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Combinatorial channels from partially ordered sets

Cullina, Daniel Francis

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Title
Combinatorial channels from partially ordered sets
Author(s)
Cullina, Daniel Francis
Issue Date
2016-11-28
Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
Kiyavash, Negar
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Kiyavash, Negar
Committee Member(s)
  • Barg, Alexander
  • Hajek, Bruce
  • Milenkovic, Olgica
  • Srikant, R.
Department of Study
Electrical & Computer Eng
Discipline
Electrical & Computer Engr
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
  • coding theory
  • combinatorics, partially ordered set
  • deletion errors
Abstract
A central task of coding theory is the design of schemes to reliably transmit data though space, via communication systems, or through time, via storage systems. Our goal is to identify and exploit structural properties common to a wide variety of coding problems, classical and modern, using the framework of partially ordered sets. We represent adversarial error models as combinatorial channels, form combinatorial channels from posets, identify a structural property of posets that leads to families of channels with the same codes, and bound the size of codes by optimizing over a family of equivalent channels. A large number of previously studied coding problems that fit into this framework. This leads to a new upper bound on the size of s-deletion correcting codes. We use a linear programming framework to obtain sphere-packing upper bounds when there is little underlying symmetry in the coding problem. Finally, we introduce and investigate a strong notion of poset homomorphism: locally bijective cover preserving maps. We look for maps of this type to and from the subsequence partial order on q-ary strings.
Graduation Semester
2016-12
Type of Resource
text
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Copyright 2016 Daniel Cullina

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