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We study low-delay error correction codes for streaming recovery over a class of packet-erasure channels that introduce both burst-erasures and isolated erasures. We propose a simple, yet effective class of codes whose parameters can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-02 Ahmed Badr , Ashish Khisti , Wai-Tian Tan , John Apostolopoulos

The matrix completion problem provides a unifying lens through which many fundamental problems in coding theory can be viewed. In this paper, we investigate Locally Recoverable Codes (LRCs) with Maximal Recoverability (MR) and Maximum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Sakshi Dang , Julia Lieb , Pedro Soto , Alex Sprintson

In this paper, we design erasure-correcting codes for channels with burst and random erasures, when a strict decoding delay constraint is in place. We consider the sliding-window-based packet erasure model proposed by Badr et al., where any…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-18 M. Nikhil Krishnan , Deeptanshu Shukla , P. Vijay Kumar

In this work, we introduce convolutional codes for network-error correction in the context of coherent network coding. We give a construction of convolutional codes that correct a given set of error patterns, as long as consecutive errors…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-08-06 K. Prasad , B. Sundar Rajan

In this paper, we develop the theory of convolutional codes over finite commutative chain rings. In particular, we focus on maximum distance profile (MDP) convolutional codes and we provide a characterization of these codes, generalizing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Gianira N. Alfarano , Anina Gruica , Julia Lieb , Joachim Rosenthal

It is known that maximum distance separable and maximum distance profile convolutional codes exist over large enough finite fields of any characteristic for all parameters $(n,k,\delta)$. It has been conjectured that the same is true for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-01-03 Ryan Hutchinson

This paper explores the design of convolutional codes for varying constraint lengths, focusing on their role in error correction in digital communication systems. Convolutional codes are essential in achieving reliable data transmission…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Parag Dhounde , Avinash Bhute

A systematic convolutional encoder of rate $(n-1)/n$ and maximum degree $D$ generates a code of free distance at most ${\cal D} = D+2$ and, at best, a column distance profile (CDP) of $[2,3,\ldots,{\cal D}]$. A code is \emph{Maximum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Ángela Barbero , Øyvind Ytrehus

An erasure channel with a fixed alphabet size $q$, where $q \gg 1$, is studied. It is proved that over any erasure channel (with or without memory), Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) codes achieve the minimum probability of error (assuming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-06-06 Shervan Fashandi , Shahab Oveis Gharan , Amir K. Khandani

We propose a new class of error correction codes for low-delay streaming communication. We consider an online setup where a source packet arrives at the encoder every $M$ channel uses, and needs to be decoded with a maximum delay of $T$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ahmed Badr , Pratik Patil , Ashish Khisti , Wai-Tian Tan , John Apostolopoulos

Erasures are the primary type of errors in physical systems dominated by leakage errors. While quantum error correction (QEC) using stabilizer codes can combat erasure errors, it remains unknown which constructions achieve capacity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Kao-Yueh Kuo , Yingkai Ouyang

Convolutional codes are constructed, designed and analysed using row and/or block structures of unit algebraic schemes. Infinite series of such codes and of codes with specific properties are derived. Properties are shown algebraically and…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2018-04-04 Ted Hurley

Partial maximum distance separable (PMDS) codes are a kind of erasure codes where the nodes are divided into multiple groups with each forming an MDS code with a smaller code length, thus they allow repairing a failed node with only a few…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Jie Li , Xiaohu Tang , Hanxu Hou , Yunghsiang S. Han , Bo Bai , Gong Zhang

In this paper we construct multidimensional codes with high dimension. The codes can correct high dimensional errors which have the form of either small clusters, or confined to an area with a small radius. We also consider small number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-04-27 Eitan Yaakobi , Tuvi Etzion

An $(m,n,a,b)$-tensor code consists of $m\times n$ matrices whose columns satisfy `$a$' parity checks and rows satisfy `$b$' parity checks (i.e., a tensor code is the tensor product of a column code and row code). Tensor codes are useful in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Joshua Brakensiek , Sivakanth Gopi , Visu Makam

The column Hamming distance of a convolutional code determines the error correction capability when streaming over a class of packet erasure channels. We introduce a metric known as the column sum rank, that parallels column Hamming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-19 Rafid Mahmood , Ahmed Badr , Ashish Khisti

Maximum distance separable convolutional codes are characterized by the property that the free distance reaches the generalized Singleton bound, which makes them optimal for error correction. However, the existing constructions of such…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Zita Abreu , Raquel Pinto , Rita Simões

Phased burst errors (PBEs) are bursts of errors occurring at one or more known locations. The correction of PBEs is a classical topic in coding theory, with prominent applications such as the design of array codes for memory systems or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Sebastian Bitzer , Andrea Di Giusto , Alberto Ravagnani , Eitan Yaakobi

When computing systems can tolerate the effects of errors or erasures in their communicated data values, they can trade this tolerance for improved resource efficiency. One method for enabling this tradeoff in the I/O subsystems of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Phillip Stanley-Marbell , Paul Hurley

Maximum distance separable (MDS) array codes are XOR-based optimal erasure codes that are particularly suitable for use in disk arrays. This paper develops an innovative method to build MDS array codes from an elegant class of nested…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Nattakan Puttarak , Phisan Kaewprapha , Boon Chong Ng , Jing , Li