DSN Progress Reporl 42.51 March and ADrIl 199 The Constantin-Rao Construction for Binary As.pdf

DSN Progress Reporl 42.51 March and ADrIl 19?9 The Constantin-Rao Construction for Binary Asymmetric Error-Correcting Codes R. J. McEliece Consultant E. R. Rodemich CommunicationsSys!emsResearchSection sw.wplctc atlal.tfis of the si:c ()]” thcw sdcs. 1. Introduction Nhtsl kninvn clwwes of binory Crror.corrcctirlg cocks h:lvc Iwcn dcsiyrcd for usc on symnwtric ch:innels, i.e.. chonnels for which the error prob;lbilitit’s I ~ O snd O -+ I are cqu:il. IIowcvcr. in ccrlvin applications (e.g.. LSI memory protection (l{cf. I). optic:lt c~)lllttttltlic:llitn (Ref. 6)). tlw observed errors :Irc highly :Isynlnwtric. and the uppropriistc ch:lntwl model moy in f:wl Iw the Z-ckrnncl. in which the trwlsilion O - I is impossible. Of course any code cap:lble of correcl ing t errors ~m ii symnwtric clurntwl will also be cspable of correcting I Z.chantwl crrtm; but at present thtre i$ no entirely sotisf:w. ttlry tccllniquc for chxsling direclly with osymnwtric errors. Cotllp:lr; lblc wy to the llCl lGIppa const rwlion (Ref. 5) for symmetric errors, Recently. however. Constnntin 3nd Rno (l{cf. 1) guve 3n ingenious construction for 3 cksss d Ilinary C(UICS c;IpJIIle d correcting a single asymmetric error. Since ,mr orticlc is b:lscd on theirs, we Iwgin will) 3 akcriplion of lltc ~..R. COdCS. [cl 1’,, denote the set of bin3ry n.luplcs, and Iel G bt any ..\l)cli;lll grf~llil of ~wdcr // + I. \ve suppose the non7cru (S,,... , X,, ) e 1.,,. WY lIL’IIIIC PI 124 Since S“/(/t + 11 is WI Itppcr bowd on Ihc c;lr.lin:llily of :1 sillglc syln!llclric error.correcting code of lcnglh n. Ihc simple hound t)f Eq. (3) :Ilrcwly intlicntcs 111:1[sonwllling inlcrcsliny is :tfout$’ ;Ind onc n:llur;illy wishes 10 know more :IIMutt [Iw numlrcrs I I’,,(.c)I. As a SICP in this direction, Const:lntin und 1{:!0 Sll(nvcll 111:1[ I l“,,(o) I a I L’,,(N 1, :111g G G (-1) in clYWl [{q. (4) climin:ltcs thc need 10 consiilcr I’,,[c) for ,V* O. I lowwvcr. this is :N ~~r m (’onst:mtin ond Roo went: they were ttn:iblc