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Both maximum distance separable (MDS) codes that are not equivalent to generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) codes (non-GRS MDS codes) and near MDS (NMDS) codes have nice applications in communication and storage systems. In this paper, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Yang Li , Zhonghua Sun , Shixin Zhu

Maximum-distance separable (MDS) convolutional codes form an optimal family of convolutional codes, the study of which is of great importance. There are very few general algebraic constructions of MDS convolutional codes. In this paper, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-24 Chin Hei Chan , Maosheng Xiong

Partial maximum distance separable (PMDS) codes are a kind of erasure codes where the nodes are divided into multiple groups with each forming an MDS code with a smaller code length, thus they allow repairing a failed node with only a few…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Jie Li , Xiaohu Tang , Hanxu Hou , Yunghsiang S. Han , Bo Bai , Gong Zhang

A linear code with parameters $[n, k, n-k+1]$ is called a maximum distance separable (MDS for short) code. A linear code with parameters $[n, k, n-k]$ is said to be almost maximum distance separable (AMDS for short). A linear code is said…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Zhonghua Sun , Cunsheng Ding

Recently, error correcting codes in the erasure channel have drawn great attention for various applications such as distributed storage systems and wireless sensor networks, but many of their decoding algorithms are not practical because…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Chanki Kim , Jong-Seon No

Linear complementary dual (LCD) maximum distance separable (MDS) codes are constructed to given specifications. For given $n$ and $r<n$, with $n$ or $r$ (or both) odd, MDS LCD $(n,r)$ codes are constructed over finite fields whose…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Ted Hurley

Consider a binary maximum distance separable (MDS) array code composed of an $m\times (k+r)$ array of bits with $k$ information columns and $r$ parity columns, such that any $k$ out of $k+r$ columns suffice to reconstruct the $k$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Hanxu Hou , Patrick P. C. Lee

The high repair cost of (n,k) Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) erasure codes has recently motivated a new class of codes, called Regenerating Codes, that optimally trade off storage cost for repair bandwidth. In this paper, we address…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-04-28 Changho Suh , Kannan Ramchandran

Maximum distance separable (MDS) and almost maximum distance separable (AMDS) codes have been widely used in various fields such as communication systems, data storage, and quantum codes because of their algebraic properties and excellent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Meiying Zhang , Shudi Yang , Yanbin Zheng

We construct constant-sized ensembles of linear error-correcting codes over any fixed alphabet that can correct a given fraction of adversarial erasures at rates approaching the Singleton bound arbitrarily closely. We provide several…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Yeyuan Chen , Mahdi Cheraghchi , Nikhil Shagrithaya

Accessing the data in the failed disk (degraded read) with low latency is crucial for an erasure-coded storage system. In this work, the maximum distance separable (MDS) array code with the property of degraded-read friendly (DRF) is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Ting-Yi Wu , Yunghsiang S. Han , Zhengrui Li , Bo Bai , Gong Zhang , Liang Chen , Xiang Wu

Self-dual maximum distance separable codes (self-dual MDS codes) and self-dual near MDS codes are very important in coding theory and practice. Thus, it is interesting to construct self-dual MDS or self-dual near MDS codes. In this paper,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Daitao Huang , Qin Yue , Yongfeng Niu , Xia Li

A linear code with parameters $[n,k,n-k]$ is said to be almost maximum distance separable (AMDS for short). An AMDS code whose dual is also AMDS is referred to as an near maximum distance separable (NMDS for short) code. NMDS codes have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Xiaoru Li , Ziling Heng

The singleton defect of an $[n,k,d]$ linear code ${\cal C}$ is defined as $s({\cal C})=n-k+1-d$. Codes with $S({\cal C})=0$ are called maximum distance separable (MDS) codes, and codes with $S(\cal C)=S(\cal C ^{\bot})=1$ are called near…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Li Xu , Cuiling Fan , Dongchun Han

Maximum distance separable (MDS) codes are widely used in distributed storage systems as they provide optimal fault tolerance for a given amount of storage overhead. The seminal work of Dimakis~\emph{et al.} first established a lower bound…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Zihao Zhang , Guodong Li , Sihuang Hu

Symbol-pair code is a new coding framework which is proposed to correct errors in the symbol-pair read channel. In particular, maximum distance separable (MDS) symbol-pair codes are a kind of symbol-pair codes with the best possible…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-10 Shuxing Li , Gennian Ge

Maximum distance separable (MDS) codes are optimal in the sense that the minimum distance cannot be improved for a given length and code size. The most prominent MDS codes are generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) codes. The square…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Hongwei Liu , Shengwei Liu

A linear code with parameters of the form $[n, k, n-k+1]$ is referred to as an MDS (maximum distance separable) code. A linear code with parameters of the form $[n, k, n-k]$ is said to be almost MDS (i.e., almost maximum distance separable)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Qiuyan Wang , Ziling Heng

Maximum distance separable convolutional codes are the codes that present best performance in error correction among all convolutional codes with certain rate and degree. In this paper, we show that taking the constant matrix coefficients…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Julia Lieb , Raquel Pinto

In the last decade there has been a great interest in extending results for codes equipped with the Hamming metric to analogous results for codes endowed with the rank metric. This work follows this thread of research and studies the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Paulo Almeida , Umberto Martínez-Penas , Diego Napp