Semidefinite Programs for the Design of Codes for Delay-Constrained Communication in Networks

  • Authors:
  • Frederique E. Oggier;Sergio D. Servetto

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • DCC '01 Proceedings of the Data Compression Conference
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Abstract: We consider the problem of designing codes for the problem of delay-constrained communication in packet networks. We show how good codes for this problem can be characterized as the solution of a pair of semidefinite programs plus a rank constraint. Using this characterization, we formulate the design problem as one of finding suitable graph embeddings into euclidean space, for a certain family of graphs which represent constraints that these codes must satisfy. In the case of codes in dimension 1, our formulation results in a good approximation algorithm for the classical problem of graph bandwidth, which may be of independent interest.