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Some bounds on the size of codes

Information Theory 2016-11-18 v2 Discrete Mathematics Combinatorics math.IT

Abstract

We present some upper bounds on the size of non-linear codes and their restriction to systematic codes and linear codes. These bounds are independent of other known theoretical bounds, e.g. the Griesmer bound, the Johnson bound or the Plotkin bound, and one of these is actually an improvement of a bound by Litsyn and Laihonen. Our experiments show that in some cases (the majority of cases for some q) our bounds provide the best value, compared to all other theoretical bounds.

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@article{arxiv.1206.6006,
  title  = {Some bounds on the size of codes},
  author = {Emanuele Bellini and Eleonora Guerrini and Massimiliano Sala},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.6006},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

This paper had two old titles: "A bound on the size of linear codes and systematic codes", "A bound on the size of linear codes" (arXiv:0902.1634)

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