Type: Article
Publication Date: 2005-01-01
Citations: 273
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/sfcs.2005.5464411
Suppose we wish to transmit a vector f ϵ R <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">n</sup> reliably. A frequently discussed approach consists in encoding f with an m by n coding matrix A. Assume now that a fraction of the entries of Af are corrupted in a completely arbitrary fashion by an error e. We do not know which entries are affected nor do we know how they are affected. Is it possible to recover f exactly from the corrupted m-dimensional vector y = Af + e?