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Construction of Codes for Network Coding

Information Theory 2015-03-17 v1 math.IT

Abstract

Based on ideas of K\"otter and Kschischang we use constant dimension subspaces as codewords in a network. We show a connection to the theory of q-analogues of a combinatorial designs, which has been studied in Braun, Kerber and Laue as a purely combinatorial object. For the construction of network codes we successfully modified methods (construction with prescribed automorphisms) originally developed for the q-analogues of a combinatorial designs. We then give a special case of that method which allows the construction of network codes with a very large ambient space and we also show how to decode such codes with a very small number of operations.

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@article{arxiv.1005.2839,
  title  = {Construction of Codes for Network Coding},
  author = {Andreas-Stephan Elsenhans and Axel Kohnert and Alfred Wassermann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1005.2839},
  year   = {2015}
}
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