Codes from Expander Graphs

  • Authors:
  • Tom Høholdt

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, Technical University of Denmark,

  • Venue:
  • ICMCTA '08 Proceedings of the 2nd international Castle meeting on Coding Theory and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We survey some recent work on codes based on bipartite expander graphs. The code symbols are associated with the branches and the symbols connected to a given node are restricted to be codewords in certain constituent codes (e.g. Reed---Solomon codes). This class turn out to contain some exellent codes. We give results on the parameters of the codes and methods for their encoding. We also analyze the performance under iterative decoding, partly based on a result on cores in random graphs.