Marat V. Burnashev
Published 2006-12-06Version 1
A new approach for upper bounding the channel reliability function using the code spectrum is described. It allows to treat in a unified way both a low and a high rate cases. In particular, the earlier known upper bounds are improved, and a new derivation of the sphere-packing bound is presented.
Comments: 23 pages, to be published in Problems of Information Transmission
Journal: Problems of Information Transmission, vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 3-22, 2006
Code spectrum and reliability function: Gaussian channel
Supplement to: Code Spectrum and Reliability Function: Binary Symmetric Channel
Two-Bit Message Passing Decoders for LDPC Codes Over the Binary Symmetric Channel
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