On the Existence of Cyclic Lattice Codes

Abstract

A coding lattice $Λ_c$ and a shaping lattice $Λ_s$ forms a nested lattice code $\mathcal{C}$ if $Λ_s \subseteq Λ_c$. Under some conditions, $\mathcal{C}$ is a finite cyclic group formed by rectangular encoding. This paper presents the conditions for the existence of such $\mathcal{C}$ and provides some designs. These designs correspond to solutions to linear Diophantine equations so that a cyclic lattice code $\mathcal C$ of arbitrary codebook size $M$ can possess group isomorphism, which is an essential property for a nested lattice code to be applied in physical layer network relaying techniques such as compute and forward.