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Paper IDM.5.4
Paper Title Coding for Sequence Reconstruction for Single Edits
Authors Han Mao Kiah, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Tuan Thanh Nguyen, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore; Eitan Yaakobi, Technion, Israel
Session M.5: Coding for Storage and Memories I
Presentation Lecture
Track Coding for Storage and Memories
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Abstract The sequence reconstruction problem, introduced by Levenshtein in 2001, considers a communication scenario where the sender transmits a codeword from some codebook and the receiver obtains multiple noisy reads of the codeword. The common setup assumes the codebook to be the entire space and the problem is to determine the minimum number of distinct reads that is required to reconstruct the transmitted codeword. Motivated by modern storage devices, we study a variant of the problem where the number of noisy reads $N$ is fixed. Specifically, we design {\em reconstruction codes} that reconstruct a codeword from $N$ distinct noisy reads. We focus on channels that introduce single edit error (i.e. a single substitution, insertion, or deletion) and their variants, and design reconstruction codes for all values of $N$. In particular, for the case of a single edit, we show that as the number of noisy reads increases, the number of redundant bits required can be gracefully reduced from $\log n+O(1)$ to $\log \log n+O(1)$, and then to $O(1)$, where $n$ denotes the length of a codeword. We also show that the redundancy of certain reconstruction codes is within one bit of optimality.

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IEEE ISIT 2021

2021 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory

11-16 July 2021 | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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