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Reed-Solomon (RS) codes are constructed over a finite field that have been widely employed in storage and communication systems. Many fast encoding/decoding algorithms such as fast Fourier transform (FFT) and modular approach are designed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Wenhao Liu , Zhengyi Jiang , Zhongyi Huang , Linqi Song , Hanxu Hou

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 2022-04-19 Xiuxin Tang , Rong Luo

In this paper we study the decoding capabilities of convolutional codes over the erasure channel. Of special interest will be maximum distance profile (MDP) convolutional codes. These are codes which have a maximum possible column distance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-09-01 Virtudes Tomás , Joachim Rosenthal , Roxana Smarandache

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

Maximum distance separable (MDS) codes are considered optimal because the minimum distance cannot be improved for a given length and code size. The most prominent MDS codes are likely the generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) codes. In 1989, Roth…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Shengwei Liu , Hongwei Liu , Bocong Chen

$\epsilon$-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

We study the existence over small fields of Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) codes with generator matrices having specified supports (i.e. having specified locations of zero entries). This problem unifies and simplifies the problems posed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-17 Son Hoang Dau , Wentu Song , Chau Yuen

Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) self-dual codes are of significant theoretical and practical importance. Generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) codes are the most prominent MDS codes. Correspondingly there have been many research on constructions…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Chun'e Zhao , Wenping Ma

We define Convolutional Goppa Codes over algebraic curves and construct their corresponding dual codes. Examples over the projective line and over elliptic curves are described, obtaining in particular some Maximum-Distance Separable (MDS)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-15 J. M. Muñoz Porras , J. A. Dominguez Perez , J. I. Iglesias Curto , G. Serrano Sotelo

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of almost maximum distance separable (AMDS) constacyclic codes of length $4p^{\varsigma}$ over the finite field $\mathbb{F}_{p^m}$, where $p$ is an odd prime number. Furthermore, it introduces…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Manasa K J , Divya Acharya , Prasanna Poojary

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

Maximum rank-distance (MRD) codes are extremal codes in the space of $m\times n$ matrices over a finite field, equipped with the rank metric. Up to generalizations, the classical examples of such codes were constructed in the 1970s and are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-14 Kai-Uwe Schmidt , Yue Zhou

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

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

In this paper we study flag codes of maximum distance. We characterize these codes in terms of, at most, two relevant constant dimension codes naturally associated to them. We do this first for general flag codes and then particularize to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-28 Miguel Ángel Navarro-Pérez , Xaro Soler-Escrivà

For each odd prime power $q$, let $4 \leq n\leq q^{2}+1$. Hermitian self-orthogonal $[n,2,n-1]$ codes over $GF(q^{2})$ with dual distance three are constructed by using finite field theory. Hence, $[[n,n-4,3]]_{q}$ quantum MDS codes for $4…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Ruihu Li , Zongben Xu

In this paper, we construct several classes of maximum distance separable (MDS) codes via generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) codes and extended GRS codes, where we can determine the dimensions of their Euclidean hulls or Hermitian hulls. It…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Weijun Fang , Fang-Wei Fu , Lanqiang Li , Shixin Zhu

Maximally recoverable codes are a class of codes which recover from all potentially recoverable erasure patterns given the locality constraints of the code. In earlier works, these codes have been studied in the context of codes with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Aaditya M Nair , V. Lalitha

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

Since near maximum distance separable (NMDS) codes have good algebraic properties and excellent error-correcting capabilities, they have been widely used in various fields such as communication systems, data storage, quantum codes, and so…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Zhonghao Liang , Qunying Liao