On the complexity of minimum distance decoding of long linear codes

  • Authors:
  • A. Barg;E. Krouk;H. C.A. van Tilborg

  • Affiliations:
  • Math. Sci. Res. Center, AT&T Bell Labs., Murray Hill, NJ;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We suggest a decoding algorithm of q-ary linear codes, which we call supercode decoding. It ensures the error probability that approaches the error probability of minimum-distance decoding as the length of the code grows. For n→∞ the algorithm has the maximum-likelihood performance. The asymptotic complexity of supercode decoding is exponentially smaller than the complexity of all other methods known. The algorithm develops the ideas of covering-set decoding and split syndrome decoding