Error Exponents of Erasure/List Decoding Revisited Via Moments of Distance Enumerators
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Publication:3604971
DOI10.1109/TIT.2008.929004zbMATH Open1322.94113arXiv0711.2501MaRDI QIDQ3604971FDOQ3604971
Publication date: 24 February 2009
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: The analysis of random coding error exponents pertaining to erasure/list decoding, due to Forney, is revisited. Instead of using Jensen's inequality as well as some other inequalities in the derivation, we demonstrate that an exponentially tight analysis can be carried out by assessing the relevant moments of a certain distance enumerator. The resulting bound has the following advantages: (i) it is at least as tight as Forney's bound, (ii) under certain symmetry conditions associated with the channel and the random coding distribution, it is simpler than Forney's bound in the sense that it involves an optimization over one parameter only (rather than two), and (iii) in certain special cases, like the binary symmetric channel (BSC), the optimum value of this parameter can be found in closed form, and so, there is no need to conduct a numerical search. We have not found yet, however, a numerical example where this new bound is strictly better than Forney's bound. This may provide an additional evidence to support Forney's conjecture that his bound is tight for the average code. We believe that the technique we suggest in this paper can be useful in simplifying, and hopefully also improving, exponential error bounds in other problem settings as well.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0711.2501
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