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Upper and lower bounds on the error probability of linear codes under maximum-likelihood (ML) decoding are shortly surveyed and applied to ensembles of codes on graphs. For upper bounds, focus is put on Gallager bounding techniques and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Igal Sason , Shlomo Shamai

In a recent paper, Brakensiek, Gopi and Makam introduced higher order MDS codes as a generalization of MDS codes. An order-$\ell$ MDS code, denoted by $\operatorname{MDS}(\ell)$, has the property that any $\ell$ subspaces formed from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Joshua Brakensiek , Sivakanth Gopi , Visu Makam

Several recently proposed code-based cryptosystems base their security on a slightly generalized version of the classical (syndrome) decoding problem. Namely, in the so-called restricted (syndrome) decoding problem, the error values stem…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Marco Baldi , Sebastian Bitzer , Alessio Pavoni , Paolo Santini , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Violetta Weger

In this paper we devise a rational curve fitting algorithm and apply it to the list decoding of Reed-Solomon and BCH codes. The proposed list decoding algorithms exhibit the following significant properties. 1 The algorithm corrects up to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-12-10 Yingquan Wu

Folded Reed-Solomon codes, introduced by Guruswami and Rudra in 2007, have been shown to achieve the information-theoretically best possible trade-off between the rate of a code and the error-correction radius. In 2024, Bergamaschi,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Gretchen L. Matthews , Julia Shapiro

A novel permutation decoding method for Reed-Muller codes is presented. The complexity and the error correction performance of the suggested permutation decoding approach are similar to that of the recursive lists decoder. It is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Mikhail Kamenev , Yulia Kameneva , Oleg Kurmaev , Alexey Maevskiy

For communication systems with heavy burst noise, an optimal Forward Error Correction (FEC) scheme is expected to have a large burst error correction capacity while simultaneously owning moderate random error correction capability. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-27 Z. Wang , A. Chini , M. Kilani , J. Zhou

We examine an error-correcting coding framework in which each coded symbol is constrained to be a function of a fixed subset of the message symbols. With an eye toward distributed storage applications, we seek to design systematic codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-23 Wael Halbawi , Matthew Thill , Babak Hassibi

The list decoding problem for a code asks for the maximal radius up to which any ball of that radius contains only a constant number of codewords. The list decoding radius is not well understood even for well studied codes, like…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-07-18 Abhishek Bhowmick , Shachar Lovett

In this work, we present an abstract framework for some algebraic error-correcting codes with the aim of capturing codes that are list-decodable to capacity, along with their decoding algorithm. In the polynomial ideal framework, a code is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Siddharth Bhandari , Prahladh Harsha , Mrinal Kumar , Madhu Sudan

This paper studies random-coding error exponents of randomised list decoding, in which the decoder randomly selects $L$ messages with probabilities proportional to the decoding metric of the codewords. The exponents (or bounds) are given…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Henrique K. Miyamoto , Sheng Yang

Subspace codes and rank-metric codes can be used to correct errors and erasures in network, with linear network coding. Subspace codes were introduced by Koetter and Kschischang to correct errors and erasures in networks where topology is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-07 Hessam Mahdavifar , Alexander Vardy

In coding theory, Reed-Solomon codes are one of the most well-known and widely used classes of error-correcting codes. In this thesis we study and compare two major strategies known for their decoding procedure, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-10 Irene Giacomelli

Under polynomial time reduction, the maximum likelihood decoding of a linear code is equivalent to computing the error distance of a received word. It is known that the decoding complexity of standard Reed-Solomon codes at certain radius is…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-08-13 Li Yujuan , Zhu Guizhen

The aim of this article is to give lower bounds on the parameters of algebraic geometric error-correcting codes constructed from projective bundles over Deligne--Lusztig surfaces. The methods based on an intensive use of the intersection…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Daniel Camazón Portela , Juan Antonio López Ramos

An iterative decoding algorithm for convolutional codes is presented. It successively processes $N$ consecutive blocks of the received word in order to decode the first block. A bound is presented showing which error configurations can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-08-07 H. Gluesing-Luerssen , U. Helmke , J. I. Iglesias Curto

This paper presents an achievability bound that evaluates the exact probability of error of an ensemble of random codes that are decoded by a minimum distance decoder. Compared to the state-of-the-art which demands exponential computation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Ioannis Papoutsidakis , Angela Doufexi , Robert J. Piechocki

A scheme for concatenating the recently invented polar codes with non-binary MDS codes, as Reed-Solomon codes, is considered. By concatenating binary polar codes with interleaved Reed-Solomon codes, we prove that the proposed concatenation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Hessam Mahdavifar , Mostafa El-Khamy , Jungwon Lee , Inyup Kang

We decode Reed-Solomon codes using soft information provided at the receiver. The Extended Euclidean Algorithm (EEA) is considered as an initial step to obtain an intermediate result. The final decoding result is obtained by interpolating…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-04 Mostafa Hosni Mohamed , Johan S. R. Nielsen , Martin Bossert

Folded Reed-Solomon (FRS) codes are a well-studied family of codes, known for achieving list decoding capacity. In this work, we give improved deterministic and randomized algorithms for list decoding FRS codes of rate $R$ up to radius…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Vikrant Ashvinkumar , Mursalin Habib , Shashank Srivastava