Root Counting, the DFT and the Linear Complexity of Nonlinear Filtering

  • Authors:
  • Kenneth G. Paterson

  • Affiliations:
  • Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Filton Road, Stoke-Gifford, Bristol BS12 6QZ, U.K. E-mail: kp@hplb.hpl.hp.com

  • Venue:
  • Designs, Codes and Cryptography
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

The method of root counting is a well established technique in thestudy of the linear complexity of sequences. Recently, Massey and Serconek[11] have introduced a Discrete Fourier Transform approach to the study oflinear complexity. In this paper, we establish the equivalence of these twoapproaches. The power of the DFT methods are then harnessed to re-deriveRueppel‘s Root Presence Test, a key result in the theory of filtering ofm-sequences, in an elegant and concise way. The application of Rueppel‘sTest is then extended to give lower bounds on linear complexity for newclasses of filtering functions.