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Spinal codes is a new family of capacity-achieving rateless codes that has been shown to achieve better rate performance compared to Raptor codes, Strider codes, and rateless Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) codes. This correspondence…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Aimin Li , Shaohua Wu , Xiaomeng Chen , Sumei Sun

We investigate weakly constrained codes, in which specific patterns occur with prescribed frequencies rather than being strictly forbidden as in conventional constrained coding. We propose a capacity-achieving construction of a weakly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Prachi Mishra , Sidharth Jaggi , Navin Kashyap , Michael Langberg

Recently, rate-$1/\omega$ zero-terminated and tail-biting convolutional codes (ZTCCs and TBCCs) with cyclic-redundancy-check (CRC)-aided list decoding have been shown to closely approach the random-coding union (RCU) bound for short…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Wenhui Sui , Hengjie Yang , Brendan Towell , Ava Asmani , Richard D. Wesel

Convolutional network-error correcting codes (CNECCs) are known to provide error correcting capability in acyclic instantaneous networks within the network coding paradigm under small field size conditions. In this work, we investigate the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-01-08 K. Prasad , B. Sundar Rajan

Cyclic redundancy check (CRC) codes check if a codeword is correctly received. This paper presents an algorithm to design CRC codes that are optimized for the code-specific error behavior of a specified feedforward convolutional code. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-10 Chung-Yu Lou , Babak Daneshrad , Richard D. Wesel

We consider the concatenation of a convolutional code (CC) with an optimized cyclic redundancy check (CRC) code as a promising paradigm for good short blocklength codes. The resulting CRC-aided convolutional code naturally permits the use…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Hengjie Yang , Ethan Liang , Minghao Pan , Richard Wesel

We propose a new family of spatially coupled product codes, called sub-block rearranged staircase (SR-staircase) codes. Each SR-staircase code block is constructed by encoding rearranged preceding code blocks and new information blocks,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Min Qiu , Jinhong Yuan

This paper studies the joint design of optimal convolutional codes (CCs) and CRC codes when serial list Viterbi algorithm (S-LVA) is employed in order to achieve the target frame error rate (FER). We first analyze the S-LVA performance with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Hengjie Yang , Ethan Liang , Richard D. Wesel

Recently, automorphism ensemble decoding (AED) has drawn research interest as a more computationally efficient alternative to successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding of polar codes. Although AED has demonstrated superior performance for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Marvin Geiselhart , Jannis Clausius , Stephan ten Brink

This letter produces a family of rate-compatible protograph-based LDPC codes approaching the independent and uniformly distributed (i.u.d.) capacity of inter-symbol interference (ISI) channels. This problem is highly nontrivial due to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-06-26 Thuy Van Nguyen , Aria Nosratinia , Dariush Divsalar

We present a method of constructing rate-compatible polar codes that are capacity-achieving with low-complexity sequential decoders. The proposed code construction allows for incremental retransmissions at different rates in order to adapt…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-29 Song-Nam Hong , Dennis Hui , Ivana Marić

Spatially-coupled (SC) LDPC codes have recently emerged as an excellent choice for error correction in modern data storage and communication systems due to their outstanding performance. It has long been known that irregular graph codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Homa Esfahanizadeh , Ruiyi Wu , Lara Dolecek

In this paper, we give an overview of spatially coupled turbo codes (SC-TCs), the spatial coupling of parallel and serially concatenated convolutional codes, recently introduced by the authors. For presentation purposes, we focus on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-03 Alexandre Graell i Amat , Saeedeh Moloudi , Michael Lentmaier

In this paper, we study a new class of high-rate spatially coupled LDPC (SC-LDPC) codes based on the convolutional self-orthogonal codes (CSOCs) first introduced by Massey. The SC-LDPC codes are constructed by treating the irregular graph…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Daniel J. Costello, , Min Zhu , David G. M. Mitchell , Michael Lentmaier

Spectrally constrained sequences (SCSs) play an important role in modern communication and radar systems operating over non-contiguous spectrum. Despite numerous research attempts over the past years, very few works are known on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Zhifan Ye , Zhengchun Zhou , Zilong Liu , Xiaohu Tang , Pingzhi Fan

This letter introduces a novel channel coding design framework for short-length codewords that permits balancing the tradeoff between the bit error rate floor and waterfall region by modifying a single real-valued parameter. The proposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Mikel Hernaez , Pedro M. crespo , Javier Del Ser

We present in this paper a special class of unit memory convolutional codes (UMCCs), called semi-random UMCCs (SRUMCCs), where the information block is first encoded by a short block code and then transmitted in a block Markov (random)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Wenchao Lin , Suihua Cai , Baodian Wei , Xiao Ma

In this work, we introduce convolutional codes for network-error correction in the context of coherent network coding. We give a construction of convolutional codes that correct a given set of error patterns, as long as consecutive errors…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-08-06 K. Prasad , B. Sundar Rajan

In this paper, we propose a class of codes, referred to as random staircase generator matrix codes (SGMCs), which have staircase-like generator matrices. In the infinite-length region, we prove that the random SGMC is capacity-achieving…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Qianfan Wang , Yiwen Wang , Yixin Wang , Jifan Liang , Xiao Ma

In magnetic-recording systems, consecutive sections experience different signal to noise ratios (SNRs). To perform error correction over these systems, one approach is to use an individual block code for each section. However, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-02 Homa Esfahanizadeh , Ahmed Hareedy , Ruiyi Wu , Rick Galbraith , Lara Dolecek