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On the error performance of the $A_n$ lattices

Information Theory 2011-11-29 v1 math.IT

Abstract

We consider the root lattice AnA_n and derive explicit formulae for the moments of its Voronoi cell. We then show that these formulae enable accurate prediction of the error probability of lattice codes constructed from AnA_n.

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@article{arxiv.1111.6334,
  title  = {On the error performance of the $A_n$ lattices},
  author = {Robby McKilliam and Ramanan Subramanian and Emanuele Viterbo and I. Vaughan L. Clarkson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.6334},
  year   = {2011}
}

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submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory