Codigos esfericos em toros planares / Spherical codes on flat torus
AUTOR(ES)
Cristiano Torezzan
FONTE
IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
21/07/2009
RESUMO
Spherical codes in Euclidean spaces are finite sets of points on the surface of a multidimensional sphere and have been widely studied in connection with the signal transmission over a Gaussian channel. For this purpose one fundamental issue is to maximize the minimum distance between two code points, what is strongly related to the more general problem of sphere packing. In the first part of this work we study spherical codes generated as orbit of a initial vector under the action of a commutative group of orthogonal matrices, the so called commutative group codes. A method for searching the best n-dimensional commutative group code of order M is presented. Based on the well known Hermite and Smith normal form decomposition of matrices, and also on the relation between 2k-dimensional com- mutative group codes and k-dimensional lattices, we show that it is possible to reduce the number of cases to be analyzed through the identification of isometric codes which can be discarded. The initial vector problem for these codes is formally established as a linear programming problem and used as a sub-routine of the method. Numerical results are presented, including tables of good commutative groups codes in several dimensions. Other contribution of this work is a new class of spherical codes, constructed by placing points on flat tori layers. The codebook on each torus can be generated by a commutative group of orthogonal matrices, using the results previously mentioned. Upper and lower bounds on performance are derived and a systematic method for constructing the codes is presented. Some examples are constructed and the results exhibit good performance when compared to the best known structured spherical codes, with some advantage in the encoding/decoding process, due to the homogeneity, group structure and the relation with lattices in the half of the dimension
ASSUNTO(S)
empacotamento de esferas teoria da codificação teoria dos reticulados geometria discreta grupos abelianos otimização sphere packings codification theory lattice theory discrete geometry abelian groups optimization
