ERROR CORRECTING CODES

The research that led to this thesis was inspired by Sudan's breakthrough that demonstrated that Reed-Solomon codes can correct more errors than previously thought. This breakthrough can render the current state-of-the-art Reed-Solomon decoders obsolete. Much of the importance o…

This dissertation is concerned with algebraic list-decoding of error-correcting codes. During the past decade, significant advances in this are were achieved. The breakthrough papers of Sudan, Guruswami & Sudan, and Koetter & Vardy showed that the well-known Reed-Solomon (and ot…

Low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes have made it possible to communicate at information rates very close to the Shannon capacity by combining sparsity with quasi-randomness, which enables the use of low-complexity iterative message-passing (IMP) decoders. So far, most systemat…