Title: Towards Coding for Maximum Errors in Interactive Communication
Speaker: Mark Braverman, Princeton University
Date: Wednesday, February 1, 2012 11:00-12:00pm
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ
Abstract:
We show that it is possible to encode any communication protocol between two parties so that the protocol succeeds even if a (1/4 - epsilon) fraction of all symbols transmitted by the parties are corrupted adversarially, at a cost of increasing the communication in the protocol by a constant factor (the constant depends on epsilon).This encoding uses a constant sized alphabet. This improves on an earlier result of Schulman, who showed how to recover when the fraction of errors is bounded by 1/240. We also show how to simulate an arbitrary protocol with a protocol using the binary alphabet, a constant factor increase in communication and tolerating a 1/8 - epsilon fraction of errors.
If time permits we will discuss recent effort in the direction of making the construction more efficient.
Joint work with Anup Rao.