Linear-programming decoding of nonbinary linear codes

  • Authors:

  • Mark F. Flanagan;Vitaly Skachek;Eimear Byrne;Marcus Greferath

  • Affiliations:

  • School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland;Claude Shannon Institute and the School of Mathematical Sciences, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland;Claude Shannon Institute and the School of Mathematical Sciences, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland;Claude Shannon Institute and the School of Mathematical Sciences, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

A framework for linear-programming (LP) decoding of nonbinary linear codes over rings is developed. This framework facilitates LP-based reception for coded modulation systems which use direct modulation mapping of coded symbols. It is proved that the resulting LP decoder has the "maximum-likelihood (ML) certificate" property. It is also shown that the decoder output is the lowest cost. pseudocodeword. Equivalence between pseudocodewords of the linear program and pseudocodewords of graph covers is proved. It is also proved that if the modulator-channel combination satisfies a particular symmetry condition, the codeword error rate performance is independent of the transmitted codeword. Two alternative polytopes for use with LP decoding are studied, and it is shown that for many classes of codes these polytopes yield a complexity advantage for decoding. These polytope representations lead to polynomial-time decoders for a wide variety of classical nonbinary linear codes. LP decoding performance is illustrated for the [11.6] ternary Golay code with ternary phase-shift keying (PSK) modulation over additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN), and in this case it is shown that the performance of the LP decoder is comparable to codeword-error-rate-optimum hard-decision-based decoding. LP decoding is also simulated for medium-length ternary and quaternary low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes with corresponding PSK modulations over AWGN.