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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

The design and implementation of error correcting codes has long been informed by two fundamental results: Shannon's 1948 capacity theorem, which established that long codes use noisy channels most efficiently; and Berlekamp, McEliece, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Ken R. Duffy , Muriel Médard , Wei An

Within the Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding (GRAND) family, ordered reliability bits GRAND (ORBGRAND) has received considerable attention for its hardware-friendly exploitation of soft information. Existing information-theoretic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Zhuang Li , Wenyi Zhang

We propose an approximation of maximum-likelihood detection in ISI channels based on linear programming or message passing. We convert the detection problem into a binary decoding problem, which can be easily combined with LDPC decoding. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Mohammad H. Taghavi , Paul H. Siegel

In this paper, we distinguish two guessing algorithms for decoding binary linear codes. One is the guessing noise decoding (GND) algorithm, and the other is the guessing codeword decoding (GCD) algorithm. We prove that the GCD is a maximum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Xiao Ma

The capacity of the Gaussian cognitive interference channel, a variation of the classical two-user interference channel where one of the transmitters (referred to as cognitive) has knowledge of both messages, is known in several parameter…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Stefano Rini , Daniela Tuninetti , Natasha Devroye

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

To meet the Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communication (URLLC) needs of modern applications, there have been significant advances in the development of short error correction codes and corresponding soft detection decoders. A substantial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Ken R. Duffy , Moritz Grundei , Muriel Medard

Guessing random additive noise decoding (GRAND) is a code-agnostic decoding method that iteratively guesses the noise pattern affecting the received codeword. The number of noise sequences to test depends on the noise realization. Thus,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-10 Filippo Christen , Darja Nonaca , Christoph Studer

Supporting ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (URLLC) is a challenge in current wireless systems. Channel codes that generate large codewords improve reliability but necessitate the use of interleavers, which introduce undesirable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Sahar Allahkaram , Francisco A. Monteiro , Ioannis Chatzigeorgiou

In this paper the cognitive interference channel with a common message, a variation of the classical cognitive interference channel in which the cognitive message is decoded at both receivers, is studied. For this channel model new outer…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-21 Stefano Rini , Carolin Huppert

Provable lower bounds are presented for the information rate I(X; X+S+N) where X is the symbol drawn from a fixed, finite-size alphabet, S a discrete-valued random variable (RV) and N a Gaussian RV. The information rate I(X; X+S+N) serves…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-10-04 Seongwook Jeong , Jaekyun Moon

This paper considers a transmitter, which uses random linear coding (RLC) to encode data packets. The generated coded packets are broadcast to one or more receivers. A receiver can recover the data packets if it gathers a sufficient number…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Ioannis Chatzigeorgiou

An additive noise channel is considered, in which the distribution of the noise is nonparametric and unknown. The problem of learning encoders and decoders based on noise samples is considered. For uncoded communication systems, the problem…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Nir Weinberger

We adopt an information-theoretic framework to analyze the generalization behavior of the class of iterative, noisy learning algorithms. This class is particularly suitable for study under information-theoretic metrics as the algorithms are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Ibrahim Issa , Amedeo Roberto Esposito , Michael Gastpar

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

Provable lower bounds are presented for the information rate I(X; X+S+N) where X is the symbol drawn independently and uniformly from a finite-size alphabet, S is a discrete-valued random variable (RV) and N is a Gaussian RV. It is well…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-10-05 Seongwook Jeong , Jaekyun Moon

There are rising scenarios in communication systems, where the noises exhibit impulsive behavior and are not adequate to be modeled as the Gaussian distribution. The generalized Gaussian distribution instead is an effective model to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Jinzhe Pan , Wai Ho Mow

We revisit the Gaussian broadcast channel (GBC) and explore the rate region achieved by purely discrete inputs with treating interference as noise (TIN) decoding. Specifically, we introduce a simple scheme based on superposition coding with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Yujie Shao , Min Qiu

The capacity of a relay channel with inter-symbol interference (ISI) and additive colored Gaussian noise is examined under an input power constraint. Prior results are used to show that the capacity of this channel can be computed by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-03-02 Chiranjib Choudhuri , Urbashi Mitra