Computationally Efficient Codes for Strongly Dobrushin-Stambler Nonsymmetrizable Oblivious AVCs
Bikash Dey, IIT Bombay, India; Sidharth Jaggi, University of Bristol, United Kingdom; Michael Langberg, SUNY Buffalo, United States; Anand Sarwate, Rutgers University, United States; Yihan Zhang, IST Austria, Austria
Session:
Energy and Computational Efficiency
Track:
19: Communications and Networks
Location:
Lamda
Presentation Time:
Tue, 9 Jul, 16:25 - 16:45
Session Chair:
Sidharth Jaggi, University of Bristol
Abstract
We propose a concatenated code construction for a class of discrete-alphabet oblivious arbitrarily varying channels (AVCs) with cost constraints. The code has time and space complexity polynomial in the blocklength $n$. It uses a Reed-Solomon outer code, logarithmic blocklength random inner codes, and stochastic encoding by permuting the codeword before transmission. When the channel satisfies a condition called strong DS-nonsymmetrizability (a modified version of nonsymmetrizability originally due to Dobrushin and Stambler), we show that the code achieves a rate that for a variety of oblivious AVCs (such as classically studied error/erasure channels) match the known capacities.