Permutation Decoding and the Stopping Redundancy Hierarchy of Cyclic and Extended Cyclic Codes

We introduce the notion of the stopping redundancy hierarchy of a linear block code as a measure of the trade-off between performance and complexity of iterative decoding for the binary erasure channel. We derive lower and upper bounds for the stopping redundancy hierarchy via Lovasz's Local Lemma and Bonferroni-type inequalities, and specialize them for codes with cyclic parity-check matrices. Based on the observed properties of parity-check matrices with good stopping redundancy characteristics, we develop a novel decoding technique, termed automorphism group decoding, that combines iterative message passing and permutation decoding. We also present bounds on the smallest number of permutations of an automorphism group decoder needed to correct any set of erasures up to a prescribed size. Simulation results demonstrate that for a large number of algebraic codes, the performance of the new decoding method is close to that of maximum likelihood decoding.Comment: 40 pages, 6 figures, 10 tables, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theor

Efficient Linear Programming Decoding of HDPC Codes

We propose several improvements for Linear Programming (LP) decoding algorithms for High Density Parity Check (HDPC) codes. First, we use the automorphism groups of a code to create parity check matrix diversity and to generate valid cuts from redundant parity checks. Second, we propose an efficient mixed integer decoder utilizing the branch and bound method. We further enhance the proposed decoders by removing inactive constraints and by adapting the parity check matrix prior to decoding according to the channel observations. Based on simulation results the proposed decoders achieve near-ML performance with reasonable complexity.Comment: Submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Communications, November 200

Efficient Maximum-Likelihood Decoding of Linear Block Codes on Binary Memoryless Channels

In this work, we consider efficient maximum-likelihood decoding of linear block codes for small-to-moderate block lengths. The presented approach is a branch-and-bound algorithm using the cutting-plane approach of Zhang and Siegel (IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2012) for obtaining lower bounds. We have compared our proposed algorithm to the state-of-the-art commercial integer program solver CPLEX, and for all considered codes our approach is faster for both low and high signal-to-noise ratios. For instance, for the benchmark (155,64) Tanner code our algorithm is more than 11 times as fast as CPLEX for an SNR of 1.0 dB on the additive white Gaussian noise channel. By a small modification, our algorithm can be used to calculate the minimum distance, which we have again verified to be much faster than using the CPLEX solver.Comment: Submitted to 2014 International Symposium on Information Theory. 5 Pages. Accepte

Deterministic Construction of Binary, Bipolar and Ternary Compressed Sensing Matrices

In this paper we establish the connection between the Orthogonal Optical Codes (OOC) and binary compressed sensing matrices. We also introduce deterministic bipolar $m\times n$ RIP fulfilling $\pm 1$ matrices of order $k$ such that $m\leq\mathcal{O}\big(k (\log_2 n)^{\frac{\log_2 k}{\ln \log_2 k}}\big)$. The columns of these matrices are binary BCH code vectors where the zeros are replaced by -1. Since the RIP is established by means of coherence, the simple greedy algorithms such as Matching Pursuit are able to recover the sparse solution from the noiseless samples. Due to the cyclic property of the BCH codes, we show that the FFT algorithm can be employed in the reconstruction methods to considerably reduce the computational complexity. In addition, we combine the binary and bipolar matrices to form ternary sensing matrices ($\{0,1,-1\}$ elements) that satisfy the RIP condition.Comment: The paper is accepted for publication in IEEE Transaction on Information Theor

새로운 소실 채널을 위한 자기동형 군 복호기 및 부분 접속 복구 부호 및 일반화된 근 프로토그래프 LDPC 부호의 설계

학위논문 (박사)-- 서울대학교 대학원 : 공과대학 전기·컴퓨터공학부, 2019. 2. 노종선.In this dissertation, three main contributions are given asi) new two-stage automorphism group decoders (AGD) for cyclic codes in the erasure channel, ii) new constructions of binary and ternary locally repairable codes (LRCs) using cyclic codes and existing LRCs, and iii) new constructions of high-rate generalized root protograph (GRP) low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes for a nonergodic block interference and partially regular (PR) LDPC codes for follower noise jamming (FNJ), are considered. First, I propose a new two-stage AGD (TS-AGD) for cyclic codes in the erasure channel. Recently, error correcting codes in the erasure channel have drawn great attention for various applications such as distributed storage systems and wireless sensor networks, but many of their decoding algorithms are not practical because they have higher decoding complexity and longer delay. Thus, the AGD for cyclic codes in the erasure channel was introduced, which has good erasure decoding performance with low decoding complexity. In this research, I propose new TS-AGDs for cyclic codes in the erasure channel by modifying the parity check matrix and introducing the preprocessing stage to the AGD scheme. The proposed TS-AGD is analyzed for the perfect codes, BCH codes, and maximum distance separable (MDS) codes. Through numerical analysis, it is shown that the proposed decoding algorithm has good erasure decoding performance with lower decoding complexity than the conventional AGD. For some cyclic codes, it is shown that the proposed TS-AGD achieves the perfect decoding in the erasure channel, that is, the same decoding performance as the maximum likelihood (ML) decoder. For MDS codes, TS-AGDs with the expanded parity check matrix and the submatrix inversion are also proposed and analyzed. Second, I propose new constructions of binary and ternary LRCs using cyclic codes and existing two LRCs for distributed storage system. For a primitive work, new constructions of binary and ternary LRCs using cyclic codes and their concatenation are proposed. Some of proposed binary LRCs with Hamming weights 4, 5, and 6 are optimal in terms of the upper bounds. In addition, the similar method of the binary case is applied to construct the ternary LRCs with good parameters. Also, new constructions of binary LRCs with large Hamming distance and disjoint repair groups are proposed. The proposed binary linear LRCs constructed by using existing binary LRCs are optimal or near-optimal in terms of the bound with disjoint repair group. Last, I propose new constructions of high-rate GRP LDPC codes for a nonergodic block interference and anti-jamming PR LDPC codes for follower jamming. The proposed high-rate GRP LDPC codes are based on nonergodic two-state binary symmetric channel with block interference and Nakagami-$m$ block fading. In these channel environments, GRP LDPC codes have good performance approaching to the theoretical limit in the channel with one block interference, where their performance is shown by the channel threshold or the channel outage probability. In the proposed design, I find base matrices using the protograph extrinsic information transfer (PEXIT) algorithm. Also, the proposed new constructions of anti-jamming partially regular LDPC codes is based on follower jamming on the frequency-hopped spread spectrum (FHSS). For a channel environment, I suppose follower jamming with random dwell time and Rayleigh block fading environment with M-ary frequnecy shift keying (MFSK) modulation. For a coding perspective, an anti-jamming LDPC codes against follower jamming are introduced. In order to optimize the jamming environment, the partially regular structure and corresponding density evolution schemes are used. A series of simulations show that the proposed codes outperforms the 802.16e standard in the presence of follower noise jamming.이 논문에서는, i) 소실 채널에서 순환 부호의 새로운 이단 자기동형 군 복호기 , ii) 분산 저장 시스템을 위한 순환 부호 및 기존의 부분 접속 복구 부호(LRC)를 이용한 이진 혹은 삼진 부분 접속 복구 부호 설계법, 및 iii) 블록 간섭 환경을 위한 고부효율의 일반화된 근 프로토그래프(generalized root protograph, GRP) LDPC 부호 및 추적 재밍 환경을 위한 항재밍 부분 균일 (anti-jamming paritally regular, AJ-PR) LDPC 부호가 연구되었다. 첫번째로, 소실 채널에서 순환 부호의 새로운 이단 자기동형 군 복호기를 제안하였다. 최근 분산 저장 시스템 혹은 무선 센서 네트워크 등의 응용으로 인해 소실 채널에서의 오류 정정 부호 기법이 주목받고 있다. 그러나 많은 복호기 알고리즘은 높은 복호 복잡도 및 긴 지연으로 인해 실용적이지 못하다. 따라서 낮은 복호 복잡도 및 높은 성능을 보일 수 있는 순환 부호에서 이단 자기 동형 군 복호기가 제안되었다. 본 연구에서는 패리티 검사 행렬을 변형하고, 전처리 과정을 도입한 새로운 이단 자기동형 군 복호기를 제안한다. 제안한 복호기는 perfect 부호, BCH 부호 및 최대 거리 분리 (maximum distance separable, MDS) 부호에 대해서 분석되었다. 수치 분석을 통해, 제안된 복호 알고리즘은 기존의 자기 동형 군 복호기보다 낮은 복잡도를 보이며, 몇몇의 순환 부호 및 소실 채널에서 최대 우도 (maximal likelihood, ML)과 같은 수준의 성능임을 보인다. MDS 부호의 경우, 확장된 패리티검사 행렬 및 작은 크기의 행렬의 역연산을 활용하였을 경우의 성능을 분석한다. 두 번째로, 분산 저장 시스템을 위한 순환 부호 및 기존의 부분 접속 복구 부호 (LRC)를 이용한 이진 혹은 삼진 부분 접속 복구 부호 설계법을 제안하였다. 초기 연구로서, 순환 부호 및 연접을 활용한 이진 및 삼진 LRC 설계 기법이 연구되었다. 최소 해밍 거리가 4,5, 혹은 6인 제안된 이진 LRC 중 일부는 상한과 비교해 보았을 때 최적 설계임을 증명하였다. 또한, 비슷한 방법을 적용하여 좋은 파라미터의 삼진 LRC를 설계할 수 있었다. 그 외에 기존의 LRC를 활용하여 큰 해밍 거리의 새로운 LRC를 설계하는 방법을 제안하였다. 제안된 LRC는 분리된 복구 군 조건에서 최적이거나 최적에 가까운 값을 보였다. 마지막으로, GRP LDPC 부호는 Nakagami-$m$ 블록 페이딩 및 블록 간섭이 있는 두 상태의 이진 대칭 채널을 기반으로 한다. 이러한 채널 환경에서 GRP LDPC 부호는 하나의 블록 간섭이 발생했을 경우, 이론적 성능에 가까운 좋은 성능을 보여준다. 이러한 이론 값은 채널 문턱값이나 채널 outage 확률을 통해 검증할 수 있다. 제안된 설계에서는, 변형된 PEXIT 알고리즘을 활용하여 기초 행렬을 설계한다. 또한 AJ-PR LDPC 부호는 주파수 도약 환경에서 발생하는 추적 재밍이 있는 환경을 기반으로 한다. 채널 환경으로 MFSK 변복조 방식의 레일리 블록 페이딩 및 무작위한 지속 시간이 있는 재밍 환경을 가정한다. 이러한 재밍 환경으로 최적화하기 위해, 부분 균일 구조 및 해당되는 밀도 진화 (density evolution, DE) 기법이 활용된다. 여러 시뮬레이션 결과는 추적 재밍이 존재하는 환경에서 제안된 부호가 802.16e에 사용되었던 LDPC 부호보다 성능이 우수함을 보여준다.Contents Abstract Contents List of Tables List of Figures 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background 1.2 Overview of Dissertation 1.3 Notations 2 Preliminaries 2.1 IED and AGD for Erasure Channel 2.1.1 Iterative Erasure Decoder 2.1.1 Automorphism Group Decoder 2.2. Binary Locally Repairable Codes for Distributed Storage System 2.2.1 Bounds and Optimalities of Binary LRCs 2.2.2 Existing Optimal Constructions of Binary LRCs 2.3 Channels with Block Interference and Jamming 2.3.1 Channels with Block Interference 2.3.2 Channels with Jamming with MFSK and FHSS Environment. 3 New Two-Stage Automorphism Group Decoders for Cyclic Codes in the Erasure Channel 3.1 Some Definitions 3.2 Modification of Parity Check Matrix and Two-Stage AGD 3.2.1 Modification of the Parity Check Matrix 3.2.2 A New Two-Stage AGD 3.2.3 Analysis of Modification Criteria for the Parity Check Matrix 3.2.4 Analysis of Decoding Complexity of TS-AGD 3.2.5 Numerical Analysis for Some Cyclic Codes 3.3 Construction of Parity Check Matrix and TS-AGD for Cyclic MDS Codes 3.3.1 Modification of Parity Check Matrix for Cyclic MDS Codes . 3.3.2 Proposed TS-AGD for Cyclic MDS Codes 3.3.3 Perfect Decoding by TS-AGD with Expanded Parity Check Matrix for Cyclic MDS Codes 3.3.4 TS-AGD with Submatrix Inversion for Cyclic MDS Codes . . 4 New Constructions of Binary and Ternary LRCs Using Cyclic Codes and Existing LRCs 4.1 Constructions of Binary LRCs Using Cyclic Codes 4.2 Constructions of Linear Ternary LRCs Using Cyclic Codes 4.3 Constructions of Binary LRCs with Disjoint Repair Groups Using Existing LRCs 4.4 New Constructions of Binary Linear LRCs with d ≥ 8 Using Existing LRCs 5 New Constructions of Generalized RP LDPC Codes for Block Interference and Partially Regular LDPC Codes for Follower Jamming 5.1 Generalized RP LDPC Codes for a Nonergodic BI 5.1.1 Minimum Blockwise Hamming Weight 5.1.2 Construction of GRP LDPC Codes 5.2 Asymptotic and Numerical Analyses of GRP LDPC Codes 5.2.1 Asymptotic Analysis of LDPC Codes 5.2.2 Numerical Analysis of Finite-Length LDPC Codes 5.3 Follower Noise Jamming with Fixed Scan Speed 5.4 Anti-Jamming Partially Regular LDPC Codes for Follower Noise Jamming 5.4.1 Simplified Channel Model and Corresponding Density Evolution 5.4.2 Construction of AJ-PR-LDPC Codes Based on DE 5.5 Numerical Analysis of AJ-PR LDPC Codes 6 Conclusion Abstract (In Korean)Docto