Coding for Errors and Erasures in Random Network Coding

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DOI10.1109/TIT.2008.926449zbMATH Open1318.94111DBLPjournals/tit/KoetterK08arXivcs/0703061OpenAlexW2139416652WikidataQ59767805 ScholiaQ59767805MaRDI QIDQ3604797FDOQ3604797


Authors: R. Kötter, Frank R. Kschischang Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 24 February 2009

Published in: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The problem of error-control in random linear network coding is considered. A ``noncoherent or ``channel oblivious model is assumed where neither transmitter nor receiver is assumed to have knowledge of the channel transfer characteristic. Motivated by the property that linear network coding is vector-space preserving, information transmission is modelled as the injection into the network of a basis for a vector space V and the collection by the receiver of a basis for a vector space U. A metric on the projective geometry associated with the packet space is introduced, and it is shown that a minimum distance decoder for this metric achieves correct decoding if the dimension of the space VcapU is sufficiently large. If the dimension of each codeword is restricted to a fixed integer, the code forms a subset of a finite-field Grassmannian, or, equivalently, a subset of the vertices of the corresponding Grassmann graph. Sphere-packing and sphere-covering bounds as well as a generalization of the Singleton bound are provided for such codes. Finally, a Reed-Solomon-like code construction, related to Gabidulin's construction of maximum rank-distance codes, is described and a Sudan-style ``list-1 minimum distance decoding algorithm is provided.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0703061




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