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Enhanced Recursive Reed-Muller Erasure Decoding

Information Theory 2016-01-27 v1 math.IT

Abstract

Recent work have shown that Reed-Muller (RM) codes achieve the erasure channel capacity. However, this performance is obtained with maximum-likelihood decoding which can be costly for practical applications. In this paper, we propose an encoding/decoding scheme for Reed-Muller codes on the packet erasure channel based on Plotkin construction. We present several improvements over the generic decoding. They allow, for a light cost, to compete with maximum-likelihood decoding performance, especially on high-rate codes, while significantly outperforming it in terms of speed.

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@article{arxiv.1601.06908,
  title  = {Enhanced Recursive Reed-Muller Erasure Decoding},
  author = {Alexandre Soro and Jerome Lacan and Vincent Roca and Valentin Savin and Mathieu Cunche},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.06908},
  year   = {2016}
}