Title :
Improved error bounds for the erasure/list scheme: the binary and spherical cases
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
Abstract :
We derive improved bounds on the error and erasure rate for spherical codes and for binary linear codes under Forney´s erasure/list decoding scheme and prove some related results.
Keywords :
Hamming codes; binary codes; decoding; error statistics; linear codes; Forney´s erasure-list decoding scheme; binary linear code; distance distribution; erasure rate; error bound; error exponent; error rate; spherical code; Algebra; Computer aided software engineering; Error analysis; Error probability; Gaussian channels; Information theory; Iterative decoding; Linear code; Maximum likelihood decoding; Turbo codes; Distance distribution; erasure/list decoding; error exponent; spherical codes;
Journal_Title :
Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TIT.2004.834753
