• DocumentCode
    3505701
  • Title

    On the treewidth of MDS and Reed-Muller codes

  • Author

    Kashyap, Navin ; Thangaraj, Andrew

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Commun. Eng., Indian Inst. of Sci., Bangalore, India
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    July 31 2011-Aug. 5 2011
  • Firstpage
    1925
  • Lastpage
    1929
  • Abstract
    The treewidth of a linear code is the least constraint complexity of any of its cycle-free graphical realizations. This notion provides a useful parametrization of the maximum-likelihood decoding complexity for linear codes. In this paper, we compute exact expressions for the treewidth of maximum distance separable codes, and first- and second-order Reed-Muller codes. These results constitute the only known explicit expressions for the treewidth of algebraic codes.
  • Keywords
    Reed-Muller codes; algebraic codes; maximum likelihood decoding; tree codes; MDS; Reed Muller codes; cycle free graphical realizations; least constraint complexity; linear codes; maximum distance separable codes; maximum likelihood decoding complexity; treewidth; Complexity theory; Hamming weight; Indexes; Linear code; Maximum likelihood decoding; Minimization; Particle separators;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Theory Proceedings (ISIT), 2011 IEEE International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    St. Petersburg
  • ISSN
    2157-8095
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0596-0
  • Electronic_ISBN
    2157-8095
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISIT.2011.6033887
  • Filename
    6033887