Explicit codes achieving list decoding capacity: Error-correction with optimal redundancy

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 135-150

  Guruswami, Venkatesan ^a   Rudra, Atri ^b  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b State University of New York ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Algebraic decoding; Folded Reed Solomon codes; List decoding; List recovery; Reed Solomon codes

Indexed keywords

CODING ERRORS; DECODING; ERROR CORRECTION; POLYNOMIALS; REDUNDANCY; REED-SOLOMON CODES;

ALGEBRAIC DECODING; FOLDED REED-SOLOMON CODES; LIST RECOVERY;

CODES (SYMBOLS);

EID: 38349146703     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2007.911222     Document Type: Article

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