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In their seminal work, Bennett et al. [IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory (2002)] showed that, with sufficient shared randomness, one noisy channel can simulate another at a rate equal to the ratio of their capacities. We establish that when coding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-19 Aadil Oufkir , Yongsheng Yao , Mario Berta

This work investigates the fundamental limits of communication over a noisy discrete memoryless channel that wears out, in the sense of signal-dependent catastrophic failure. In particular, we consider a channel that starts as a memoryless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Ting-Yi Wu , Lav R. Varshney , Vincent Y. F. Tan

This paper investigates task-oriented communication for multi-device cooperative edge inference, where a group of distributed low-end edge devices transmit the extracted features of local samples to a powerful edge server for inference.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-13 Jiawei Shao , Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang

This paper studies the organization of communication between biased senders and a receiver. Senders can misreport their private information at a cost. Efficiency is achieved by clearing information asymmetries without incurring costs.…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-02-04 Federico Vaccari

Recent advances in associative memory design through strutured pattern sets and graph-based inference algorithms have allowed the reliable learning and retrieval of an exponential number of patterns. Both these and classical associative…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-06-04 Amin Karbasi , Amir Hesam Salavati , Amin Shokrollahi , Lav Varshney

Broadcast and consensus are most fundamental tasks in distributed computing. These tasks are particularly challenging in dynamic networks where communication across the network links may be unreliable, e.g., due to mobility or failures.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Antoine El-Hayek , Monika Henzinger , Stefan Schmid

The paper characterizes the fundamental limits of integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems with a bi-static radar, where the radar receiver is located close to the transmitter and estimates or detects the state based on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Mehrasa Ahmadipour , Michele Wigger , Shlomo Shamai

We study finite-state communication games in which the sender's preference is perturbed by random private idiosyncrasies. Persuasion is generically impossible within the class of statistically independent sender/receiver preferences --…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-03-22 Alistair Barton

Designing distributed, fast and reliable wireless consensus protocols is instrumental in enabling mission-critical decentralized systems, such as robotic networks in the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), drone swarms in rescue missions,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Hyowoon Seo , Jihong Park , Mehdi Bennis , Wan Choi

An information measure based on fractional partitions of a set is used to derive a general dependence balance inequality for communication. This inequality is used to obtain new upper bounds on reliable and secret rates for multiterminal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Amin Gohari , Gerhard Kramer

A noisy CDMA downlink channel operating under a strict complexity constraint on the receiver is introduced. According to this constraint, detected bits, obtained by performing hard decisions directly on the channel's matched filter output,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Ori Shental , Ido Kanter , Anthony J. Weiss

Semantic communications conveys task-relevant meaning rather than focusing solely on message reconstruction, improving bandwidth efficiency and robustness for next-generation wireless systems. However, learned semantic representations can…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Yalin E. Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek , Aylin Yener , Sennur Ulukus

This paper studies implicit communication in linear quadratic Gaussian control systems. We show that the control system itself can serve as an implicit communication channel, enabling the controller to transmit messages through its inputs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Gongpu Chen , Deniz Gunduz

In this paper, we present a theoretical analysis of different integrating front-ends employed in broad-band communications through \textit{lossy} channels. Time-domain receivers for broad-band communication typically deal with large…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-23 Antroy Roy Chowdhury , Shovan Maity , Shreyas Sen

We revisit the problem of low-memory robust simulation of interactive protocols over noisy channels. Haeupler [FOCS 2014] considered robust simulation of two-party interactive protocols over oblivious, as well as adaptive, noisy channels.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-29 T-H. Hubert Chan , Zhibin Liang , Antigoni Polychroniadou , Elaine Shi

We propose the problem of wiretapped commitment, where two parties, say committer Alice and receiver Bob, engage in a commitment protocol using a noisy channel as a resource, in the presence of an eavesdropper, say Eve. Noisy versions of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Anuj Kumar Yadav , Manideep Mamindlapally , Amitalok J. Budkuley

This third part of the paper is related to the study of information flow in networks with strong interference. First, the two-receiver networks are considered. A unified outer bound for the capacity region of these networks is established.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-18 Reza K. Farsani

This paper studies the problem of information theoretic secure communication when a source has private messages to transmit to $m$ destinations, in the presence of a passive adversary who eavesdrops an unknown set of $k$ edges. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Gaurav Kumar Agarwal , Martina Cardone , Christina Fragouli

Explicit characterization of the capacity region of communication networks is a long standing problem. While it is known that network coding can outperform routing and replication, the set of feasible rates is not known in general.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Satyajit Thakor , Alex Grant , Terence Chan

The cognitive interference channel with confidential messages is studied. Similarly to the classical two-user interference channel, the cognitive interference channel consists of two transmitters whose signals interfere at the two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-10-11 Yingbin Liang , Anelia Somekh-Baruch , H. Vincent Poor , Shlomo Shamai , Sergio Verdu