Title
Towards Optimal Deterministic Coding for Interactive Communication.
Abstract
We study efficient, deterministic interactive coding schemes that simulate any interactive protocol both under random and adversarial errors, and can achieve a constant communication rate independent of the protocol length. For channels that flip bits independently with probability ε < 1/2, our coding scheme achieves a communication rate of 1 - O([EQUATION]) and a failure probability of exp(−n/log n) in length n protocols. Prior to our work, all nontrivial deterministic schemes (either efficient or not) had a rate bounded away from 1. Furthermore, the best failure probability achievable by an efficient deterministic coding scheme with constant rate was only quasi-polynomial, i.e., of the form exp(−logO(1)n) (Braverman, ITCS 2012). For channels in which an adversary controls the noise pattern our coding scheme can tolerate Ω(1/log n) fraction of errors with rate approaching 1. Once more, all previously known nontrivial deterministic schemes (either efficient or not) in the adversarial setting had a rate bounded away from 1, and no nontrivial efficient deterministic coding schemes were known with any constant rate. Essential to both results is an explicit, efficiently encodable and decodable systematic tree code of length n that has relative distance Ω(1/log n) and rate approaching 1, defined over an O(log n)-bit alphabet. No nontrivial tree code (either efficient or not) was known to approach rate 1, and no nontrivial distance bound was known for any efficient constant rate tree code. The fact that our tree code is systematic, turns out to play an important role in obtaining rate 1 - O([EQUATION]) in the random error model, and approaching rate 1 in the adversarial error model.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.5555/2884435.2884570
SODA '16: Symposium on Discrete Algorithms Arlington Virginia January, 2016
Field
DocType
Volume
Binary logarithm,Random error,Discrete mathematics,Combinatorics,Communication channel,Coding (social sciences),Mathematics,Bounded function,Alphabet
Journal
22
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-61197-433-1
4
0.41
References 
Authors
8
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ran Gelles112915.20
Bernhard Haeupler262854.00
Gillat Kol317316.41
Noga Ron-Zewi4409.89
Avi Wigderson582051064.31