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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 rank distance codes denoted MRD-codes are the equivalent in rank metric of MDS-codes. Given any integer $q$ power of a prime and any integer $n$ there is a family of MRD-codes of length $n$ over $\FF{q^n}$ having polynomial-time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 E. M. Gabidulin , P. Loidreau

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

We address the use of maximum distance separable (MDS) codes for distributed storage (DS) to enable efficient content delivery in wireless networks. Content is stored in a number of the mobile devices and can be retrieved from them using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-30 Amina Piemontese , Alexandre Graell i Amat

We study (symbol-pair) codes for symbol-pair read channels introduced recently by Cassuto and Blaum (2010). A Singleton-type bound on symbol-pair codes is established and infinite families of optimal symbol-pair codes are constructed. These…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-01 Yeow Meng Chee , Lijun Ji , Han Mao Kiah , Chengmin Wang , Jianxing Yin

We characterize Product-MDS pairs of linear codes, i.e.\ pairs of codes $C,D$ whose product under coordinatewise multiplication has maximum possible minimum distance as a function of the code length and the dimensions $\dim C, \dim D$. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-21 Diego Mirandola , Gilles Zémor

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

The performance and the decoding complexity of a novel coding scheme based on the concatenation of maximum distance separable (MDS) codes and linear random fountain codes are investigated. Differently from Raptor codes (which are based on a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Francisco Lázaro , Giuliano Garrammone , Gianluigi Liva

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

Maximum distance separable (MDS) codes are widely used in distributed storage, but naively repairing a single failure in an $(n,k)$ MDS code requires downloading the full contents of $k$ surviving nodes. Minimum storage regenerating (MSR)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jing Qiu , Weijun Fang , Shu-Tao Xia , Fang-Wei Fu

Symbol-pair codes are block codes with symbol-pair metrics designed to protect against pair-errors that may occur in high-density data storage systems. MDS symbol-pair codes are optimal in the sense that it can attain the highest pair-error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Xilin Tang , Weixian Li , Wei Zhao

MDS codes are elegant constructions in coding theory and have mode important applications in cryptography, network coding, distributed data storage, communication systems et. In this study, a method is given which MDS codes are lifted to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Elif Segah Oztas

In this paper, we study a class of subcodes of codimension $1$ in the $[n,k+1]_q$ generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) codes, whose generator matrix is derived by removing the row of degree $k-r$ from the generator matrix of the $[n,k+1]_q$ GRS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yu Ning

A construction of expander codes is presented with the following three properties: (i) the codes lie close to the Singleton bound, (ii) they can be encoded in time complexity that is linear in their code length, and (iii) they have a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ron M. Roth , Vitaly Skachek

In this paper, we produce some new classes of entanglement-assisted quantum MDS codes(EAQMDS codes for short) via generalized Reed-Solomon codes over finite fields of odd characteristic. Among our constructions, there are many EAQMDS codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Renjie Jin , Yiran Cao , Jinquan Luo

The sub-packetization $\ell$ and the field size $q$ are of paramount importance in the MSR array code constructions. For optimal-access MSR codes, Balaji et al. proved that $\ell\geq s^{\left\lceil n/s \right\rceil}$, where $s = d-k+1$.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Guodong Li , Ningning Wang , Sihuang Hu , Min Ye

Let $q=p^m$ be a prime power, $e$ be an integer with $0\leq e\leq m-1$ and $s=\gcd(e,m)$. In this paper, for a vector $v$ and a $q$-ary linear code $C$, we give some necessary and sufficient conditions for the equivalent code $vC$ of $C$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Ruhao Wan , Shixin Zhu

A $(k+r,k,l)$ binary array code of length $k+r$, dimension $k$, and sub-packetization $l$ is composed of $l\times(k+r)$ matrices over $\mathbb{F}_2$, with every column of the matrix stored on a separate node in the distributed storage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Lan Ma , Qifu Tyler Sun , Shaoteng Liu , Liyang Zhou

We present a new general construction of MDS codes over a finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$. We describe two explicit subclasses which contain new MDS codes of length at least $q/2$ for all values of $q \ge 11$. Moreover, we show that most of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Peter Beelen , Sven Puchinger , Johan Rosenkilde né Nielsen

In this article we prove Griesmer type bounds for additive codes over finite fields. These new bounds give upper bounds on the length of maximum distance separable (MDS) codes, codes which attain the Singleton bound. We will also consider…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Simeon Ball , Michel Lavrauw , Tabriz Popatia