Communication Over Finite-Field Matrix Channels

Autor: Frank R. Kschischang, Danilo Silva, Ralf Kötter
Rok vydání: 2010
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Zdroj: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 56:1296-1305
ISSN: 1557-9654
0018-9448
DOI: 10.1109/tit.2009.2039167
Popis: This paper is motivated by the problem of error control in network coding when errors are introduced in a random fashion (rather than chosen by an adversary). An additive-multiplicative matrix channel is considered as a model for random network coding. The model assumes that n packets of length m are transmitted over the network, and up to t erroneous packets are randomly chosen and injected into the network. Upper and lower bounds on capacity are obtained for any channel parameters, and asymptotic expressions are provided in the limit of large field or matrix size. A simple coding scheme is presented that achieves capacity in both limiting cases. The scheme has decoding complexity O(n^2 m) and a probability of error that decreases exponentially both in the packet length and in the field size in bits. Extensions of these results for coherent network coding are also presented.
24 pages, to be published at the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
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