Publications

Journal

• Efficient information reconciliation in quantum key distribution systems using informed design of non-binary LDPC codes [Springer]
  Debarnab Mitra, Lev Tauz, and Lara Dolecek
  Quantum Information Processing, 2024
  

• Graph Coded Merkle Tree: Mitigating Data Availability Attacks in Blockchain Systems Using Informed Design of Polar Factor Graphs [IEEE Xplore] [arXiv]
  Debarnab Mitra, Lev Tauz, and Lara Dolecek
  IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory, 2023
  

• Overcoming Data Availability Attacks in Blockchain Systems: Short Code-Length LDPC Code Design for Coded Merkle Tree [IEEE Xplore] [arXiv]
  Debarnab Mitra, Lev Tauz, and Lara Dolecek
  IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 70, no. 9, 2022
  

Conference

• Polar Coded Merkle Tree: Improved Detection of Data Availability Attacks in Blockchain Systems [IEEE Xplore] [arXiv]
  Debarnab Mitra, Lev Tauz, and Lara Dolecek
  in Proc. of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2022
  

• Communication-Efficient LDPC Code Design for Data Availability Oracle in Side Blockchains [IEEE Xplore] [arXiv]
  Debarnab Mitra, Lev Tauz, and Lara Dolecek
  in Proc. of the IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), 2021
  [Slides] [Slides Short] [Presentation Video]

• Concentrated Stopping Set Design for Coded Merkle Tree: Improving Security Against Data Availability Attacks in Blockchain Systems [IEEE Xplore] [arXiv]
  Debarnab Mitra, Lev Tauz, and Lara Dolecek
  in Proc. of the IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), 2020
  [Slides] [Slides Short] [Presentation Video]
  

  Poster Presentation at the IEEE North American School of Information Theory 2021 [Poster] (won the best poster award)

• Patterned Erasure Correcting Codes for Low Storage-Overhead Blockchain Systems [IEEE Xplore]
  Debarnab Mitra, and Lara Dolecek
  in Proc. of the IEEE Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers (ACSCC), 2019
  [Slides]

• On the Sum-capacity of Compound MAC Models with Distributed CSI and Unknown Fading Statistics [IEEE Xplore]
  Debarnab Mitra, Himanshu Asnani, and Sibi Raj B. Pillai
  in Proc. of the Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), 2019
  [Slides]