but most decoders are designed assuming that channels…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Wei An , Muriel Médard , Ken R. Duffy

We derive a new upper bound on the reliability function for channel coding over discrete memoryless channels. Our bounding technique relies on two main elements: (i) adding an auxiliary genie-receiver that reveals to the original receiver a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Anelia Somekh-Baruch

Proposals have been made to reduce the guesswork of Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding (GRAND) for binary linear codes by leveraging codebook structure at the expense of degraded block error rate (BLER). We establish one can preserve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Lukas Rapp , Muriel Médard , Ken R. Duffy

Quantum error correction codes (QECCs) play a central role in both quantum communications and quantum computation. Practical quantum error correction codes, such as stabilizer codes, are generally structured to suit a specific use, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-30 Diogo Cruz , Francisco A. Monteiro , Bruno C. Coutinho

We introduce a generalized low-density parity-check decoding framework for quantum Tanner codes utilizing soft-output guessing random additive noise decoding (SOGRAND). By soft-output decoding entire component codes, we mitigate trapping…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Lukas Rapp , Muriel Médard , Eugene Tang , Ken R. Duffy

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

This paper applies probabilistic amplitude shaping (PAS) to a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) aided trellis coded modulation (TCM) to achieve the short-blocklength random coding union (RCU) bound. In the transmitter, the equally likely…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Linfang Wang , Dan Song , Felipe Areces , Richard D. Wesel

This paper investigates the maximal channel coding rate achievable at a given blocklength $n$ and error probability $\epsilon$, when the codewords are subject to a long-term (i.e., averaged-over-all-codeword) power constraint. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-15 Wei Yang , Giuseppe Caire , Giuseppe Durisi , Yury Polyanskiy

his study presents a novel technique to estimate the computational complexity of sequential decoding using the Berry-Esseen theorem. Unlike the theoretical bounds determined by the conventional central limit theorem argument, which often…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-08-20 Po-Ning Chen , Yunghsiang S. Han , Carlos R. P. Hartmann , Hong-Bin Wu

We study universal decoding over unknown discrete additive channels determined by a finite-state (unifilar) random process. Aiming at low-complexity decoders, we study variants of noise-guessing decoders that use estimators for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Henrique K. Miyamoto , Sheng Yang

Randomized benchmarking (RB) is the gold standard for experimentally evaluating the quality of quantum operations. The current framework for RB is centered on groups and their representations, but this can be problematic. For example,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-22 Jianxin Chen , Dawei Ding , Cupjin Huang

We analyze the trade-off between the undetected error probability (i.e., the probability that the channel decoder outputs an erroneous message without detecting the error) and the total error probability in the short blocklength regime. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Alexander Sauter , A. Oguz Kislal , Giuseppe Durisi , Gianluigi Liva , Balazs Matuz , Erik G. Ström

Random jammers that overpower transmitted signals are a practical concern for many wireless communication protocols. As such, wireless receivers must be able to cope with standard channel noise and jamming (intentional or unintentional). To…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Furkan Ercan , Kevin Galligan , David Starobinski , Muriel Medard , Ken R. Duffy , Rabia Tugce Yazicigil