Application of DAC Codeword Spectrum: Expansion Factor
Yong Fang

TL;DR
This paper investigates the properties of DAC codeword spectra, introduces the expansion factor to measure decoding path growth, and proves exponential increase in decoding paths with convergence to 2q for certain symbol mappings.
Contribution
The paper introduces the expansion factor concept and establishes its relation to DAC codeword spectra, revealing exponential growth of decoding paths during DAC decoding.
Findings
Number of decoding paths increases exponentially during DAC decoding.
Expansion factor converges to 2q for specific symbol interval mappings.
DAC codeword spectrum analysis aids understanding of decoding complexity.
Abstract
Distributed Arithmetic Coding (DAC) proves to be an effective implementation of Slepian-Wolf Coding (SWC), especially for short data blocks. To study the property of DAC codewords, the author has proposed the concept of DAC codeword spectrum. For equiprobable binary sources, the problem was formatted as solving a system of functional equations. Then, to calculate DAC codeword spectrum in general cases, three approximation methods have been proposed. In this paper, the author makes use of DAC codeword spectrum as a tool to answer an important question: how many (including proper and wrong) paths will be created during the DAC decoding, if no path is pruned? The author introduces the concept of another kind of DAC codeword spectrum, i.e. time spectrum, while the originally-proposed DAC codeword spectrum is called path spectrum from now on. To measure how fast the number of decoding paths…
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Taxonomy
TopicsChaos-based Image/Signal Encryption · Wireless Communication Security Techniques · Cellular Automata and Applications
