285 research outputs found
A Rank-Metric Approach to Error Control in Random Network Coding
The problem of error control in random linear network coding is addressed
from a matrix perspective that is closely related to the subspace perspective
of K\"otter and Kschischang. A large class of constant-dimension subspace codes
is investigated. It is shown that codes in this class can be easily constructed
from rank-metric codes, while preserving their distance properties. Moreover,
it is shown that minimum distance decoding of such subspace codes can be
reformulated as a generalized decoding problem for rank-metric codes where
partial information about the error is available. This partial information may
be in the form of erasures (knowledge of an error location but not its value)
and deviations (knowledge of an error value but not its location). Taking
erasures and deviations into account (when they occur) strictly increases the
error correction capability of a code: if erasures and
deviations occur, then errors of rank can always be corrected provided that
, where is the minimum rank distance of the
code. For Gabidulin codes, an important family of maximum rank distance codes,
an efficient decoding algorithm is proposed that can properly exploit erasures
and deviations. In a network coding application where packets of length
over are transmitted, the complexity of the decoding algorithm is given
by operations in an extension field .Comment: Minor corrections; 42 pages, to be published at the IEEE Transactions
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Complexity Analysis of Reed-Solomon Decoding over GF(2^m) Without Using Syndromes
For the majority of the applications of Reed-Solomon (RS) codes, hard
decision decoding is based on syndromes. Recently, there has been renewed
interest in decoding RS codes without using syndromes. In this paper, we
investigate the complexity of syndromeless decoding for RS codes, and compare
it to that of syndrome-based decoding. Aiming to provide guidelines to
practical applications, our complexity analysis differs in several aspects from
existing asymptotic complexity analysis, which is typically based on
multiplicative fast Fourier transform (FFT) techniques and is usually in big O
notation. First, we focus on RS codes over characteristic-2 fields, over which
some multiplicative FFT techniques are not applicable. Secondly, due to
moderate block lengths of RS codes in practice, our analysis is complete since
all terms in the complexities are accounted for. Finally, in addition to fast
implementation using additive FFT techniques, we also consider direct
implementation, which is still relevant for RS codes with moderate lengths.
Comparing the complexities of both syndromeless and syndrome-based decoding
algorithms based on direct and fast implementations, we show that syndromeless
decoding algorithms have higher complexities than syndrome-based ones for high
rate RS codes regardless of the implementation. Both errors-only and
errors-and-erasures decoding are considered in this paper. We also derive
tighter bounds on the complexities of fast polynomial multiplications based on
Cantor's approach and the fast extended Euclidean algorithm.Comment: 11 pages, submitted to EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and
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PERFORMANCE COMPARISON OF NON-INTERLEAVED BCH CODES AND INTERLEAVED BCH CODES
This project covers the research about the BCH error correcting codes and the
performance of interleaved and non-interleaved BCH codes. Both long and short
BCH codes for multimedia communication are examined in an A WGN channel.
Algorithm for simulating the BCH codes was also being investigated, which includes
generating the parity check matrix, generating the message code in Galois array
matrix, encoding the message blocks, modulation and decoding the message blocks.
Algorithm for interleaving that includes interleaving message, including burst errors
and deinterleaving message is combined with the BCH codes algorithm for
simulating the interleaved BCH codes. The performance and feasibility of the coding
structure are tested. The performance comparison between interleaved and noninterleaved
BCH codes is studied in terms of error performance, channel performance
and effect of data rates on the bit error rate (BER). The Berlekamp-Massey Algorithm
decoding scheme was implemented. Random integers are generated and encoded with
BCH encoder. Burst errors are added before the message is interleaved, then enter
modulation and channel simulation. Interleaved message is then compared with noninterleaved
message and the error statistics are compared. Initially, certain amount of
burst errors is used. "ft is found that the graph does not agree with the theoretical bit
error rate (BER) versus signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). When compared between each
BCH codeword (i.e. n = 31, n = 63 and n = 127), n = 31 shows the highest BER while
n = 127 shows the lowest BER. This happened because of the occurrence of error
bursts and also due to error frequency. A reduced size or errors from previous is used
in the algorithm. A graph similar to the theoretical BER vs SNR is obtained for both
interleaved and non-interleaved BCH codes. It is found that BER of non-interleaved
is higher than interleaved BCH codes as SNR increases. These observations show that
size of errors influence the effect of interleaving. Simulation time is also studied in
terms of block length. It is found that interleaved BCH codes consume longer
simulation time compared to non-interleaved BCH codes due to additional algorithm
for the interleaved BCH codes
Lemma for Linear Feedback Shift Registers and DFTs Applied to Affine Variety Codes
In this paper, we establish a lemma in algebraic coding theory that
frequently appears in the encoding and decoding of, e.g., Reed-Solomon codes,
algebraic geometry codes, and affine variety codes. Our lemma corresponds to
the non-systematic encoding of affine variety codes, and can be stated by
giving a canonical linear map as the composition of an extension through linear
feedback shift registers from a Grobner basis and a generalized inverse
discrete Fourier transform. We clarify that our lemma yields the error-value
estimation in the fast erasure-and-error decoding of a class of dual affine
variety codes. Moreover, we show that systematic encoding corresponds to a
special case of erasure-only decoding. The lemma enables us to reduce the
computational complexity of error-evaluation from O(n^3) using Gaussian
elimination to O(qn^2) with some mild conditions on n and q, where n is the
code length and q is the finite-field size.Comment: 37 pages, 1 column, 10 figures, 2 tables, resubmitted to IEEE
Transactions on Information Theory on Jan. 8, 201
Error-Erasure Decoding of Linearized Reed-Solomon Codes in the Sum-Rank Metric
Codes in the sum-rank metric have various applications in error control for
multishot network coding, distributed storage and code-based cryptography.
Linearized Reed-Solomon (LRS) codes contain Reed-Solomon and Gabidulin codes as
subclasses and fulfill the Singleton-like bound in the sum-rank metric with
equality. We propose the first known error-erasure decoder for LRS codes to
unleash their full potential for multishot network coding. The presented
syndrome-based Berlekamp-Massey-like error-erasure decoder can correct
full errors, row erasures and column erasures up to in the sum-rank metric requiring at most
operations in , where is the code's length and its
dimension. We show how the proposed decoder can be used to correct errors in
the sum-subspace metric that occur in (noncoherent) multishot network coding.Comment: 6 pages, presented at ISIT 202
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