Connections between Construction D and related constructions of lattices

From MaRDI portal
(Redirected from Publication:398950)




Abstract: Most practical constructions of lattice codes with high coding gains are multilevel constructions where each level corresponds to an underlying code component. Construction D, Construction D, and Forney's code formula are classical constructions that produce such lattices explicitly from a family of nested binary linear codes. In this paper, we investigate these three closely related constructions along with the recently developed Construction A of lattices from codes over the polynomial ring mathbbF2[u]/ua. We show that Construction by Code Formula produces a lattice packing if and only if the nested codes being used are closed under Schur product, thus proving the similarity of Construction D and Construction by Code Formula when applied to Reed-Muller codes. In addition, we relate Construction by Code Formula to Construction A by finding a correspondence between nested binary codes and codes over mathbbF2[u]/ua. This proves that any lattice constructible using Construction by Code Formula is also constructible using Construction A. Finally, we show that Construction A produces a lattice if and only if the corresponding code over mathbbF2[u]/ua is closed under shifted Schur product.









This page was built for publication: Connections between Construction D and related constructions of lattices

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q398950)