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Correcting One Error in Non-Binary Channels with Feedback

Information Theory 2023-05-12 v1 Combinatorics math.IT

Abstract

In this paper, the problem of correction of a single error in qq-ary symmetric channel with noiseless feedback is considered. We propose an algorithm to construct codes with feedback inductively. For all prime power qq we prove that two instances of feedback are sufficient to transmit over the qq-ary symmetric channel the same number of messages as in the case of complete feedback. Our other contribution is the construction of codes with one-time feedback with the same parameters as Hamming codes for qq that is not a prime power. We also construct single-error-correcting codes with one-time feedback of size qn2q^{n-2} for arbitrary qq and nq+1n\leq q+1, which can be seen as an analog for Reed-Solomon codes.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2305.06691,
  title  = {Correcting One Error in Non-Binary Channels with Feedback},
  author = {Ilya Vorobyev and Vladimir Lebedev and Alexey Lebedev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.06691},
  year   = {2023}
}
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