An Algebraic Approach to Physical-Layer Network Coding

Details An Algebraic Approach to Physical-Layer Network Coding An Algebraic Approach to Physical-Layer Network Coding

2010-05-15

arxiv.org/abs/1005.2646v1

Computer Science

Information Theory

5 pages, 3 figures, accepted to IEEE Int. Symp. Information Theory, 2010

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The problem of designing new physical-layer network coding (PNC) schemes via lattice partitions is considered. Building on a recent work by Nazer and Gastpar, who demonstrated its asymptotic gain using information-theoretic tools, we take an algebraic approach to show its potential in non-asymptotic settings. We first relate Nazer-Gastpar's approach to the fundamental theorem of finitely generated modules over a principle ideal domain. Based on this connection, we generalize their code construction and simplify their encoding and decoding methods. This not only provides a transparent understanding of their approach, but more importantly, it opens up the opportunity to design efficient and practical PNC schemes. Finally, we apply our framework for PNC to a Gaussian relay network and demonstrate its advantage over conventional PNC schemes.

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