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Constructions of Snake-in-the-Box Codes under $\ell_{\infty}$-metric for Rank Modulation

Information Theory 2016-01-22 v1 math.IT

Abstract

In the rank modulation scheme, Gray codes are very useful in the realization of flash memories. For a Gray code in this scheme, two adjacent codewords are obtained by using one "push-to-the-top" operation. Moreover, snake-in-the-box codes under the \ell_{\infty}-metric are Gray codes, which can be capable of detecting one \ell_{\infty}-error. In this paper, we give two constructions of \ell_{\infty}-snakes. On the one hand, inspired by Yehezkeally and Schwartz's construction, we present a new construction of the \ell_{\infty}-snake. The length of this \ell_{\infty}-snake is longer than the length of the \ell_{\infty}-snake constructed by Yehezkeally and Schwartz. On the other hand, we also give another construction of \ell_{\infty}-snakes by using K\mathcal{K}-snakes and obtain the longer \ell_{\infty}-snakes than the previously known ones.

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@article{arxiv.1601.05539,
  title  = {Constructions of Snake-in-the-Box Codes under $\ell_{\infty}$-metric for Rank Modulation},
  author = {Xiang Wang and Fang-Wei Fu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.05539},
  year   = {2016}
}