Title
Statistical mechanics of error exponents for error-correcting codes.
Abstract
Error exponents characterize the exponential decay, when increasing message length, of the probability of error of many error-correcting codes. To tackle the long-standing problem of computing them exactly, we introduce a general, thermodynamic, formalism that we illustrate with maximum-likelihood decoding of low-density parity-check codes on the binary erasure channel and the binary symmetric channel. In this formalism, we apply the cavity method for large deviations to derive expressions for both the average and typical error exponents, which differ by the procedure used to select the codes from specified ensembles. When decreasing the noise intensity, we find that two phase transitions take place, at two different levels: a glass to ferromagnetic transition in the space of codewords and a paramagnetic to glass transition in the space of codes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1103/PhysRevE.74.056110
PHYSICAL REVIEW E
Keywords
DocType
Volume
binary erasure channel,glass transition,binary symmetric channel,error exponent,phase transition,error correction code,exponential decay,probability of error
Journal
74
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
5
1539-3755
6
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.59
11
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Thierry Mora160.93
Olivier Rivoire2393.82