Guest column: error-correcting codes and expander graphs

  • Authors:
  • Venkatesan Guruswami

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Washington, Seattle, WA

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGACT News
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

The central algorithmic problem in coding theory is the construction of explicit error-correcting codes with good parameters together with fast algorithms for encoding a message and decoding a noisy received word into the correct message. Over the last decade, significant new developments have taken place on this problem using graph-based/combinatorial constructions that exploit the power of expander graphs. The role of expander graphs in theoretical computer science is by now certainly well-appreciated. Here, we will survey some of the highlights of the use of expanders in constructions of error-correcting codes.