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The design of codes for feedback-enabled communications has been a long-standing open problem. Recent research on non-linear, deep learning-based coding schemes have demonstrated significant improvements in communication reliability over…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Junghoon Kim , Taejoon Kim , David Love , Christopher Brinton

In analogy with its classical counterpart, a noisy quantum channel is characterized by a loss, a quantity that depends on the channel input and the quantum operation performed by the channel. The loss reflects the transmission quality: if…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-19 Nicolas J. Cerf

In this paper, we study the achievable performance of dirty paper coding for the Gaussian broadcast channel (BC) with finite blocklength and we propose two different achievability bounds for this problem. We present the broadcast adaptation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Ayşe Ünsal , Jean-Marie Gorce

Exponential error bounds achievable by universal coding and decoding are derived for frame-asynchronous discrete memoryless %asynchronous multiple access channels with two senders, via the method of subtypes, a refinement of the method of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Lóránt Farkas , Tamás Kói

Communication channels are said to be underspread if their coherence time is greater than their delay spread. In such cases it can be shown that in the infinite bandwidth limit the information capacity tends to that of a channel with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-24 Steven Herbert , Ian Wassell , Tian-Hong Loh

This paper investigates the maximum coding rate at which data can be transmitted over a noncoherent, multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) Rayleigh block-fading channel using an error-correcting code of a given blocklength with a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Chao Qi , Tobias Koch

Recently, the physical layer security (PLS) of the communication systems has been shown to be enhanced by using legal receiver's feedback. The present secret key based feedback scheme mainly focuses on producing key from the feedback and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Bin Dai , Linman Yu , Zheng Ma

We study the relationship between local and global density for sphere packings, and in particular the convergence of packing densities in large, compact regions to the Euclidean limit. We axiomatize key properties of sphere packing bounds…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-26 Henry Cohn , Andrew Salmon

On a class of memoryless quantum channels which includes the depolarizing channel, the highest fidelity of quantum error-correcting codes of length n and rate R is proven to be lower bounded by 1-exp[-nE(R)+o(n)] for some function E(R). The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Mitsuru Hamada

We study encodings that give the best known thresholds for the non-zero capacity of quantum channels, i.e., the upper bound for correctable noise, using an entropic approach to calculation of the threshold values. Our results show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-02-22 Jesse Fern , K. Birgitta Whaley

Recent results by Chen et al. and Polyanskiy et al. explore using feedback to approach capacity with short blocklengths. This paper explores Chernoff bounding techniques to extend the rate-compatible sphere-packing (RCSP) analysis proposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-22 Tsung-Yi Chen , Dariush Divsalar , Richard D. Wesel

We introduce a new quantum decoder based on a variant of the pretty good measurement, but defined via an alternative matrix quotient. We use this decoder to show new lower bounds on the error exponent both in the one-shot and asymptotic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Salman Beigi , Marco Tomamichel

Consider communication over the binary erasure channel BEC using random low-density parity-check codes with finite-blocklength n from `standard' ensembles. We show that large error events is conveniently described within a scaling theory,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Abdelaziz Amraoui , Andrea Montanari , Tom Richardson , Rudiger Urbanke

An inner bound to the capacity region of a class of deterministic interference channels with three user pairs is presented. The key idea is to simultaneously decode the combined interference signal and the intended message at each receiver.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Bernd Bandemer , Abbas El Gamal

In this paper, lower bounds on error probability in coding for discrete classical and classical-quantum channels are studied. The contribution of the paper goes in two main directions: i) extending classical bounds of Shannon, Gallager and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-06 Marco Dalai

We develop upper bounds on code size for an independent and identically distributed deletion and insertion channels for a given code length and target frame error probability. The bounds are obtained as a variation of a general converse…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Ruslan Morozov , Tolga Mete Duman

We consider the discrete memoryless degraded broadcast channels with feedback. We prove that the error probability of decoding tends to one exponentially for rates outside the capacity region and derive an explicit lower bound of this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-24 Yasutada Oohama

This paper analyzes the maximal achievable rate for a given blocklength and error probability over a multiple-antenna ambient backscatter channel with perfect channel state information at the receiver. The result consists of a finite…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Likun Sui , Zihuai Lin , Pei Xiao , H. Vincent Poor , Branka Vucetic

We derive a new outer bound on the capacity region of broadcast traffic in multiple input broadcast packet erasure channels with feedback, and extend this outer bound to packet erasure relay networks with feedback. We show the tightness of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Quan Geng , Hieu T. Do , Rui Wu , Mindi Yuan , Yun Li , Wei Ding

Error probabilities of random codes for memoryless channels are considered in this paper. In the area of communication systems, admissible error probability is very small and it is sometimes more important to discuss the relative gap…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-11 Junya Honda