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Testing Error Correcting Codes by Multicanonical Sampling of Rare Events

Yukito Iba and Koji Hukushima1

The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 4-6-7 Minami-Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-8569
1Department of Basic Science, University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8902

(Received April 10, 2008; Accepted July 24, 2008; Published September 25, 2008)

The idea of rare-event sampling by the multicanonical Monte Carlo is applied to the estimation of the performance of error correcting codes. The essence of the idea is importance sampling of the pattern of noise in the channel by the multicanonical Monte Carlo, which enables efficient estimation of the tails of the distribution of bit errors. The proposed method is successfully tested with a convolutional code. ©2008 The Physical Society of Japan

URL: http://jpsj.ipap.jp/link?JPSJ/77/103801/
DOI: 10.1143/JPSJ.77.103801


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