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Quasi-cyclic (QC) low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes are a class of LDPC codes with a simple construction facilitating hardware implementation while achieving excellent performance. In this paper, we introduce an algorithm that…

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We show an interesting PBD-closure result for the set of lengths of constant-composition codes whose distance and size meet certain conditions. A consequence of this PBD-closure result is that the size of optimal constant-composition codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-12-18 Yeow Meng Chee , Alan C. H. Ling , San Ling , Hao Shen

Constructions of optimal locally repairable codes (LRCs) in the case of $(r+1) \nmid n$ and over small finite fields were stated as open problems for LRCs in [I. Tamo \emph{et al.}, "Optimal locally repairable codes and connections to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-21 Toni Ernvall , Thomas Westerbäck , Camilla Hollanti

A distribution matcher (DM) encodes a binary input data sequence into a sequence of symbols (codeword) with desired target probability distribution. The set of the output codewords constitutes a codebook (or code) of a DM.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Marcin Pikus , Wen Xu

Constructing quantum LDPC codes with a minimum distance that grows faster than a square root of the length has been a major challenge of the field. With this challenge in mind, we investigate constructions that come from high-dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-20 Shai Evra , Tali Kaufman , Gilles Zémor

Subspace codes, and in particular cyclic subspace codes, have gained significant attention in recent years due to their applications in error correction for random network coding. In this paper, we introduce a new technique for constructing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Chiara Castello , Paolo Santonastaso

Locally repairable codes (LRCs) have received significant recent attention as a method of designing data storage systems robust to server failure. Optimal LRCs offer the ideal trade-off between minimum distance and locality, a measure of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Allison Beemer , Ryan Coatney , Venkatesan Guruswami , Hiram H. López , Fernando Piñero

We generalize upper bounds for constant dimension codes containing a lifted maximum rank distance code first studied by Etzion and Silberstein. The proof allows to construct several improved codes.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-01-16 Daniel Heinlein

The construction of quantum error-correcting codes (QECCs) with good parameters is a hot topic in the area of quantum information and quantum computing. Quantum maximum distance separable (QMDS) codes are optimal because the minimum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-18 Shanqi Pang , Mengqian Chen , Rong Yan , Yan Zhu

We consider the problem of describing the typical (possibly) non-linear code of minimum distance bounded from below over a large alphabet. We concentrate on block codes with the Hamming metric and on subspace codes with the injection…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Anina Gruica , Alberto Ravagnani

We examine an error-correcting coding framework in which each coded symbol is constrained to be a function of a fixed subset of the message symbols. With an eye toward distributed storage applications, we seek to design systematic codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-23 Wael Halbawi , Matthew Thill , Babak Hassibi

We extend earlier work on the design of convolutional code-specific CRC codes to $Q$-ary alphabets, with an eye toward $Q$-ary orthogonal signaling. Starting with distance-spectrum optimal, zero-terminated, $Q$-ary convolutional codes, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Jacob King , William Ryan , Richard D. Wesel

In this paper, we prove existence of optimal complementary dual codes (LCD codes) over large finite fields. We also give methods to generate orthogonal matrices over finite fields and then apply them to construct LCD codes. Construction…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-14 Lin Sok , Minjia Shi , Patrick Solé

We construct $3$-query relaxed locally decodable codes (RLDCs) with constant alphabet size and length $\tilde{O}(k^2)$ for $k$-bit messages. Combined with the lower bound of $\tilde{\Omega}(k^3)$ of [Alrabiah, Guruswami, Kothari, Manohar,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Tom Gur , Dor Minzer , Guy Weissenberg , Kai Zhe Zheng

In this paper, we investigate novel strategies for generating rate-compatible (RC) irregular low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes with short/moderate block lengths. We propose three puncturing and two extension schemes, which are designed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-22 J. Liu , R. C. de Lamare

Multiply constant-weight codes (MCWCs) have been recently studied to improve the reliability of certain physically unclonable function response. In this paper, we give combinatorial constructions for MCWCs which yield several new infinite…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-11 Yeow Meng Chee , Han Mao Kiah , Hui Zhang , Xiande Zhang

This paper provides new constructions and lower bounds for subspace codes, using Ferrers diagram rank-metric codes from matchings of the complete graph and pending blocks. We present different constructions for constant dimension codes with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-08 Natalia Silberstein , Anna-Lena Trautmann

Recent studies have delved into the construction of locally repairable codes (LRCs) with optimal minimum distance from function fields. In this paper, we present several novel constructions by extending the findings of optimally designed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Yunlong Zhu , Chang-An Zhao

We define a class of automorphisms of rational function fields of finite characteristic and employ these to construct different types of optimal linear rank-metric codes. The first construction is of generalized Gabidulin codes over…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Rakhi Pratihar , Tovohery Hajatiana Randrianarisoa

Recent works showed how low-density parity-check (LDPC) erasure correcting codes, under maximum likelihood (ML) decoding, are capable of tightly approaching the performance of an ideal maximum-distance-separable code on the binary erasure…

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