Soft decoding techniques for codes and Lattices, including the Golay code and the Leech Lattice

  • Authors:
  • J H Conway;J A Sloane

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • Year:
  • 1986

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Abstract

Two kinds of algorithms are considered.1)If *** is a binary code of lengthn, a "soft decision" decoding algorithm for *** changes an arbitrary point ofR^{n}into a nearest codeword (nearest in Euclidean distance).2)Similarly, a decoding algorithm for a latticeLambdainR^{n}changes an arbitrary point ofR^{n}into a closest lattice point. Some general methods are given for constructing such algorithms, ami are used to obtain new and faster decoding algorithms for the Gosset latticeE_{8}, the Golay code the Leech lattice.