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In this paper we present a minimal list decoding algorithm for Reed-Solomon (RS) codes. Minimal list decoding for a code $C$ refers to list decoding with radius $L$, where $L$ is the minimum of the distances between the received word…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Mortuza Ali , Margreta Kuijper

In this paper we consider a Metzner-Kapturowski-like decoding algorithm for high-order interleaved sum-rank-metric codes, offering a novel perspective on the decoding process through the concept of an error code. The error code, defined as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Thomas Jerkovits , Felicitas Hörmann , Hannes Bartz

Short-length Reed--Muller codes under majority-logic decoding are of particular importance for efficient hardware implementations in real-time and embedded systems. This paper significantly improves Chen's two-step majority-logic decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-17 Peter Hauck , Michael Huber , Juliane Bertram , Dennis Brauchle , Sebastian Ziesche

Twisted generalized Reed-Solomon (TGRS) codes were introduced to extend the algebraic capabilities of classical generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) codes. This extension holds the potential for constructing new non-GRS maximum distance separable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Guanghui Zhang , Liren Lin , Bocong Chen

To harness the ever growing capacity and decreasing cost of storage, providing an abstraction of dependable storage in the presence of crash-stop and Byzantine failures is compulsory. We propose a decentralized Reed Solomon coding mechanism…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-11-19 Yunghsiang Han , Soji Omiwade , Rong Zheng

Despite of tremendous research on decoding Reed-Solomon (RS) and algebraic geometry (AG) codes under the random and adversary substitution error models, few studies have explored these codes under the burst substitution error model. Burst…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Songsong Li , Shu Liu , Liming Ma , Yunqi Wan , Chaoping Xing

Error-correcting codes are combinatorial objects designed to cope with the problem of reliable transmission of information on a noisy channel. A fundamental problem in coding theory and practice is to efficiently decode the received word…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Haojie Gu , Jun Zhang

Sum-rank-metric codes have wide applications in the multishot network coding and the distributed storage. Linearized Reed-Solomon codes, sum-rank BCH codes and their Welch-Berlekamp type decoding algorithms were proposed and studied. They…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Hao Chen , Yanfeng Qi , Zhiqiang Cheng

Today's massively-sized datasets have made it necessary to often perform computations on them in a distributed manner. In principle, a computational task is divided into subtasks which are distributed over a cluster operated by a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Wael Halbawi , Navid Azizan-Ruhi , Fariborz Salehi , Babak Hassibi

We propose to reduce the decoding complexity of polar codes with non-Arikan kernels by employing a (near) ML decoding algorithm for the codes generated by kernel rows. A generalization of the order statistics algorithm is presented for soft…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Peter Trifonov

MDS codes play a central role in practice due to their broad applications. To date, most known MDS codes are generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) codes, leaving codes that are not equivalent to GRS codes comparatively less understood. Studying…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Runtian Zhu , Lingfei Jin

We generalize the unique decoding algorithm for one-point AG codes over the Miura-Kamiya Cab curves proposed by Lee, Bras-Amor\'os and O'Sullivan (2012) to general one-point AG codes, without any assumption. We also extend their unique…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-14 Ryutaroh Matsumoto , Diego Ruano , Olav Geil

We present a new decoding algorithm based on error locating pairs and correcting an amount of errors exceeding half the minimum distance. When applied to Reed--Solomon or algebraic geometry codes, the algorithm is a reformulation of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Alain Couvreur , Isabella Panaccione

An iterative algorithm is presented for soft-input-soft-output (SISO) decoding of Reed-Solomon (RS) codes. The proposed iterative algorithm uses the sum product algorithm (SPA) in conjunction with a binary parity check matrix of the RS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Jing Jiang , Krishna R. Narayanan

In this work we will present algorithms for decoding rank metric codes. First we will look at a new decoding algorithm for Gabidulin codes using the property of Dickson matrices corresponding to linearized polynomials. We will be using a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Tovohery Hajatiana Randrianarisoa

Recursive list decoding of Reed-Muller (RM) codes, with moderate list size, is known to approach maximum-likelihood (ML) performance of short length $(\leq 256)$ RM codes. Recursive decoding employs the Plotkin construction to split the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Mikhail Kamenev

Recently, codes in the sum-rank metric attracted attention due to several applications in e.g. multishot network coding, distributed storage and quantum-resistant cryptography. The sum-rank analogs of Reed-Solomon and Gabidulin codes are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Felicitas Hörmann , Hannes Bartz

Constructing Reed-Solomon (RS) codes that can correct insertion and deletion (ins-del) errors has been the focus of several recent studies. However, efficient decoding algorithms for such codes have received less attention and remain a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Shubhransh Singhvi

Reed-Muller (RM) codes achieve the capacity of general binary-input memoryless symmetric channels and are conjectured to have a comparable performance to that of random codes in terms of scaling laws. However, such results are established…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Mohammad Vahid Jamali , Xiyang Liu , Ashok Vardhan Makkuva , Hessam Mahdavifar , Sewoong Oh , Pramod Viswanath

We show that the known list-decoding algorithms for univariate multiplicity and folded Reed-Solomon codes can be made to run in $\tilde{O}(n)$ time. Univariate multiplicity codes and FRS codes are natural variants of Reed-Solomon codes that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Rohan Goyal , Prahladh Harsha , Mrinal Kumar , Ashutosh Shankar