On the list-decodability of random linear codes

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 718-725

  Guruswami, Venkatesan ^a   Hastad, Johan ^b   Kopparty, Swastik ^c  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hamming bound; linear codes; list decoding; probabilistic method; random coding

Indexed keywords

HAMMING BOUND; LINEAR CODES; LIST DECODING; PROBABILISTIC METHODS; RANDOM CODING;

DECODING;

EID: 79251490359     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2010.2095170     Document Type: Article

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