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In this work, a new upper bound for average error probability of a two-user discrete memoryless (DM) multiple-access channel (MAC) is derived. This bound can be universally obtained for all discrete memoryless MACs with given input and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-01-09 Ali Nazari , Achilleas Anastasopoulos , S. Sandeep Pradhan

We consider the problem of minimizing upper bounds and maximizing lower bounds on information rates of stationary and ergodic discrete-time channels with memory. The channels we consider can have a finite number of states, such as partial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Parastoo Sadeghi , Pascal O. Vontobel , Ramtin Shams

We consider the problem of solving a distributed optimization problem using a distributed computing platform, where the communication in the network is limited: each node can only communicate with its neighbours and the channel has a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-04-10 Ye Pu , Melanie N. Zeilinger , Colin N. Jones

We propose to use the concept of the Hamming bound to derive the optimal criteria for learning hash codes with a deep network. In particular, when the number of binary hash codes (typically the number of image categories) and code length…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Xiang Xu , Xiaofang Wang , Kris M. Kitani

This paper studies multiuser random coding techniques for channel coding with a given (possibly suboptimal) decoding rule. For the mismatched discrete memoryless multiple-access channel, an error exponent is obtained that is tight with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Jonathan Scarlett , Alfonso Martinez , Albert Guillén i Fàbregas

We consider communication over the binary erasure channel (BEC) using low-density parity-check (LDPC) code and belief propagation (BP) decoding. The bit error probability for infinite block length is known by density evolution and it is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-01-23 Ryuhei Mori , Kenta Kasai , Tomoharu Shibuya , Kohichi Sakaniwa

For the polar codes introduced by Arikan in 2009, the first code family achieving the capacity of binary-input discrete memoryless channels (BIDMCs) with low-complexity encoding and decoding, it is crucial to evaluate the reliability of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Yadong Jiao , Xiaoyan Cheng , Yuansheng Tang , Ming Xu

In this article we consider flagged extensions of convex combination of quantum channels, and find general sufficient conditions for the degradability of the flagged extension. An immediate application is a bound on the quantum $Q$ and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 Farzad Kianvash , Marco Fanizza , Vittorio Giovannetti

In this correspondence, we propose a tight lower bound to the outage probability of discrete-input Nakagami-m block-fading channels. The approach permits an efficient method for numerical evaluation of the bound, providing an additional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Khoa D. Nguyen , Albert Guillen i Fabregas , Lars K. Rasmussen

Channels with synchronization errors, such as deletion and insertion errors, are crucial in DNA storage, data reconstruction, and other applications. These errors introduce memory to the channel, complicating its capacity analysis. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Busra Tegin , Tolga M Duman

This work gives an explicit construction of a family of error correcting codes for the binary deletion channel and for the Poisson repeat channel. In the binary deletion channel with parameter $p$ (BDC$_p$) every bit is deleted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Roni Con , Amir Shpilka

We study parallel algorithms for the minimisation and equivalence checking of Deterministic Finite Automata (DFAs). Regarding DFA minimisation, we implement four different massively parallel algorithms on Graphics Processing Units~(GPUs).…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Jan Heemstra , Jan Martens , Anton Wijs

For an arbitrary degree distribution pair (DDP), we construct a sequence of low-density parity-check (LDPC) code ensembles with girth growing logarithmically in block-length using Ramanujan graphs. When the DDP has minimum left degree at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Arunkumar Subramanian , Andrew Thangaraj , Matthieu Bloch , Steven W. McLaughlin

This paper investigates decoding of binary linear block codes over the binary erasure channel (BEC). Of the current iterative decoding algorithms on this channel, we review the Recovery Algorithm and the Guess Algorithm. We then present a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 J. Cai , C. Tjhai , M. Tomlinson , M. Ambroze , M. Ahmed

The paper considers the input-constrained binary erasure channel (BEC) with causal, noiseless feedback. The channel input sequence respects the $(d,\infty)$-runlength limited (RLL) constraint, i.e., any pair of successive $1$s must be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-19 V. Arvind Rameshwar , Navin Kashyap

We derive the capacity region of the degraded broadcast channel (DBC) subject to the constraint that the communication is not detected by an adversary, the Warden. Our capacity result is in a computable form and numerical results show that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yossef Steinberg , Michèle Wigger

Today's exponentially increasing data volumes and the high cost of storage make compression essential for the Big Data industry. Although research has concentrated on efficient compression, fast decompression is critical for analytics…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-06-03 Evangelia Sitaridi , Rene Mueller , Tim Kaldewey , Guy Lohman , Kenneth Ross

We study quantum channels that are close to another channel with weakly additive Holevo information and derive upper bounds on their classical capacity. Examples of channels with weakly additive Holevo information are entanglement-breaking…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-25 Felix Leditzky , Eneet Kaur , Nilanjana Datta , Mark M. Wilde

For delay-limited communication over block-fading channels, the difference between the ergodic capacity and the maximum achievable expected rate for coding over a finite number of coherent blocks represents a fundamental measure of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-25 Jae Won Yoo , Tie Liu , Shlomo Shamai , Chao Tian

In the online packet buffering problem (also known as the unweighted FIFO variant of buffer management), we focus on a single network packet switching device with several input ports and one output port. This device forwards unit-size,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-08-15 Marcin Bienkowski