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# IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

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• ### Robust uncertainty principles: exact signal reconstruction from highly incomplete frequency information

Publication Year: 2006, Page(s):489 - 509
Cited by:  Papers (6454)  |  Patents (141)
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This paper considers the model problem of reconstructing an object from incomplete frequency samples. Consider a discrete-time signal f∈CN and a randomly chosen set of frequencies Ω. Is it possible to reconstruct f from the partial knowledge of its Fourier coefficients on the set Ω? A typical result of this paper is as follows. Suppose that f is a superposition of |T| s... View full abstract»

• ### Compressed sensing

Publication Year: 2006, Page(s):1289 - 1306
Cited by:  Papers (10179)  |  Patents (164)
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Suppose x is an unknown vector in Ropfm (a digital image or signal); we plan to measure n general linear functionals of x and then reconstruct. If x is known to be compressible by transform coding with a known transform, and we reconstruct via the nonlinear procedure defined here, the number of measurements n can be dramatically smaller than the size m. Thus, certain natural classes of ... View full abstract»

• ### Channel Polarization: A Method for Constructing Capacity-Achieving Codes for Symmetric Binary-Input Memoryless Channels

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):3051 - 3073
Cited by:  Papers (824)  |  Patents (26)
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A method is proposed, called channel polarization, to construct code sequences that achieve the symmetric capacity I(W) of any given binary-input discrete memoryless channel (B-DMC) W. The symmetric capacity is the highest rate achievable subject to using the input letters of the channel with equal probability. Channel polarization refers to the fact that it is possible to synthesize, out of N ind... View full abstract»

• ### Factor graphs and the sum-product algorithm

Publication Year: 2001, Page(s):498 - 519
Cited by:  Papers (2677)  |  Patents (192)
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Algorithms that must deal with complicated global functions of many variables often exploit the manner in which the given functions factor as a product of “local” functions, each of which depends on a subset of the variables. Such a factorization can be visualized with a bipartite graph that we call a factor graph, In this tutorial paper, we present a generic message-passing algorithm,... View full abstract»

• ### Cooperative diversity in wireless networks: Efficient protocols and outage behavior

Publication Year: 2004, Page(s):3062 - 3080
Cited by:  Papers (8376)  |  Patents (63)
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We develop and analyze low-complexity cooperative diversity protocols that combat fading induced by multipath propagation in wireless networks. The underlying techniques exploit space diversity available through cooperating terminals' relaying signals for one another. We outline several strategies employed by the cooperating radios, including fixed relaying schemes such as amplify-and-forward and ... View full abstract»

• ### A Mathematical Theory of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Feature Extraction

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1845 - 1866
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Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have led to breakthrough results in numerous practical machine learning tasks, such as classification of images in the ImageNet data set, control-policy-learning to play Atari games or the board game Go, and image captioning. Many of these applications first perform feature extraction and then feed the results thereof into a classifier. The mathematical a... View full abstract»

• ### Nearest neighbor pattern classification

Publication Year: 1967, Page(s):21 - 27
Cited by:  Papers (3485)  |  Patents (98)
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The nearest neighbor decision rule assigns to an unclassified sample point the classification of the nearest of a set of previously classified points. This rule is independent of the underlying joint distribution on the sample points and their classifications, and hence the probability of errorRof such a rule must be at least as great as the Bayes probability of errorR^{ast}-... View full abstract»

• ### Channel Coding Rate in the Finite Blocklength Regime

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):2307 - 2359
Cited by:  Papers (570)  |  Patents (1)
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This paper investigates the maximal channel coding rate achievable at a given blocklength and error probability. For general classes of channels new achievability and converse bounds are given, which are tighter than existing bounds for wide ranges of parameters of interest, and lead to tight approximations of the maximal achievable rate for blocklengths n as short as 100. It is also shown ... View full abstract»

• ### Decoding by linear programming

Publication Year: 2005, Page(s):4203 - 4215
Cited by:  Papers (2767)  |  Patents (43)
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This paper considers a natural error correcting problem with real valued input/output. We wish to recover an input vector f∈Rn from corrupted measurements y=Af+e. Here, A is an m by n (coding) matrix and e is an arbitrary and unknown vector of errors. Is it possible to recover f exactly from the data y? We prove that under suitable conditions on the coding matrix A, the input f is ... View full abstract»

• ### Speeding Up Distributed Machine Learning Using Codes

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1514 - 1529
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Codes are widely used in many engineering applications to offer robustness against noise. In large-scale systems, there are several types of noise that can affect the performance of distributed machine learning algorithms-straggler nodes, system failures, or communication bottlenecks-but there has been little interaction cutting across codes, machine learning, and distributed systems. In this pape... View full abstract»

• ### Sparse Solution of Underdetermined Systems of Linear Equations by Stagewise Orthogonal Matching Pursuit

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1094 - 1121
Cited by:  Papers (452)  |  Patents (2)
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Finding the sparsest solution to underdetermined systems of linear equations y = Φx is NP-hard in general. We show here that for systems with “typical”/“random” Φ, a good approximation to the sparsest solution is obtained by applying a fixed number of standard operations from linear algebra. Our proposal, Stagewise Orthogonal Matching Pur... View full abstract»

• ### Joint Spatial Division and Multiplexing—The Large-Scale Array Regime

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):6441 - 6463
Cited by:  Papers (318)  |  Patents (4)
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We propose joint spatial division and multiplexing (JSDM), an approach to multiuser MIMO downlink that exploits the structure of the correlation of the channel vectors in order to allow for a large number of antennas at the base station while requiring reduced-dimensional channel state information at the transmitter (CSIT). JSDM achieves significant savings both in the downlink training and in the... View full abstract»

• ### List Decoding of Polar Codes

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):2213 - 2226
Cited by:  Papers (99)
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We describe a successive-cancellation list decoder for polar codes, which is a generalization of the classic successive-cancellation decoder of Arıkan. In the proposed list decoder, L decoding paths are considered concurrently at each decoding stage, where L is an integer parameter. At the end of the decoding process, the most likely among the L paths is selected as the single codeword at t... View full abstract»

• ### Performance Analysis of ZF and MMSE Equalizers for MIMO Systems: An In-Depth Study of the High SNR Regime

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):2008 - 2026
Cited by:  Papers (145)
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This paper presents an in-depth analysis of the zero forcing (ZF) and minimum mean squared error (MMSE) equalizers applied to wireless multiinput multioutput (MIMO) systems with no fewer receive than transmit antennas. In spite of much prior work on this subject, we reveal several new and surprising analytical results in terms of output signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), uncoded error and outage probabi... View full abstract»

• ### Signal Recovery From Random Measurements Via Orthogonal Matching Pursuit

Publication Year: 2007, Page(s):4655 - 4666
Cited by:  Papers (3311)  |  Patents (39)
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This paper demonstrates theoretically and empirically that a greedy algorithm called orthogonal matching pursuit (OMP) can reliably recover a signal with m nonzero entries in dimension d given O(m ln d) random linear measurements of that signal. This is a massive improvement over previous results, which require O(m2) measurements. The new results for OMP are comparable with recen... View full abstract»

• ### Least squares quantization in PCM

Publication Year: 1982, Page(s):129 - 137
Cited by:  Papers (3148)  |  Patents (104)
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It has long been realized that in pulse-code modulation (PCM), with a given ensemble of signals to handle, the quantum values should be spaced more closely in the voltage regions where the signal amplitude is more likely to fall. It has been shown by Panter and Dite that, in the limit as the number of quanta becomes infinite, the asymptotic fractional density of quanta per unit voltage should vary... View full abstract»

• ### Orthogonal Matching Pursuit for Sparse Signal Recovery With Noise

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):4680 - 4688
Cited by:  Papers (242)  |  Patents (5)
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We consider the orthogonal matching pursuit (OMP) algorithm for the recovery of a high-dimensional sparse signal based on a small number of noisy linear measurements. OMP is an iterative greedy algorithm that selects at each step the column, which is most correlated with the current residuals. In this paper, we present a fully data driven OMP algorithm with explicit stopping rules. It is shown tha... View full abstract»

• ### Diversity and multiplexing: a fundamental tradeoff in multiple-antenna channels

Publication Year: 2003, Page(s):1073 - 1096
Cited by:  Papers (2415)  |  Patents (51)
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Multiple antennas can be used for increasing the amount of diversity or the number of degrees of freedom in wireless communication systems. We propose the point of view that both types of gains can be simultaneously obtained for a given multiple-antenna channel, but there is a fundamental tradeoff between how much of each any coding scheme can get. For the richly scattered Rayleigh-fading channel,... View full abstract»

• ### Design of capacity-approaching irregular low-density parity-check codes

Publication Year: 2001, Page(s):619 - 637
Cited by:  Papers (1917)  |  Patents (106)
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We design low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes that perform at rates extremely close to the Shannon capacity. The codes are built from highly irregular bipartite graphs with carefully chosen degree patterns on both sides. Our theoretical analysis of the codes is based on the work of Richardson and Urbanke (see ibid., vol.47, no.2, p.599-618, 2000). Assuming that the underlying communication chann... View full abstract»

• ### FemtoCaching: Wireless Content Delivery Through Distributed Caching Helpers

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):8402 - 8413
Cited by:  Papers (215)
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Video on-demand streaming from Internet-based servers is becoming one of the most important services offered by wireless networks today. In order to improve the area spectral efficiency of video transmission in cellular systems, small cells heterogeneous architectures (e.g., femtocells, WiFi off-loading) are being proposed, such that video traffic to nomadic users can be handled by short-range lin... View full abstract»

• ### Network Coding for Distributed Storage Systems

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):4539 - 4551
Cited by:  Papers (607)  |  Patents (24)
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Distributed storage systems provide reliable access to data through redundancy spread over individually unreliable nodes. Application scenarios include data centers, peer-to-peer storage systems, and storage in wireless networks. Storing data using an erasure code, in fragments spread across nodes, requires less redundancy than simple replication for the same level of reliability. However, since f... View full abstract»

• ### The wavelet transform, time-frequency localization and signal analysis

Publication Year: 1990, Page(s):961 - 1005
Cited by:  Papers (2821)  |  Patents (30)
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Two different procedures for effecting a frequency analysis of a time-dependent signal locally in time are studied. The first procedure is the short-time or windowed Fourier transform; the second is the wavelet transform, in which high-frequency components are studied with sharper time resolution than low-frequency components. The similarities and the differences between these two methods are disc... View full abstract»

• ### Wireless Information-Theoretic Security

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):2515 - 2534
Cited by:  Papers (770)  |  Patents (1)
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This paper considers the transmission of confidential data over wireless channels. Based on an information-theoretic formulation of the problem, in which two legitimates partners communicate over a quasi-static fading channel and an eavesdropper observes their transmissions through a second independent quasi-static fading channel, the important role of fading is characterized in terms of average s... View full abstract»

• ### The capacity of low-density parity-check codes under message-passing decoding

Publication Year: 2001, Page(s):599 - 618
Cited by:  Papers (1667)  |  Patents (154)
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We present a general method for determining the capacity of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes under message-passing decoding when used over any binary-input memoryless channel with discrete or continuous output alphabets. Transmitting at rates below this capacity, a randomly chosen element of the given ensemble will achieve an arbitrarily small target probability of error with a probability th... View full abstract»

• ### MIMO Broadcast Channels With Finite-Rate Feedback

Publication Year: 2006, Page(s):5045 - 5060
Cited by:  Papers (1001)  |  Patents (28)
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Multiple transmit antennas in a downlink channel can provide tremendous capacity (i.e., multiplexing) gains, even when receivers have only single antennas. However, receiver and transmitter channel state information is generally required. In this correspondence, a system where each receiver has perfect channel knowledge, but the transmitter only receives quantized information regarding the channel... View full abstract»

• ### De-noising by soft-thresholding

Publication Year: 1995, Page(s):613 - 627
Cited by:  Papers (4172)  |  Patents (73)
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Donoho and Johnstone (1994) proposed a method for reconstructing an unknown function f on [0,1] from noisy data di=f(ti )+σzi, i=0, …, n-1,ti=i/n, where the zi are independent and identically distributed standard Gaussian random variables. The reconstruction fˆ*n is defined in the wavelet domain by translating all... View full abstract»

• ### New directions in cryptography

Publication Year: 1976, Page(s):644 - 654
Cited by:  Papers (4030)  |  Patents (345)
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Two kinds of contemporary developments in cryptography are examined. Widening applications of teleprocessing have given rise to a need for new types of cryptographic systems, which minimize the need for secure key distribution channels and supply the equivalent of a written signature. This paper suggests ways to solve these currently open problems. It also discusses how the theories of communicati... View full abstract»

• ### Interference Alignment and Degrees of Freedom of the $K$-User Interference Channel

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):3425 - 3441
Cited by:  Papers (1925)  |  Patents (39)
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For the fully connected K user wireless interference channel where the channel coefficients are time-varying and are drawn from a continuous distribution, the sum capacity is characterized as C(SNR)=K/2log(SNR)+o(log(SNR)) . Thus, the K user time-varying interference channel almost surely has K/2 degrees of freedom. Achievability is based on the idea of interference alignment. Examples are also pr... View full abstract»

• ### How to Construct Polar Codes

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):6562 - 6582
Cited by:  Papers (138)  |  Patents (4)
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A method for efficiently constructing polar codes is presented and analyzed. Although polar codes are explicitly defined, straightforward construction is intractable since the resulting polar bit-channels have an output alphabet that grows exponentially with the code length. Thus, the core problem that needs to be solved is that of faithfully approximating a bit-channel with an intractably large a... View full abstract»

• ### Raptor codes

Publication Year: 2006, Page(s):2551 - 2567
Cited by:  Papers (1400)  |  Patents (60)
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LT-codes are a new class of codes introduced by Luby for the purpose of scalable and fault-tolerant distribution of data over computer networks. In this paper, we introduce Raptor codes, an extension of LT-codes with linear time encoding and decoding. We will exhibit a class of universal Raptor codes: for a given integer k and any real epsiv>0, Raptor codes in this class produce a potentially i... View full abstract»

• ### Greed is good: algorithmic results for sparse approximation

Publication Year: 2004, Page(s):2231 - 2242
Cited by:  Papers (1437)  |  Patents (12)
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This article presents new results on using a greedy algorithm, orthogonal matching pursuit (OMP), to solve the sparse approximation problem over redundant dictionaries. It provides a sufficient condition under which both OMP and Donoho's basis pursuit (BP) paradigm can recover the optimal representation of an exactly sparse signal. It leverages this theory to show that both OMP and BP succeed for ... View full abstract»

• ### How much training is needed in multiple-antenna wireless links?

Publication Year: 2003, Page(s):951 - 963
Cited by:  Papers (1185)  |  Patents (33)
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Multiple-antenna wireless communication links promise very high data rates with low error probabilities, especially when the wireless channel response is known at the receiver. In practice, knowledge of the channel is often obtained by sending known training symbols to the receiver. We show how training affects the capacity of a fading channel-too little training and the channel is improperly lear... View full abstract»

• ### Model-Based Compressive Sensing

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1982 - 2001
Cited by:  Papers (655)  |  Patents (4)
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Compressive sensing (CS) is an alternative to Shannon/Nyquist sampling for the acquisition of sparse or compressible signals that can be well approximated by just K Â¿ N elements from an N -dimensional basis. Instead of taking periodic samples, CS measures inner products with M < N random vectors and then recovers the signal via a sparsity-seeking optimization or greedy algorithm. Standard CS d... View full abstract»

• ### Massive MIMO Systems With Non-Ideal Hardware: Energy Efficiency, Estimation, and Capacity Limits

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):7112 - 7139
Cited by:  Papers (195)
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The use of large-scale antenna arrays can bring substantial improvements in energy and/or spectral efficiency to wireless systems due to the greatly improved spatial resolution and array gain. Recent works in the field of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) show that the user channels decorrelate when the number of antennas at the base stations (BSs) increases, thus strong signal gains a... View full abstract»

• ### Fundamental Limits of Caching

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):2856 - 2867
Cited by:  Papers (281)
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Caching is a technique to reduce peak traffic rates by prefetching popular content into memories at the end users. Conventionally, these memories are used to deliver requested content in part from a locally cached copy rather than through the network. The gain offered by this approach, which we term local caching gain, depends on the local cache size (i.e., the memory available at each individual ... View full abstract»

• ### Unlabeled Sensing With Random Linear Measurements

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):3237 - 3253
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We study the problem of solving a linear sensing system when the observations are unlabeled. Specifically we seek a solution to a linear system of equations y = Ax when the order of the observations in the vector y is unknown. Focusing on the setting in which A is a random matrix with i.i.d. entries, we show that if the sensing matrix A admits an oversampling ratio of 2 or higher, then, with proba... View full abstract»

• ### Update or Wait: How to Keep Your Data Fresh

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):7492 - 7508
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In this paper, we study how to optimally manage the freshness of information updates sent from a source node to a destination via a channel. A proper metric for data freshness at the destination is the age-of-information, or simply age, which is defined as how old the freshest received update is, since the moment that this update was generated at the source node (e.g., a sensor). A reasonable upda... View full abstract»

• ### Near-Optimal Signal Recovery From Random Projections: Universal Encoding Strategies?

Publication Year: 2006, Page(s):5406 - 5425
Cited by:  Papers (2839)  |  Patents (46)
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Suppose we are given a vector f in a class FsubeRopfN , e.g., a class of digital signals or digital images. How many linear measurements do we need to make about f to be able to recover f to within precision epsi in the Euclidean (lscr2) metric? This paper shows that if the objects of interest are sparse in a fixed basis or compressible, then it is possible to reconstruct f t... View full abstract»

• ### Error bounds for convolutional codes and an asymptotically optimum decoding algorithm

Publication Year: 1967, Page(s):260 - 269
Cited by:  Papers (2225)  |  Patents (124)
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The probability of error in decoding an optimal convolutional code transmitted over a memoryless channel is bounded from above and below as a function of the constraint length of the code. For all but pathological channels the bounds are asymptotically (exponentially) tight for rates aboveR_{0}, the computational cutoff rate of sequential decoding. As a function of constraint length the... View full abstract»

• ### Duality, achievable rates, and sum-rate capacity of Gaussian MIMO broadcast channels

Publication Year: 2003, Page(s):2658 - 2668
Cited by:  Papers (1024)  |  Patents (31)
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We consider a multiuser multiple-input multiple- output (MIMO) Gaussian broadcast channel (BC), where the transmitter and receivers have multiple antennas. Since the MIMO BC is in general a nondegraded BC, its capacity region remains an unsolved problem. We establish a duality between what is termed the "dirty paper" achievable region (the Caire-Shamai (see Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Information Theory... View full abstract»

• ### Linear network coding

Publication Year: 2003, Page(s):371 - 381
Cited by:  Papers (1933)  |  Patents (69)
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Consider a communication network in which certain source nodes multicast information to other nodes on the network in the multihop fashion where every node can pass on any of its received data to others. We are interested in how fast each node can receive the complete information, or equivalently, what the information rate arriving at each node is. Allowing a node to encode its received data befor... View full abstract»

• ### The capacity of wireless networks

Publication Year: 2000, Page(s):388 - 404
Cited by:  Papers (4816)  |  Patents (71)
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When n identical randomly located nodes, each capable of transmitting at W bits per second and using a fixed range, form a wireless network, the throughput λ(n) obtainable by each node for a randomly chosen destination is Θ(W/√(nlogn)) bits per second under a noninterference protocol. If the nodes are optimally placed in a disk of unit area, traffic patterns are optimally assign... View full abstract»

• ### Asymptotic Comparison of ML and MAP Detectors for Multidimensional Constellations

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1231 - 1240
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A classical problem in digital communications is to evaluate the symbol error probability (SEP) and bit error probability (BEP) of a multidimensional constellation over an additive white Gaussian noise channel. In this paper, we revisit this problem for nonequally likely symbols and study the behavior of the optimal maximum a posteriori (MAP) detector at asymptotically high signal-to-noise ratios.... View full abstract»

• ### The Optimal Hard Threshold for Singular Values is $4/\sqrt {3}$

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):5040 - 5053
Cited by:  Papers (33)
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We consider recovery of low-rank matrices from noisy data by hard thresholding of singular values, in which empirical singular values below a threshold λ are set to 0. We study the asymptotic mean squared error (AMSE) in a framework, where the matrix size is large compared with the rank of the matrix to be recovered, and the signal-to-noise ratio of the low-rank piece stays constant. The AM... View full abstract»

• ### A Career in Engineering

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):2805 - 2836
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During the summers (1951-1954) that I was a graduate student in “pure mathematics,” I worked in the Systems Engineering Section of the Glenn L. Martin Company. I began to notice the applicability of supposedly pure topics like prime number theory and finite field theory to problems in communications. My first major applied effort involved developing the theory of “Shift Regist... View full abstract»

• ### How to Achieve the Capacity of Asymmetric Channels

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):3371 - 3393
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We survey coding techniques that enable reliable transmission at rates that approach the capacity of an arbitrary discrete memoryless channel. In particular, we take the point of view of modern coding theory and discuss how recent advances in coding for symmetric channels help provide more efficient solutions for the asymmetric case. We consider, in more detail, three basic coding paradigms. The f... View full abstract»

• ### Compressed Sensing With Prior Information: Strategies, Geometry, and Bounds

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):4472 - 4496
Cited by:  Papers (2)
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We address the problem of compressed sensing (CS) with prior information: reconstruct a target CS signal with the aid of a similar signal that is known beforehand, our prior information. We integrate the additional knowledge of the similar signal into CS via l1-l1 and l1-l2 minimization. We then establish bounds on the number of measurements required by ... View full abstract»

• ### Network information flow

Publication Year: 2000, Page(s):1204 - 1216
Cited by:  Papers (4703)  |  Patents (89)
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We introduce a new class of problems called network information flow which is inspired by computer network applications. Consider a point-to-point communication network on which a number of information sources are to be multicast to certain sets of destinations. We assume that the information sources are mutually independent. The problem is to characterize the admissible coding rate region. This m... View full abstract»

• ### Space-time codes for high data rate wireless communication: performance criterion and code construction

Publication Year: 1998, Page(s):744 - 765
Cited by:  Papers (4914)  |  Patents (217)
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We consider the design of channel codes for improving the data rate and/or the reliability of communications over fading channels using multiple transmit antennas. Data is encoded by a channel code and the encoded data is split into n streams that are simultaneously transmitted using n transmit antennas. The received signal at each receive antenna is a linear superposition of the n transmitted sig... View full abstract»

• ### On the achievable throughput of a multiantenna Gaussian broadcast channel

Publication Year: 2003, Page(s):1691 - 1706
Cited by:  Papers (1516)  |  Patents (64)
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A Gaussian broadcast channel (GBC) with r single-antenna receivers and t antennas at the transmitter is considered. Both transmitter and receivers have perfect knowledge of the channel. Despite its apparent simplicity, this model is, in general, a nondegraded broadcast channel (BC), for which the capacity region is not fully known. For the two-user case, we find a special case of Marton's (1979) r... View full abstract»

## Aims & Scope

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory publishes papers concerned with the transmission, processing, and utilization of information.

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## Meet Our Editors

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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering