Publications [#386830] of Henry Pfister

Papers Published

1. Pfister, HD; Sprumont, O; Zémor, G, From Bit to Block: Decoding on Erasure Channels, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory Proceedings (January, 2025) [doi]
   (last updated on 2026/02/08)

   Abstract:
   We provide a general framework for bounding the block error threshold of a linear code C ⊆ F2^N over the erasure channel in terms of its bit error threshold. Our approach relies on understanding the minimum support weight of any r-dimensional subcode of C, for all small values of r. As a proof of concept, we use our machinery to obtain a new proof of the celebrated result that Reed-Muller codes achieve capacity on the erasure channel with respect to block error probability.