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This paper addresses the problem of constructing MDS codes that enable exact repair of each code block with small repair bandwidth, which refers to the total amount of information flow from the remaining code blocks during the repair…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Ankit Singh Rawat , Itzhak Tamo , Venkatesan Guruswami , Klim Efremenko

Maximum distance separable (MDS) codes are optimal error-correcting codes in the sense that they provide the maximum failure-tolerance for a given number of parity nodes. Suppose that an MDS code with $k$ information nodes and $r=n-k$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-11 Min Ye , Alexander Barg

Starting from a practical use of Reed-Solomon codes in a cryptographic scheme published in Indocrypt'09, this paper deals with the threshold of linear $q$-ary error-correcting codes. The security of this scheme is based on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-01-15 Bruno Kindarji , Gérard Cohen , Hervé Chabanne

Maximum-likelihood (ML) decoding can be used to obtain the optimal performance of error correction codes. However, the size of the search space and consequently the decoding complexity grows exponentially, making it impractical to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Mohammad Rowshan , Jinhong Yuan

Block codes are considered for improving the reliability of messages stored in a computer memory with both stuck-at defects and random errors. It is assumed that the side information about the state of the defects is available to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Ivana Djurdjevic , Robert Mateescu , Cyril Guyot

An $(n,k,l)$ MDS array code of length $n,$ dimension $k=n-r$ and sub-packetization $l$ is formed of $l\times n$ matrices over a finite field $F,$ with every column of the matrix stored on a separate node in a distributed storage system and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-31 Min Ye , Alexander Barg

We construct new stabilizer quantum error-correcting codes from generalized monomial-Cartesian codes. Our construction uses an explicitly defined twist vector, and we present formulas for the minimum distance and dimension. Generalized…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Beatriz Barbero-Lucas , Fernando Hernando , Helena Martín-Cruz , Gary McGuire

Twisted generalized Reed-Solomon (TGRS) codes were introduced to extend the algebraic capabilities of classical generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) codes. This extension holds the potential for constructing new non-GRS maximum distance separable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Guanghui Zhang , Liren Lin , Bocong Chen

Reed-Solomon codes are a classic family of error-correcting codes consisting of evaluations of low-degree polynomials over a finite field on some sequence of distinct field elements. They are widely known for their optimal unique-decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Omar Alrabiah , Zeyu Guo , Venkatesan Guruswami , Ray Li , Zihan Zhang

A basic problem for the constant dimension subspace coding is to determine the maximal possible size A_q (n, d, k) of a set of k-dimensional subspaces in Fnq such that the subspace distance satisfies d(U, V )> or =d for any two different…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Hao Chen , Xianmang He , Jian Weng , Liqing Xu

An $(m,n,a,b)$-tensor code consists of $m\times n$ matrices whose columns satisfy `$a$' parity checks and rows satisfy `$b$' parity checks (i.e., a tensor code is the tensor product of a column code and row code). Tensor codes are useful in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Joshua Brakensiek , Sivakanth Gopi , Visu Makam

Symbol-pair codes are proposed to guard against 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. One of the central themes in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Junru Ma

This paper studies lower bounds for fundamental optimization problems in the CONGEST model. We show that solving problems exactly in this model can be a hard task, by providing $\tilde{\Omega}(n^2)$ lower bounds for cornerstone problems,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Nir Bachrach , Keren Censor-Hillel , Michal Dory , Yuval Efron , Dean Leitersdorf , Ami Paz

In this paper, we prove that with high probability, random Reed-Solomon codes approach the half-Singleton bound - the optimal rate versus error tradeoff for linear insdel codes - with linear-sized alphabets. More precisely, we prove that,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Roni Con , Zeyu Guo , Ray Li , Zihan Zhang

$\epsilon$-Minimum Storage Regenerating ($\epsilon$-MSR) codes form a special class of Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) codes, providing mechanisms for exact regeneration of a single code block in their codewords by downloading slighly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Venkatesan Guruswami , Satyanarayana V. Lokam , Sai Vikneshwar Mani Jayaraman

Binary maximum distance separable (MDS) array codes are a special class of erasure codes for distributed storage that not only provide fault tolerance with minimum storage redundancy but also achieve low computational complexity. They are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Hanxu Hou , Yunghsiang Han , Patrick P. C. Lee , Yuchong Hu , Hui Li

Based on the fundamental results on MDS self-dual codes over finite fields constructed via generalized Reed-Solomon codes \cite{JX} and extended generalized Reed-Solomon codes \cite{Yan}, many series of MDS self-dual codes with different…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Aixian Zhang , Keqin Feng

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

This paper studies the parameters for which Reed-Muller (RM) codes over $GF(2)$ can correct random erasures and random errors with high probability, and in particular when can they achieve capacity for these two classical channels.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Emmanuel Abbe , Amir Shpilka , Avi Wigderson

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