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New properties of $q$-ary cyclotomic cosets modulo $n = q^{m} - 1$, where $q \geq 3$ is a prime power, are investigated in this paper. Based on these properties, the dimension as well as bounds for the designed distance of some families of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-01 Giuliano Gadioli La Guardia , Marcelo Muniz Silva Alves

Generalized quasi-cyclic (GQC) codes form a natural generalization of quasi-cyclic (QC) codes. They are viewed here as mixed alphabet codes over a family of ring alphabets. Decomposing these rings into local rings by the Chinese Remainder…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-02 Cem Güneri , Ferruh Özbudak , Buket Özkaya , Elif Saçıkara , Zahra Sepasdar , Patrick Solé

We define a pseudo quasi-3 design as a symmetric design with the property that the derived and residual designs with respect to at least one block are quasi-symmetric. Quasi-symmetric designs can be used to construct optimal self…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-04-11 Carl Bracken

Cyclic codes, as a crucial subclass of linear codes, exhibit broad applications in communication systems, data storage systems, and consumer electronics, primarily attributed to their well-structured algebraic properties. Let $p$ denote an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Mengen Fang , Lanqiang Li , Fuyin Tian , Li Liu

Locally repairable codes(LRCs) play important roles in distributed storage systems(DSS). LRCs with small locality have their own advantages since fewer available symbols are needed in the recovery of erased symbols. In this paper, we prove…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Yuan Gao , Siman Yang

The main result here is a characterisation of binary $2$-neighbour-transitive codes with minimum distance at least $5$ via their minimal subcodes, which are found to be generated by certain designs. The motivation for studying this class of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-27 Daniel R. Hawtin , Cheryl E. Praeger

MDS self-dual codes have good algebraic structure, and their parameters are completely determined by the code length. In recent years, the construction of MDS Euclidean self-dual codes with new lengths has become an important issue in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Weirong Meng , Weijun Fang , Fang-Wei Fu , Haiyan Zhou , Ziyi Gu

As storage systems grow in size, device failures happen more frequently than ever before. Given the commodity nature of hard drives employed, a storage system needs to tolerate a certain number of disk failures while maintaining data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-20 Yan Wang , Xunrui Yin , Xin Wang

Maximum distance separable (MDS) array codes constitute an important class of error-correcting codes due to their optimal distance properties and their relevance in distributed storage systems. In this paper, we investigate the construction…

Reed-Solomon codes, a type of BCH codes, are widely employed in communication systems, storage devices and consumer electronics. This fact demonstrates the importance of BCH codes -- a family of cyclic codes -- in practice. In theory, BCH…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-24 Cunsheng Ding , Cuiling Fan , Zhengchun Zhou

Quantum error correction (QEC) is critical for practical realization of fault-tolerant quantum computing, and recently proposed families of quantum low-density parity-check (QLDPC) code are prime candidates for advanced QEC hardware…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Nithin Raveendran , David Declercq , Bane Vasić

Recently, Roth and Skachek proposed two methods for constructing nearly maximum-distance separable (MDS) expander codes. We show that through the simple modification of using mixed-alphabet codes derived from MDS codes as constituent codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-08-09 Marc A. Armand , Jianwen Zhang

This paper presents a construction for high-rate MDS codes that enable bandwidth-efficient repair of a single node. Such MDS codes are also referred to as the minimum storage regenerating (MSR) codes in the distributed storage literature.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-26 Ankit Singh Rawat , O. Ozan Koyluoglu , Sriram Vishwanath

Generalized Bicycle (GB) codes offer a compelling alternative to surface codes for quantum error correction. This paper focuses on (2,2)-Generalized Bicycle codes, constructed from pairs of binary circulant matrices with two non-zero…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-30 François Arnault , Philippe Gaborit , Nicolas Saussay

Let $p$ be an odd prime and $r,s,m$ be positive integers. In this study, we initiate our exploration by delving into the intricate structure of all repeated-root cyclic codes and their duals with a length of $2^rp^s$ over the finite field…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Lanqiang Li , Ziwen Cao , Tingting Wu , Li Liu

In this paper we introduce a novel MDS array code with lowest density. In contrast to existing codes, this one has no restrictions on the size or the number of erasures it can correct. It is based on a simple matrix construction involving…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-07 Magnus Sandell , Filippo Tosato

Generalized Reed-Solomon codes form the most prominent class of maximum distance separable (MDS) codes, codes that are optimal in the sense that their minimum distance cannot be improved for a given length and code size. The study of codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Shengwei Liu , Hongwei Liu , Frederique Oggier

This paper presents a combinatorial construction of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes from difference covering arrays. While the original construction by Gallagher was by randomly allocating bits in a sparse parity-check matrix, over…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-01-23 D. Donovan , A. Rao , E. Şule Yazıcı

A locally recoverable code of locality $r$ over $\mathbb{F}_{q}$ is a code where every coordinate of a codeword can be recovered using the values of at most $r$ other coordinates of that codeword. Locally recoverable codes are efficient at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Gustavo Terra Bastos , Angelynn Alvarez , Zachary Flores , Adriana Salerno

The high-density data storage technology aims to design high-capacity storage at a relatively low cost. In order to achieve this goal, symbol-pair codes were proposed by Cassuto and Blaum \cite{CB10,CB11} to handle channels that output…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Xiaoqiang Wang , Yue Su , Dabin Zheng , Wei Lu