| TR#: | CS0866 |
| Class: | CS |
| Title: | ON THE DECODING
DELAY OF ENCODERS FOR INPUT-CONSTRAINED CHANNELS. |
| Authors: | J.J. Ashley, B.H. Marcus and R.M. Roth |
| Not Available | |
| Abstract: | Finite-state encoders that encode $n$-ary data into a constrained system $S$ are considered. The anticipation, or decoding delay, of such an $(S,n)$-encoder is the number of symbols that a state-dependent decoder needs to look ahead in order to recover the current input symbol. Upper bounds are obtained on the smallest attainable number of states of any $(S,n)$-encoder with anticipation $t$. Those bounds can be explicitly computed from $t$ and $S$, which implies that the problem of checking whether there is an $(S,n)$-encoder with anticipation $t$ is decidable. It is also shown that if there is an $(S,n)$-encoder with anticipation $t$, then a version of the state-splitting algorithm can be applied to produce an $(S,n)$ encoder with anticipation at most $2t-1$. We also observe that the problem of checking whether there is an $(S,n)$-encoder having a sliding-block decoder with a given memory and anticipation is decidable. |
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