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Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Aakash Bansal , Sakib Haque , Collin McMillan

We consider the problem of transmission of several distributed sources over a multiple access channel (MAC) with side information at the sources and the decoder. Source-channel separation does not hold for this channel. Sufficient…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-03-11 R. Rajesh , Vinod Sharma

Motivated by applications to delivery of dynamically updated, but correlated data in settings such as content distribution networks, and distributed file sharing systems, we study a single source multiple destination network coded multicast…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-02 Milad Mahdian , N. Prakash , Muriel Médard , Edmund Yeh

We introduce a new variant of variable-length source coding for sending a source over two parallel channels, one of which is costly and the other free. We give a complete solution to this problem. Next, we relate the problem to the number…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Niloufar Ahmadypour , Amin Gohari

The problem of joint source-channel coding in transmitting independent sources over interference channels with correlated receiver side information is studied. When each receiver has side information correlated with its own desired source,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-10-15 Nan Liu , Deniz Gunduz , Andrea J. Goldsmith , H. Vincent Poor

Most of the existing P2P content distribution schemes implement a random or rarest piece first dissemination procedure to avoid duplicate transmission of the same pieces of data and rare pieces of data occurring in the network. This problem…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-09-10 M Anandaraj , K Selvaraj , P Ganeshkumar , K P Vijayakumar

Semantic communication is designed to tackle issues like bandwidth constraints and high latency in communication systems. However, in complex network topologies with multiple users, the enormous combinations of client data and channel state…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-19 Xingrun Yan , Shiyuan Zuo , Yifeng Lyu , Rongfei Fan , Han Hu

We consider the multiple unicast problem with three source-terminal pairs over directed acyclic networks with unit-capacity edges. The three $s_i-t_i$ pairs wish to communicate at unit-rate via network coding. The connectivity between the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-20 Shurui Huang , Aditya Ramamoorthy

We consider a network consisting of a file server connected through a shared link to a number of users, each equipped with a cache. Knowing the popularity distribution of the files, the goal is to optimally populate the caches such as to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-23 Urs Niesen , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali

This paper considers a framework where data from correlated sources are transmitted with help of network coding in ad-hoc network topologies. The correlated data are encoded independently at sensors and network coding is employed in the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Hyunggon Park , Nikolaos Thomos , Pascal Frossard

In any communication network, the maximum number of link-disjoint paths between any pair of communicating nodes, S and T, is limited by the S-T minimum link-cut. Multipath routing protocols have been proposed in the literature to make use…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-08-06 Osameh M. Al-Kofahi , Ahmed E. Kamal

We consider a system in which two users communicate with a destination with the help of a half-duplex relay. Based on the compute-and-forward scheme, we develop and evaluate the performance of coding strategies that are of network coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-06-11 Mohieddine El Soussi , Abdellatif Zaidi , Luc Vandendorpe

From the perspective of joint source-channel coding (JSCC), there has been significant research on utilizing semantic communication, which inherently possesses analog characteristics, within digital device environments. However, a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-04 Yoon Huh , Hyowoon Seo , Wan Choi

In recent years, network coding has emerged as an innovative method that helps wireless network approaches its maximum capacity, by combining multiple unicasts in one broadcast. However, the majority of research conducted in this area is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Somayeh Kafaie , Yuanzhu Chen , Mohamed Hossam Ahmed , Octavia A. Dobre

Cooperation between the nodes of wireless multihop networks can increase communication reliability, reduce energy consumption, and decrease latency. The possible improvements are even greater when nodes perform mutual information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-08-27 Stark C. Draper , Lingjia Liu , Andreas F. Molisch , Jonathan S. Yedidia

In this article we focus on the problem of channel decoding in presence of a-priori information. In particular, assuming that the a-priori information reliability is not perfectly estimated at the receiver, we derive a novel analytical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-11-14 Andrea Abrardo

Performance of reliable communication over a coherent slow fading channel at high SNR is succinctly captured as a fundamental tradeoff between diversity and multiplexing gains. We study the problem of designing codes that optimally tradeoff…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Saurabha Tavildar , Pramod Viswanath

Diversity coding is a network restoration technique which offers near-hitless restoration, while other state-of-the art techniques are significantly slower. Furthermore, the extra spare capacity requirement of diversity coding is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-11 Serhat Nazim Avci , Ender Ayanoglu

We examine the issue of separation and code design for networks that operate over finite fields. We demonstrate that source-channel (or source-network) separation holds for several canonical network examples like the noisy multiple access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Siddharth Ray , Michelle Effros , Muriel Medard , Ralf Koetter , Tracey Ho , David Karger , Jinane Abounadi

The goal of semantic communication is to surpass optimal Shannon's criterion regarding a notable problem for future communication which lies in the integration of collaborative efforts between the intelligence of the transmission source and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Xinchao Zhong , Sean Longyu Ma , Hong-fu Chou , Arsham Mostaani , Thang X. Vu , Symeon Chatzinotas