10 research outputs found
List-Decoding of Binary Goppa Codes up to the Binary Johnson Bound
International audienceWe study the list-decoding problem of alternant codes (which includes obviously that of classical Goppa codes). The major consideration here is to take into account the (small) size of the alphabet. This amounts to comparing the generic Johnson bound to the q-ary Johnson bound. The most favourable case is q = 2, for which the decoding radius is greatly improved. Even though the announced result, which is the list-decoding radius of binary Goppa codes, is new, we acknowledge that it can be made up from separate previous sources, which may be a little bit unknown, and where the binary Goppa codes has apparently not been thought at. Only D. J. Bernstein has treated the case of binary Goppa codes in a preprint. References are given in the introduction. We propose an autonomous and simplified treatment and also a complexity analysis of the studied algorithm, which is quadratic in the blocklength n, when decoding away of the relative maximum decoding radius
Re-encoding reformulation and application to Welch-Berlekamp algorithm
The main decoding algorithms for Reed-Solomon codes are based on a bivariate
interpolation step, which is expensive in time complexity. Lot of interpolation
methods were proposed in order to decrease the complexity of this procedure,
but they stay still expensive. Then Koetter, Ma and Vardy proposed in 2010 a
technique, called re-encoding, which allows to reduce the practical running
time. However, this trick is only devoted for the Koetter interpolation
algorithm. We propose a reformulation of the re-encoding for any interpolation
methods. The assumption for this reformulation permits only to apply it to the
Welch-Berlekamp algorithm
On Quasi-Cyclic Codes as a Generalization of Cyclic Codes
In this article we see quasi-cyclic codes as block cyclic codes. We
generalize some properties of cyclic codes to quasi-cyclic ones such as
generator polynomials and ideals. Indeed we show a one-to-one correspondence
between l-quasi-cyclic codes of length m and ideals of M_l(Fq)[X]/(X^m-1). This
permits to construct new classes of codes, namely quasi-BCH and
quasi-evaluation codes. We study the parameters of such codes and propose a
decoding algorithm up to half the designed minimum distance. We even found one
new quasi-cyclic code with better parameters than known [189, 11, 125]_F4 and
48 derivated codes beating the known bounds as well.Comment: (18/08/2011
On Rational Interpolation-Based List-Decoding and List-Decoding Binary Goppa Codes
We derive the Wu list-decoding algorithm for Generalised Reed-Solomon (GRS)
codes by using Gr\"obner bases over modules and the Euclidean algorithm (EA) as
the initial algorithm instead of the Berlekamp-Massey algorithm (BMA). We
present a novel method for constructing the interpolation polynomial fast. We
give a new application of the Wu list decoder by decoding irreducible binary
Goppa codes up to the binary Johnson radius. Finally, we point out a connection
between the governing equations of the Wu algorithm and the Guruswami-Sudan
algorithm (GSA), immediately leading to equality in the decoding range and a
duality in the choice of parameters needed for decoding, both in the case of
GRS codes and in the case of Goppa codes.Comment: To appear in IEEE Transactions of Information Theor