Simultaneous Decoding of Classical Coset Codes over $3-$User Quantum Broadcast Channel: New Achievable Rate Regions
Fatma Gouiaa, Arun Padakandla
TL;DR
The paper addresses the problem of characterizing inner bounds for reliable bit transmission over a general $3$-user classical-quantum broadcast channel ($3$-CQBC). It introduces a two-stage coding strategy that combines partitioned coset codes with Sen's tilting, smoothing and augmentation (TSA) to enable simultaneous decoding of both unstructured and algebraically structured codewords. The first stage (Step I) derives an inner bound $oldsymbol{ ilde{oldsymbol{oldsymbol{oldsymbol{oldsymbol{oldsymbol{ackslash}}}}}}$ by decoding bivariate interference components using a TSA-based simultaneous decoder; the second stage (Step II) enlarges the rate region to $oldsymbol{US}$ by augmenting with unstructured IID Marton-type codes, yielding a bound that subsumes all prior inner bounds. The main contributions are the explicit inner bounds (Theorems analogous to Thm.3CQBCStepIInnerBound and Thm.Step2) that integrate coset-code structure with TSA in a quantum network setting, and the demonstration that jointly decoding bivariate and univariate interference yields strictly larger capacity regions for the $3$-CQBC. This advances coding strategies for quantum broadcast channels and informs practical strategies for quantum networks where interference management is crucial.
Abstract
Combining the technique of employing coset codes for communicating over a quantum broadcast channel and the recent discovery of \textit{tilting, smoothing and augmentation} by Sen to perform simultaneous decoding over network quantum channels, we derive new inner bounds to the capacity region of a $3-$user classical quantum broadcast channel that subsumes all known.
