Explicit Non-adaptive Combinatorial Group Testing Schemes

  • Authors:
  • Ely Porat;Amir Rothschild

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel 52900;Dept. of Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel 52900

  • Venue:
  • ICALP '08 Proceedings of the 35th international colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming, Part I
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Group testing is a long studied problem in combinatorics: A small set of r ill people should be identified out of the whole (n people) by using only queries (tests) of the form "Does set X contain an ill human?". In this paper we provide an explicit construction of a testing scheme which is better (smaller) than any known explicit construction. This scheme has ${\it \Theta}\left({\min[r^2 \ln n,n]}\right)$ tests which is as many as the best non-explicit schemes have. In our construction we use a fact that may have a value by its own right: Linear error-correction codes with parameters [m,k,驴m] q meeting the Gilbert-Varshamov bound may be constructed quite efficiently, in ${\it \Theta}\left({q^km}\right)$ time.