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It is an important task to construct quantum maximum-distance-separable (MDS) codes with good parameters. In the present paper, we provide six new classes of q-ary quantum MDS codes by using generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) codes and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Weijun Fang , Fang-Wei Fu

We present new bounds on the existence of general quantum maximum distance separable codes (QMDS): the length $n$ of all QMDS codes with local dimension $D$ and distance $d \geq 3$ is bounded by $n \leq D^2 + d - 2$. We obtain their weight…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Felix Huber , Markus Grassl

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

Maximum distance separable (MDS) are constructed to required specifications. The codes are explicitly given over finite fields with efficient encoding and decoding algorithms. Series of such codes over finite fields with ratio of distance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Ted Hurley , Donny Hurley , Barry Hurley

Let $p$ be a prime and let $q$ be a power of $p$. In this paper, by using generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS for short) codes and extended GRS codes, we construct two new classes of quantum maximum-distance- separable (MDS) codes with parameters…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Weijun Fang , Fang-Wei Fu

Maximum distance separable (in short, MDS), near MDS (in short, NMDS), and self-orthogonal codes play a pivotal role in algebraic coding theory, particularly in applications such as quantum communications and secret sharing scheme.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Zhonghao Liang , Chenlu Jia , Dongmei Huang , Qunying Liao , Chunming Tang

Let $\mathbb{F}_q$ be a finite field with $q=p^{e}$ elements, where $p$ is a prime number and $e \geq 1$ is an integer. In this paper, by means of generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) codes, we construct two new classes of quantum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Hualu Liu , Xiusheng Liu

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

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

This paper contributes to maximum distance separable (MDS) and near MDS (NMDS) properties of the extended generalized twisted Reed-Solomon (TGRS) codes. Firstly, a family of extended TGRS (ETGRS) are constructed by appending three columns…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Yanli Wang , Yanxin Chen , Tongjiang Yan

Higher order MDS codes are an interesting generalization of MDS codes recently introduced by Brakensiek, Gopi and Makam (IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory 2022). In later works, they were shown to be intimately connected to optimally list-decodable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Joshua Brakensiek , Manik Dhar , Sivakanth Gopi

Maximum distance separable (MDS) codes have significant combinatorial and cryptographic applications due to their certain optimality. Generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) codes are the most prominent MDS codes. Twisted generalized Reed-Solomon…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Chun'e Zhao , Wenping Ma , Tongjiang Yan , Yuhua Sun

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

The class of $\ell$-maximum distance separable ($\ell$-MDS) codes {is a} generalization of maximum distance separable (MDS) codes {that} has attracted a lot of attention due to its applications in several areas such as secret sharing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Yang Li , Shixin Zhu , Edgar Martínez-Moro

We present families of quantum error-correcting codes which are optimal in the sense that the minimum distance is maximal. These maximum distance separable (MDS) codes are defined over q-dimensional quantum systems, where q is an arbitrary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-27 Markus Grassl , Thomas Beth , Martin Roetteler

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

We show that given $n$ and $k$, for $q$ sufficiently large, there always exists an $[n, k]_q$ MDS code that has a generator matrix $G$ satisfying the following two conditions: (C1) Sparsest: each row of $G$ has Hamming weight $n - k + 1$;…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-23 Son Hoang Dau , Wentu Song , Zheng Dong , Chau Yuen

Motivated by the application of high-density data storage technologies, symbol-pair codes are proposed to protect against pair-errors in symbol-pair channels, whose outputs are overlapping pairs of symbols. The research of symbol-pair codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Baokun Ding , Gennian Ge , Jun Zhang , Tao Zhang , Yiwei Zhang

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

An important family of quantum codes is the quantum maximum-distance-separable (MDS) codes. In this paper, we construct some new classes of quantum MDS codes by generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) codes and Hermitian construction. In addition,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Ruhao Wan