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We consider the rate-distortion function for lossy source compression, as well as the channel capacity for error correction, through the lens of distributional robustness. We assume that the distribution of the source or of the additive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Vikrant Malik , Taylan Kargin , Victoria Kostina , Babak Hassibi

This paper considers the problem of covert communication with mismatched decoding, in which a sender wishes to reliably communicate with a receiver whose decoder is fixed and possibly sub-optimal, and simultaneously to ensure that the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Qiaosheng Zhang , Vincent Y. F. Tan

We consider a bound on the bias reduction of a random number generator by processing based on binary linear codes. We introduce a new bound on the total variation distance of the processed output based on the weight distribution of the code…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-13 Alessio Meneghetti , Massimiliano Sala , Alessandro Tomasi

A general method of coding over expansions is proposed, which allows one to reduce the highly non-trivial problem of coding over continuous channels to a much simpler discrete ones. More specifically, the focus is on the additive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-09 O. Ozan Koyluoglu , Kumar Appaiah , Hongbo Si , Sriram Vishwanath

Fundamental rate-distortion-perception (RDP) trade-offs arise in applications requiring maintained perceptual quality of reconstructed data, such as neural image compression. When compressed data is transmitted over public communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Gustaf Åhlgren , Onur Günlü

An upper bound on the error probability of specific lattices, based on their distance-spectrum, is constructed. The derivation is accomplished using a simple alternative to the Minkowski-Hlawka mean-value theorem of the geometry of numbers.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-03 Yuval Domb , Meir Feder

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

This paper provides novel insights into channel and subspace codes in nonadaptive channel sensing with a single RF chain. Observing that this problem naturally maps to a noncoherent decoding problem, we show that the sensing performance of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-23 Parthasarathi Khirwadkar , Robin Rajamäki , Piya Pal

This paper studies a Shannon-theoretic version of the generalized distribution preserving quantization problem where a stationary and memoryless source is encoded subject to a distortion constraint and the additional requirement that the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-10 Naci Saldi , Tamás Linder , Serdar Yüksel

We analyze the trade-off between the undetected error probability (i.e., the probability that the channel decoder outputs an erroneous message without detecting the error) and the total error probability in the short blocklength regime. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Alexander Sauter , A. Oguz Kislal , Giuseppe Durisi , Gianluigi Liva , Balazs Matuz , Erik G. Ström

We explain how to optimize finite-length LDPC codes for transmission over the binary erasure channel. Our approach relies on an analytic approximation of the erasure probability. This is in turn based on a finite-length scaling result to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Abdelaziz Amraoui , Andrea Montanari , Ruediger Urbanke

Polar codes are a family of capacity-achieving codes that have explicit and low-complexity construction, encoding, and decoding algorithms. Decoding of polar codes is based on the successive-cancellation decoder, which decodes in a bit-…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Boaz Shuval , Ido Tal

Independent parallel q-ary symmetric channels are a suitable transmission model for several applications. The proposed weighted-Hamming metric is tailored to this setting and enables optimal decoding performance. We show that some…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Sebastian Bitzer , Alberto Ravagnani , Violetta Weger

In the literature there exists analytical expressions for the probability of a receiver decoding a transmitted source message that has been encoded using random linear network coding. In this work, we look into the probability that the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Jessica Claridge , Ioannis Chatzigeorgiou

We complete the proof of conjecture, which allows to complete the derivation of the random coding bound for the reliability function in quantum channel in the case of arbitrary signal states

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-01-12 Vladimir Blinovsky

We consider a decoder with an erasure option and a variable size list decoder for channels with non-casual side information at the transmitter. First, universally achievable error exponents are offered for decoding with an erasure option…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-03-13 Erez Sabbag , Neri Merhav

The Poltyrev bound provides a very tight upper bound on the decoding error probability when using binary linear codes for transmission over the binary symmetric channel and the additive white Gaussian noise channel, making use of the code's…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Tal Philosof , Ariel Doubchak , Amit Berman , Uri Erez

This paper studies the problem of reconstructing a word given several of its noisy copies. This setup is motivated by several applications, among them is reconstructing strands in DNA-based storage systems. Under this paradigm, a word is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Omer Sabary , Eitan Yaakobi , Alexander Yucovich

This paper investigates the maximal secret communication rate over a wiretap channel subject to reliability and secrecy constraints at a given blocklength. New achievability and converse bounds are derived, which are uniformly tighter than…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Wei Yang , Rafael F. Schaefer , H. Vincent Poor

Consider a binary linear code of length $N$, minimum distance $d_{\text{min}}$, transmission over the binary erasure channel with parameter $0 < \epsilon < 1$ or the binary symmetric channel with parameter $0 < \epsilon < \frac12$, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Hamed Hassani , Shrinivas Kudekar , Or Ordentlich , Yury Polyanskiy , Rüdiger Urbanke