On Streaming Codes for Simultaneously Correcting Burst and Random Erasures

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Auteurs principaux: Bhatnagar, Shobhit, Chakraborty, Biswadip, Kumar, P. Vijay
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author Bhatnagar, Shobhit
Chakraborty, Biswadip
Kumar, P. Vijay
author_facet Bhatnagar, Shobhit
Chakraborty, Biswadip
Kumar, P. Vijay
contents Streaming codes are packet-level codes that recover dropped packets within a strict decoding-delay constraint. We study streaming codes over a sliding-window (SW) channel model which admits only those erasure patterns which allow either a single burst erasure of $\le b$ packets along with $\le e$ random packet erasures, or else, $\le a$ random packet erasures, in any sliding-window of $w$ time slots. We determine the optimal rate of a streaming code constructed via the popular diagonal embedding (DE) technique over such a SW channel under delay constraint $τ=(w-1)$ and provide an $O(w)$ field size code construction. For the case $e>1$, we show that it is not possible to significantly reduce this field size requirement, assuming the well-known MDS conjecture. We then provide a block code construction whose DE yields a streaming code achieving the rate derived above, over a field of size sub-linear in $w,$ for a family of parameters having $e=1.$ We show the field size optimality of this construction for some parameters, and near-optimality for others under a sparsity constraint. Additionally, we derive an upper-bound on the $d_{\text{min}}$ of a cyclic code and characterize cyclic codes which achieve this bound via their ability to simultaneously recover from burst and random erasures.
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spellingShingle On Streaming Codes for Simultaneously Correcting Burst and Random Erasures
Bhatnagar, Shobhit
Chakraborty, Biswadip
Kumar, P. Vijay
Information Theory
Streaming codes are packet-level codes that recover dropped packets within a strict decoding-delay constraint. We study streaming codes over a sliding-window (SW) channel model which admits only those erasure patterns which allow either a single burst erasure of $\le b$ packets along with $\le e$ random packet erasures, or else, $\le a$ random packet erasures, in any sliding-window of $w$ time slots. We determine the optimal rate of a streaming code constructed via the popular diagonal embedding (DE) technique over such a SW channel under delay constraint $τ=(w-1)$ and provide an $O(w)$ field size code construction. For the case $e>1$, we show that it is not possible to significantly reduce this field size requirement, assuming the well-known MDS conjecture. We then provide a block code construction whose DE yields a streaming code achieving the rate derived above, over a field of size sub-linear in $w,$ for a family of parameters having $e=1.$ We show the field size optimality of this construction for some parameters, and near-optimality for others under a sparsity constraint. Additionally, we derive an upper-bound on the $d_{\text{min}}$ of a cyclic code and characterize cyclic codes which achieve this bound via their ability to simultaneously recover from burst and random erasures.
title On Streaming Codes for Simultaneously Correcting Burst and Random Erasures
topic Information Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.06621