Voronoi regions for binary linear block codes
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 1996

The Voronoi regions of a block code govern many aspects of the code's performance on a Gaussian channel, and they are fundamental instruments in, for example, error probability analysis and soft-decision decoding. The article presents an efficient method for finding the boundaries of the Voronoi regions for an arbitrary binary linear block code. Two theoretical results together lead to the Voronoi regions. First, it is shown that the question of the Voronoi neighborship can be reduced into testing a simpler relation, called the Gabriel neighborship. Second, a fast method of recognising Gabriel neighbors is proposed. These results are finally employed to describe the Voronoi regions for the Golay codes and several BCH codes, including Hamming codes.

error-control

Författare

Erik Agrell

Institutionen för informationsteori, Informationsteori

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

0018-9448 (ISSN) 1557-9654 (eISSN)

Vol. 42 1 310-316

Ämneskategorier

Data- och informationsvetenskap

DOI

10.1109/18.481810

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