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Sobre el parámetro complejidad lineal y los filtros no lineales de segundo orden
Amparo FÚSTER SABATER and Luis J. GARCÍA VILLALBA
Departamento de Tratamiento de la Información y Codificación
Instituto de Física Aplicada (CSIC)
Serrano 114
28006 Madrid — Spain

Received: January 18, 1999
Revised: July 1, 1999

ABSTRACT

A new method of analyzing the linear complexity of 2nd order nonlinear filterings of m  -sequences that is based on the concept of regular coset is presented. The procedure considers any value of the LFSR’s length, L  (prime or composite number). Emphasis is on the geometric interpretation of the regular cosets which produce degeneracies in the linear complexity of the filtered sequence. Numerical expressions to compute the linear complexity of such sequences are given as well as practical rules to design 2nd order nonlinear filterings which preserve the maximal linear complexity are stated.

1991 Mathematics Subject Classification: 11K45, 94A55.