3 papers
cs.IT2009★ 3 cited
A Nearly Optimal Construction of Flash Codes
Hessam Mahdavifar, Paul H. Siegel, Alexander Vardy +2
Flash memory is a non-volatile computer memory comprised of blocks of cells, wherein each cell can take on q different values or levels. While increasing the cell level is easy, re…
cs.IT2006★ 18 cited
On an Improvement over Rényi's Equivocation Bound
Nandakishore Santhi, Alexander Vardy
We consider the problem of estimating the probability of error in multi-hypothesis testing when MAP criterion is used. This probability, which is also known as the Bayes risk is an…
cs.IT2006
Analog Codes on Graphs
Nandakishore Santhi, Alexander Vardy
We consider the problem of transmission of a sequence of real data produced by a Nyquist sampled band-limited analog source over a band-limited analog channel, which introduces an…