Systematic Single-Deletion Multiple-Substitution Correcting Codes

Abstract: Recent work by Smagloy et al. (ISIT 2020) shows that the redundancy of a single-deletion $s$-substitution correcting code is asymptotically at least $(s+1)\log n+o(\log n)$, where $n$ is the length of the codes. They also provide a construction of single-deletion and single-substitution codes with redundancy $6\log n+8$. In this paper, we propose a family of systematic single-deletion $s$-substitution correcting codes of length $n$ with asymptotical redundancy at most $(3s+4)\log n+o(\log n)$ and polynomial encoding/decoding complexity, where $s\geq 2$ is a constant. Specifically, the encoding and decoding complexity of the proposed codes are $O(n<sup>{s+3})$ and $O(n<sup>{s+2})$, respectively.