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Interleaved Reed-Solomon codes admit efficient decoding algorithms which correct burst errors far beyond half the minimum distance in the random errors regime, e.g., by computing a common solution to the Key Equation for each Reed-Solomon…

Determining deep holes is an important topic in decoding Reed-Solomon codes. In a previous paper [8], we showed that the received word $u$ is a deep hole of the standard Reed-Solomon codes $[q-1, k]_q$ if its Lagrange interpolation…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-06-30 Shaofang Hong , Rongjun Wu

Algorithms based on multiple decoding attempts of Reed-Solomon (RS) codes have recently attracted new attention. Choosing decoding candidates based on rate-distortion (R-D) theory, as proposed previously by the authors, currently provides…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Phong S. Nguyen , Henry D. Pfister , Krishna R. Narayanan

The performance of Reed--Solomon codes (RS codes, for short) in the presence of insertion and deletion errors has attracted growing attention in recent literature. In this work, we further study this intriguing mathematical problem,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Peter Beelen , Roni Con , Anina Gruica , Maria Montanucci , Eitan Yaakobi

Assuming that we have a soft-decision list decoding algorithm of a linear code, a new hard-decision list decoding algorithm of its repeated code is proposed in this article. Although repeated codes are not used for encoding data, due to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Fernando Hernando , Michael O'Sullivan , Diego Ruano

Folded Reed-Solomon codes are an explicit family of codes that achieve the optimal trade-off between rate and error-correction capability: specifically, for any $\eps > 0$, the author and Rudra (2006,08) presented an $n^{O(1/\eps)}$ time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Venkatesan Guruswami

The classical family of Reed-Solomon codes consist of evaluations of polynomials over the finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$ of degree less than $k$, at $n$ distinct field elements. These are arguably the most widely used and studied codes, as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Neophytos Charalambides

We study Reed--Solomon codes over arbitrary fields, inspired by several recent papers dealing with Gabidulin codes over fields of characteristic zero. Over the field of rational numbers, we derive bounds on the coefficient growth during…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Carmen Sippel , Cornelia Ott , Sven Puchinger , Martin Bossert

We initiate a study of locally decodable codes with randomized encoding. Standard locally decodable codes are error correcting codes with a deterministic encoding function and a randomized decoding function, such that any desired message…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Kuan Cheng , Xin Li , Yu Zheng

Lifted codes are a class of evaluation codes attracting more attention due to good locality and intermediate availability. In this work we introduce and study quadratic-curve-lifted Reed-Solomon (QC-LRS) codes, where the codeword symbols…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Hedongliang Liu , Lukas Holzbaur , Nikita Polyanskii , Sven Puchinger , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

Decoding algorithms for Reed--Solomon (RS) codes are of great interest for both practical and theoretical reasons. In this paper, an efficient algorithm, called the modular approach (MA), is devised for solving the Welch--Berlekamp (WB) key…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Nianqi Tang , Yunghsiang S. Han

Algebraic decoding algorithms are commonly applied for the decoding of Reed-Solomon codes. Their main advantages are low computational complexity and predictable decoding capabilities. Many algorithms can be extended for correction of both…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Christian Senger , Vladimir R. Sidorenko , Steffen Schober , Martin Bossert , Victor V. Zyablov

Reed-Solomon codes are a classic family of error-correcting codes consisting of evaluations of low-degree polynomials over a finite field on some sequence of distinct field elements. They are widely known for their optimal unique-decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Omar Alrabiah , Zeyu Guo , Venkatesan Guruswami , Ray Li , Zihan Zhang

Lifted Reed-Solomon codes are a natural affine-invariant family of error-correcting codes which generalize Reed-Muller codes. They were known to have efficient local-testing and local-decoding algorithms (comparable to the known algorithms…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Alan Guo , Swastik Kopparty

The computational complexity of the Maximum Likelihood decoding algorithm in [1], [2] for orthogonal space-time block codes is smaller than specified.

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-08-08 Ender Ayanoglu

Recently, a number of authors have proposed decoding schemes for Reed-Solomon (RS) codes based on multiple trials of a simple RS decoding algorithm. In this paper, we present a rate-distortion (R-D) approach to analyze these…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-08-21 Phong S. Nguyen , Henry D. Pfister , Krishna R. Narayanan

New soft- and hard decision decoding algorithms are presented for general Reed-Muller codes $\left\{\genfrac{}{}{0pt}{}{m}{r}\right\} $ of length $2^{m}$ and distance $2^{m-r}$. We use Plotkin $(u,u+v)$ construction and decompose code…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Ilya Dumer

The classical Reed-Muller codes over a finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$ are based on evaluations of $m$-variate polynomials of degree at most $d$ over a product set $U^m$, for some $d$ less than $|U|$. Because of their good distance properties,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Swastik Kopparty , Mrinal Kumar , Harry Sha

We present a practical algorithm to decode erasures of Reed-Solomon codes over the q elements binary field in O(q \log_2^2 q) time where the constant implied by the O-notation is very small. Asymptotically fast algorithms based on fast…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-01-15 Frederic Didier

The performance of algebraic soft-decision decoding of Reed-Solomon codes using bit-level soft information is investigated. Optimal multiplicity assignment strategies of algebraic soft-decision decoding with infinite cost are first studied…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-08-05 Jing Jiang , Krishna R. Narayanan