Efficient Systematic Deletions/Insertions of $0$'s Error Control Codes and the $L_{1}$ Metric (Extended version)

TL;DR

This paper develops efficient systematic codes for controlling deletions and insertions of zero symbols, leveraging $L_{1}$ metric error control, with recursive encoding and algebraic decoding methods.

Contribution

It introduces new systematic code constructions for zero-error control based on $L_{1}$ metric, with recursive encoding and algebraic decoding techniques.

Findings

Codes can correct multiple zero errors with length close to the information bits plus a logarithmic term.

Recursive encoding method achieves efficient systematic code design.

Decoding is efficiently performed using the Extended Euclidean Algorithm.

Abstract

This paper gives some theory and efficient design of binary block systematic codes capable of controlling the deletions of the symbol ``$0$'' (referred to as $0$-deletions) and/or the insertions of the symbol ``$0$'' (referred to as $0$-insertions). The problem of controlling $0$-deletions and/or $0$-insertions (referred to as $0$-errors) is known to be equivalent to the efficient design of $L_{1}$ metric asymmetric error control codes over the natural alphabet, $\mathbb{N}$. So, $t$ $0$-insertion correcting codes can actually correct $t$ $0$-errors, detect $(t+1)$ $0$-errors and, simultaneously, detect all occurrences of only $0$-deletions or only $0$-insertions in every received word (briefly, they are $t$-Symmetric $0$-Error Correcting/$(t+1)$-Symmetric $0$-Error Detecting/All Unidirectional $0$-Error Detecting ($t$-Sy$0$EC/$(t+1)$-Sy$0$ED/AU$0$ED) codes). From the relations with the $L_{1}$ distance, optimal systematic code designs are given. In general, for all $t,k\in\mathbb{N}$, a recursive method is presented to encode $k$ information bits into efficient systematic $t$-Sy$0$EC/$(t+1)$-Sy$0$ED/AU$0$ED codes of length $$ n\leq k+t\log_{2}k+o(t\log n) $$ as $n\in\mathbb{N}$ increases. Decoding can be efficiently performed by algebraic means using the Extended Euclidean Algorithm (EEA).