• DocumentCode
    969418
  • Title

    Maximum likelihood decoding of the Leech lattice

  • Author

    Vardy, Alexander ; Be´ery, Y.

  • Author_Institution
    IBM Almaden Res. Center, San Jose, CA, USA
  • Volume
    39
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    1993
  • fDate
    7/1/1993 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1435
  • Lastpage
    1444
  • Abstract
    An algorithm for maximum likelihood decoding of the Leech lattice is presented. The algorithm involves projecting the points of the Leech lattice directly onto the codewords of the (6,3,4) quaternary code-the hexacode. Projection on the hexacode induces a partition of the Leech lattice into four cosets of a certain sublattice 24. Such a partition into cosets enables maximum likelihood decoding of the Leech lattice with 3595 real operations in the worst case and only 2955 operations on the average. This is about half the worst case and the average complexity of the best previously known algorithm
  • Keywords
    decoding; lattice theory and statistics; maximum likelihood estimation; (6,3,4) quaternary code; Leech lattice; binary Golay code; cosets; hexacode; lattice partitions; maximum likelihood decoding; AWGN channels; Arithmetic; Computational geometry; Constellation diagram; Gain; Lattices; Maximum likelihood decoding; Out of order; Partitioning algorithms; Random access memory;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9448
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/18.243466
  • Filename
    243466