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Efficient Systematic Encoding of Non-binary VT Codes

Information Theory 2018-04-30 v3 math.IT

Abstract

Varshamov-Tenengolts (VT) codes are a class of codes which can correct a single deletion or insertion with a linear-time decoder. This paper addresses the problem of efficient encoding of non-binary VT codes, defined over an alphabet of size q>2q >2. We propose a simple linear-time encoding method to systematically map binary message sequences onto VT codewords. The method provides a new lower bound on the size of qq-ary VT codes of length nn.

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@article{arxiv.1708.04071,
  title  = {Efficient Systematic Encoding of Non-binary VT Codes},
  author = {Mahed Abroshan and Ramji Venkataramanan and Albert Guillen i Fabregas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.04071},
  year   = {2018}
}

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This paper will appear in the proceedings of ISIT 2018