New research from the University of Waterloo is making inroads on one of the biggest problems in theoretical computer science ...

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Abstract: Distributed Source Coding (DSC), a scheme that encodes multiple correlated sources separately while decoding their bitstreams jointly, is an important branch of network information theory.

Abstract: We study network maximum distance separable (MDS) codes, which are a class of network error-correcting codes whose distance attains the Singleton-type bound. The minimum field size of a ...