Venkatesan Guruswami

List Decoding of Error-Correcting Codes

Winning Thesis of the 2002 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Competition

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Produktbeschreibung

This monograph is a thoroughly revised and extended version of the author's PhD thesis, which was selected as the winning thesis of the 2002 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Competition. Venkatesan Guruswami did his PhD work at the MIT with Madhu Sudan as thesis adviser.
Starting with the seminal work of Shannon and Hamming, coding theory has generated a rich theory of error-correcting codes. This theory has traditionally gone hand in hand with the algorithmic theory of decoding that tackles the problem of recovering from the transmission errors efficiently. This book presents some spectacular new results in the area of decoding algorithms for error-correcting codes. Specificially, it shows how the notion of list-decoding can be applied to recover from far more errors, for a wide variety of error-correcting codes, than achievable before.
The style of the exposition is crisp and the enormous amount of information on combinatorial results, polynomial time list decoding algorithms, and applications is presented in well structured form.

Produktdetails

• Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3282
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Berlin Heidelberg / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 11365877, 978-3-540-24051-8
• 2005
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 554g
• ISBN-13: 9783540240518
• ISBN-10: 3540240519
• Artikelnr.: 13732946

Autorenporträt

Venkatesan Guruswami, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Preliminaries and Monograph Structure.- I Combinatorial Bounds.- 3 Johnson-Type Bounds and Applications to List Decoding.- 4 Limits to List Decodability.- 5 List Decodability Vs. Rate.- II Code Constructions and Algorithms.- 6 Reed-Solomon and Algebraic-Geometric Codes.- 7 A Unified Framework for List Decoding of Algebraic Codes.- 8 List Decoding of Concatenated Codes.- 9 New, Expander-Based List Decodable Codes.- 10 List Decoding from Erasures.- III Applications.- Interlude.- III Applications.- 11 Linear-Time Codes for Unique Decoding.- 12 Sample Applications Outside Coding Theory.- 13 Concluding Remarks.- A GMD Decoding of Concatenated Codes.