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Based on Arimoto's work in 1978, we propose an iterative algorithm for computing the capacity of a discrete memoryless classical-quantum channel with a finite input alphabet and a finite dimensional output, which we call the Blahut-Arimoto…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-26 Haobo Li , Ning Cai

The deletion channel is the simplest point-to-point communication channel that models lack of synchronization. Despite significant effort, little is known about its capacity, and even less about optimal coding schemes. In this paper we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-05-02 Yashodhan Kanoria , Andrea Montanari

We study the problem of estimating a parametric discrete memoryless channel \( p(y \mid x; \boldsymbol{\theta}) \) when the transmitter selects its input distribution \( \pi \) to maximize mutual information under the true parameter \(…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Hassan Tavakoli , Thinh Nguyen , Bella Bose

The one-bit deletion and duplication channel is investigated. An input to this channel consists of a block of bits which experiences either a deletion, or a duplication, or remains unchanged. For this channel a capacity expression is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-10 Hamed Mirghasemi , Aslan Tchamkerten

This paper is concerned with the computation of the capacity region of a continuous, Gaussian vector broadcast channel (BC) with covariance matrix constraints. Since the decision variables of the corresponding optimization problem are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Tian Jiao , Yanlin Geng , Anthony Man-Cho So , Yonghui Chu , Zai Yang

We develop upper bounds on code size for an independent and identically distributed deletion and insertion channels for a given code length and target frame error probability. The bounds are obtained as a variation of a general converse…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Ruslan Morozov , Tolga Mete Duman

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

The Blahut-Arimoto algorithm is a well-known method to compute classical channel capacities and rate-distortion functions. Recent works have extended this algorithm to compute various quantum analogs of these quantities. In this paper, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Kerry He , James Saunderson , Hamza Fawzi

The optical fiber multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channel with intensity modulation and direct detection (IM/DD) per spatial path is treated. The spatial dimensions represent the multiple modes employed for transmission and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Metodi P. Yankov , Francesco Da Ros , Søren Forchhammer , Lars Gruner-Nielsen

In this paper, we present a novel way for solving the main problem of designing the capacity approaching irregular low-density parity-check (LDPC) code ensemble over binary erasure channel (BEC). The proposed method is much simpler, faster,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-02 H. Tavakoli , M. Ahmadian Attari , M. R. Peyghami

We introduce a new family of concatenated codes with an outer low-density parity-check (LDPC) code and an inner low-density generator matrix (LDGM) code, and prove that these codes can achieve capacity under any memoryless binary-input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Chun-Hao Hsu , Achilleas Anastasopoulos

We consider the problem of estimating an upper bound on the capacity of a memoryless channel with unknown channel law and continuous output alphabet. A novel data-driven algorithm is proposed that exploits the dual representation of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Christian Häger , Erik Agrell

We propose an iterative method for approximately computing the capacity of discrete memoryless channels, possibly under additional constraints on the input distribution. Based on duality of convex programming, we derive explicit upper and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-06 Tobias Sutter , David Sutter , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani , John Lygeros

We propose a method to increase the capacity achieved by uniform prior in discrete memoryless channels (DMC) with high input cardinality. It consists in appropriately reducing the input set. Different design criteria of the input subset are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-10-28 Amine Mezghani , Michel T. Ivrlac , Josef A. Nossek

One of the fundamental problems of information theory, since its foundation by Shannon in 1948, has been the computation of the capacity of a discrete memoryless channel, a quantity expressing the maximum rate at which information can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-29 G. Beretta , G. Chiarot , A. E. Cinà , M. Pelillo

The problem of mismatched decoding for discrete memoryless channels is addressed. A mismatched cognitive multiple-access channel is introduced, and an inner bound on its capacity region is derived using two alternative encoding methods:…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-03 Anelia Somekh-Baruch

In this paper, we introduce a new practical and general method for solving the main problem of designing the capacity approaching, optimal rate, irregular low-density parity-check (LDPC) code ensemble over binary erasure channel (BEC).…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 H. Tavakoli , M. Ahmadian Attari , M. Reza Peyghami

An approach is established for maximizing the Lower bound on the Mismatch capacity (hereafter abbreviated as LM rate), a key performance bound in mismatched decoding, by optimizing the channel input probability distribution. Under a fixed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Lingyi Chen , Shitong Wu , Xinwei Li , Huihui Wu , Hao Wu , Wenyi Zhang

Data synchronization is a fundamental problem with applications in diverse fields such as cloud storage, genomics, and distributed systems. This paper addresses the challenge of synchronizing two files, one of which is a subsequence of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Haolun , Ni , Lev Tauz , Ryan Gabrys , Lara Dolecek

This paper is focused on the performance analysis of binary linear block codes (or ensembles) whose transmission takes place over independent and memoryless parallel channels. New upper bounds on the maximum-likelihood (ML) decoding error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Igal Sason , Idan Goldenberg