A Survey of Results for Deletion Channels and Related Synchronization Channels

  • Authors:
  • Michael Mitzenmacher

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University,

  • Venue:
  • SWAT '08 Proceedings of the 11th Scandinavian workshop on Algorithm Theory
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The binary symmetric channel, where each bit is independently received in error with probability p, and the binary erasure channel, where each bit is erased with probability p, enjoy a long and rich history. Shannon developed the fundamental results on the capacity of such channels in the 1940's [19], and in recent years, through the development and analysis of low-density parity-check codes and related families of codes, we understand how to achieve near-capacity performance for such channels extremely efficiently [2,13,17].