Visible to the public Set Reconciliation for Blockchains with Slepian-Wolf Coding: Deletion Polar Codes

TitleSet Reconciliation for Blockchains with Slepian-Wolf Coding: Deletion Polar Codes
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2021
AuthorsLiu, Ling, Zhang, Shengli, Ling, Cong
Conference Name2021 13th International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP)
Keywordsblockchains, Complexity theory, data deletion, encoding, privacy, pubcrawl, Scalability, Signal processing, Signal processing algorithms, Upper bound, Wireless communication
AbstractIn this paper, we propose a polar coding based scheme for set reconciliation between two network nodes. The system is modeled as a well-known Slepian-Wolf setting induced by a fixed number of deletions. The set reconciliation process is divided into two phases: 1) a deletion polar code is employed to help one node to identify the possible deletion indices, which may be larger than the number of genuine deletions; 2) a lossless compression polar code is then designed to feedback those indices with minimum overhead. Our scheme can be viewed as a generalization of polar codes to some emerging network-based applications such as the package synchronization in blockchains. The total overhead is linear to the number of packages, and immune to the package size.
DOI10.1109/WCSP52459.2021.9613501
Citation Keyliu_set_2021