Codes for deletion and insertion channels with segmented errors

  • Authors:
  • Zhenming Liu;Michael Mitzenmacher

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

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We consider deletion channels and insertion channels under an additional segmentation assumption: the input consists of disjoint segments of b consecutive bits, with at most one error per segment. Under this assumption, we demonstrate simple and computationally efficient deterministic encoding and decoding schemes that achieve a high provable rate even under worst case errors.We also consider more complex schemes that experimentally achieve higher rates under random error.