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A closed form formula of the partition weight enumerator of maximum distance separable (MDS) codes is derived for an arbitrary number of partitions. Using this result, some properties of MDS codes are discussed. The results are extended for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Mostafa El-Khamy , Robert J. McEliece

We propose reducible algebraic curves as a mechanism to construct Partial MDS (PMDS) codes geometrically. We obtain new general existence results, new explicit constructions and improved estimates on the smallest field sizes over which such…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Tristram Bogart , Anna-Lena Horlemann-Trautmann , David Karpuk , Alessandro Neri , Mauricio Velasco

This paper presents a novel coding scheme for distributed storage systems containing nodes with adversarial errors. The key challenge in such systems is the propagation of erroneous data from a single corrupted node to the rest of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-17 Natalia Silberstein , Ankit Singh Rawat , Sriram Vishwanath

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

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

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

In this paper, we propose locally repairable codes (LRCs) with optimal minimum distance for distributed storage systems (DSS). A two-layer encoding structure is employed to ensure data reconstruction and the designated repair locality. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-15 Hongmei Xie , Zhiyuan Yan

MDS self-dual codes have nice algebraic structures and are uniquely determined by lengths. Recently, the construction of MDS self-dual codes of new lengths has become an important and hot issue in coding theory. In this paper, we develop…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Ruhao Wan , Yang Li , Shixin Zhu

In modern storage technologies, symbol-pair codes have emerged as a crucial framework for addressing errors in channels where symbols are read in overlapping pairs to guard against pair errors. A symbol-pair code that meets the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Rongxing Qiu , Weijun Fang

Symbol-pair codes introduced by Cassuto and Blaum in 2010 are designed to protect against the pair errors in symbol-pair read channels. One of the central themes in symbol-error correction is the construction of maximal distance separable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Xiuxin Tang , Rong Luo

Recently, Yaakobi et al. introduced codes for $b$-symbol read channels, where the read operation is performed as a consecutive sequence of $b>2$ symbols. In this paper, we establish a Singleton-type bound on $b$-symbol codes. Codes meeting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-30 Baokun Ding , Tao Zhang , Gennian Ge

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

MDS codes have diverse practical applications in communication systems, data storage, and quantum codes due to their algebraic properties and optimal error-correcting capability. In this paper, we focus on a class of linear codes and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Yansheng Wu , Ziling Heng , Chengju Li , Cunsheng Ding

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

Products of MDS codes are of major practical importance; for a recent example, they are used in Data Availability Sampling (DAS) in blockchain networks such as Celestia and as part of the Ethereum roadmap. This motivates us to consider…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Amit Berman , Yaron Shany , Itzhak Tamo

In this paper, we consider the convertible codes with the maximum distance separable (MDS) property, which can adjust the code rate according to the failure rates of devices. We first extend the notion of convertible codes to allow initial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Songping Ge , Han Cai , Xiaohu Tang

The main conjecture on maximum distance separable (MDS) codes states that, execpt for some special cases, the maximum length of a q-ary linear MDS code is q+1. This conjecture does not hold true for near maximum distance separable codes…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-07-16 Massimo Giulietti

Quantum maximal-distance-separable (MDS) codes form an important class of quantum codes. To get $q$-ary quantum MDS codes, it suffices to find linear MDS codes $C$ over $\mathbb{F}_{q^2}$ satisfying $C^{\perp_H}\subseteq C$ by the Hermitian…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-12 Bocong Chen , San Ling , Guanghui Zhang

Symbol-pair codes are proposed to combat pair-errors in symbol-pair read channels. The minimum symbol-pair distance is of significance in determining the error-correcting capability of a symbol-pair code. Maximum distance separable (MDS)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Junru Ma , Jinquan Luo

In this paper, two classes of quantum MDS codes are constructed. The main tools are multiplicative structures on finite fields. Carefully choosing different cosets can make the corresponding generalized Reed-Solomon codes Hermitian…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Puyin Wang , Jinquan Luo