The renewed interest for physical-layer security techniques has put forward a new role for
error-control codes. In addition to ensuring reliability, carefully designed codes have been …

Practical implementations of secret-key generation are often based on sequential strategies,
which handle reliability and secrecy in two successive steps, called reconciliation and …

The action of a noise operator on a code transforms it into a distribution on the respective
space. Some common examples from information theory include Bernoulli noise acting on a …

Improved upper bounds on the blocklength required to communicate over binary-input
channels using polar codes, below some given error probability, are derived. For that …

This paper investigates the problem of coordinating several agents through their actions,
focusing on an asymmetric observation structure with two agents. Specifically, one agent …

We design polar codes for empirical coordination and strong coordination in two-node
networks. Our constructions hinge on the fact that polar codes enable explicit low-complexity …

The coordination of autonomous agents is a critical issue for decentralized communication
networks. Instead of transmitting information, the agents interact in a coordinated manner in …

In a decentralized and self-configuring network, the communication devices are considered
as autonomous decision makers that sense their environment and that implement optimal …

We study the problem of strong coordination in a three-terminal line network, in which
agents use common randomness and communicate over a line network to ensure that their …

We consider a network of two nodes separated by a noisy channel with two-sided state
information, in which the input and output signals have to be coordinated with the source …