English

Polynomial time decodable codes for the binary deletion channel

Information Theory 2019-06-13 v3 Data Structures and Algorithms math.IT

Abstract

In the random deletion channel, each bit is deleted independently with probability pp. For the random deletion channel, the existence of codes of rate (1p)/9(1-p)/9, and thus bounded away from 00 for any p<1p < 1, has been known. We give an explicit construction with polynomial time encoding and deletion correction algorithms with rate c0(1p)c_0 (1-p) for an absolute constant c0>0c_0 > 0.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1705.01963,
  title  = {Polynomial time decodable codes for the binary deletion channel},
  author = {Venkatesan Guruswami and Ray Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.01963},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1612.06335. The published version of this paper incorrectly states the alphabet size in Theorem 3.4. This version states the result correctly

R2 v1 2026-06-22T19:37:30.019Z