Row reduction applied to decoding of rank-metric and subspace codes

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Abstract: We show that decoding of ell-Interleaved Gabidulin codes, as well as list-ell decoding of Mahdavifar--Vardy codes can be performed by row reducing skew polynomial matrices. Inspired by row reduction of F[x] matrices, we develop a general and flexible approach of transforming matrices over skew polynomial rings into a certain reduced form. We apply this to solve generalised shift register problems over skew polynomial rings which occur in decoding ell-Interleaved Gabidulin codes. We obtain an algorithm with complexity O(ellmu2) where mu measures the size of the input problem and is proportional to the code length n in the case of decoding. Further, we show how to perform the interpolation step of list-ell-decoding Mahdavifar--Vardy codes in complexity O(elln2), where n is the number of interpolation constraints.



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