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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX-RANDOM.2015.881
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-53426
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2015/5342/
Haeupler, Bernhard ;
Kamath, Pritish ;
Velingker, Ameya
Communication with Partial Noiseless Feedback
Abstract
We introduce the notion of one-way communication schemes with partial noiseless feedback. In this setting, Alice wishes to communicate a message to Bob by using a communication scheme that involves sending a sequence of bits over a channel while receiving feedback bits from Bob for delta fraction of the transmissions. An adversary is allowed to corrupt up to a constant fraction of Alice's transmissions, while the feedback is always uncorrupted. Motivated by questions related to coding for interactive communication, we seek to determine the maximum error rate, as a function of 0 <= delta <= 1, such that Alice can send a message to Bob via some protocol with delta fraction of noiseless feedback. The case delta = 1 corresponds to full feedback, in which the result of Berlekamp ['64] implies that the maximum tolerable error rate is 1/3, while the case delta = 0 corresponds to no feedback, in which the maximum tolerable error rate is 1/4, achievable by use of a binary error-correcting code.
In this work, we show that for any delta in (0,1] and gamma in [0, 1/3), there exists a randomized communication scheme with noiseless delta-feedback, such that the probability of miscommunication is low, as long as no more than a gamma fraction of the rounds are corrupted. Moreover, we show that for any delta in (0, 1] and gamma < f(delta), there exists a deterministic communication scheme with noiseless delta-feedback that always decodes correctly as long as no more than a gamma fraction of rounds are corrupted. Here f is a monotonically increasing, piecewise linear, continuous function with f(0) = 1/4 and f(1) = 1/3. Also, the rate of communication in both cases is constant (dependent on delta and gamma but independent of the input length).
BibTeX - Entry
@InProceedings{haeupler_et_al:LIPIcs:2015:5342,
author = {Bernhard Haeupler and Pritish Kamath and Ameya Velingker},
title = {{Communication with Partial Noiseless Feedback}},
booktitle = {Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2015)},
pages = {881--897},
series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-939897-89-7},
ISSN = {1868-8969},
year = {2015},
volume = {40},
editor = {Naveen Garg and Klaus Jansen and Anup Rao and Jos{\'e} D. P. Rolim},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2015/5342},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-53426},
doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX-RANDOM.2015.881},
annote = {Keywords: Communication with feedback, Interactive communication, Coding theory Digital}
}
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Communication with feedback, Interactive communication, Coding theory Digital |
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Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2015) |
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2015 |
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13.08.2015 |
