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Problems on Two-Dimensional Synchronization Patterns

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A synchronization pattern is a sequence of dots in which the out-of-phase autocorrelation function takes the values zero or one. These patterns have numerous applications in information theory. Recently, two-dimensional synchronization patterns have found application in key predistribution for wireless sensor networks. This application has raised some new questions. We will discuss some of the old and new questions in this area. We will describe several solution techniques and present some open problems.

This research was supported in part by the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF), Jerusalem, Israel, under Grant 2006097.

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Etzion, T. (2009). Problems on Two-Dimensional Synchronization Patterns. In: Chee, Y.M., Li, C., Ling, S., Wang, H., Xing, C. (eds) Coding and Cryptology. IWCC 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5557. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01877-0_6

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