Bounded distance decoding of linear error-correcting codes with Gröbner bases

  • Authors:
  • Stanislav Bulygin;Ruud Pellikaan

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, University of Kaiserslautern, Room No. 48-437, P.O. Box 3049, 67653 Kaiserslautern, Germany;Department of Mathematics and Computing Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, NL-5600 MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Symbolic Computation
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The problem of bounded distance decoding of arbitrary linear codes using Grobner bases is addressed. A new method is proposed, which is based on reducing an initial decoding problem to solving a certain system of polynomial equations over a finite field. The peculiarity of this system is that, when we want to decode up to half the minimum distance, it has a unique solution even over the algebraic closure of the considered finite field, although field equations are not added. The equations in the system have degree at most 2. As our experiments suggest, our method is much faster than the one of Fitzgerald-Lax. It is also shown via experiments that the proposed approach in some range of parameters is superior to the generic syndrome decoding.