Recursive decoding and its performance for low-rate Reed-Muller codes

  • Authors:
  • I. Dumer

  • Affiliations:
  • Coll. of Eng., Univ. of California, Riverside, CA, USA

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Recursive decoding techniques are considered for Reed-Muller (RM) codes of growing length n and fixed order r. An algorithm is designed that has complexity of order nlogn and corrects most error patterns of weight up to n(1/2-ε) given that ε exceeds n-12r/. This improves the asymptotic bounds known for decoding RM codes with nonexponential complexity. To evaluate decoding capability, we develop a probabilistic technique that disintegrates decoding into a sequence of recursive steps. Although dependent, subsequent outputs can be tightly evaluated under the assumption that all preceding decodings are correct. In turn, this allows us to employ second-order analysis and find the error weights for which the decoding error probability vanishes on the entire sequence of decoding steps as the code length n grows.