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Due to their efficient encoding and decoding algorithms cyclic codes, a subclass of linear codes, have applications in consumer electronics, data storage systems, and communication systems. In this paper, Dickson polynomials of the first…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Cunsheng Ding

A construction is presented that allows to produce subspace codes of long length using subspace codes of shorter length in combination with a rank metric code. The subspace distance of the resulting code, called linkage code, is as good as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-12 Heide Gluesing-Luerssen , Carolyn Troha

Subsystem codes protect quantum information by encoding it in a tensor factor of a subspace of the physical state space. Subsystem codes generalize all major quantum error protection schemes, and therefore are especially versatile. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-11 Salah A. Aly , Andreas Klappenecker

Determining information ratios of access structures is an important problem in secret sharing. Information inequalities and linear rank inequalities play an important role for proving bounds. Characteristic-dependent linear rank…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Victor Peña-Macias

Following the approach by R. K\"otter and F. R. Kschischang, we study network codes as families of k-dimensional linear subspaces of a vector space F_q^n, q being a prime power and F_q the finite field with q elements. In particular,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-06-25 Elisa Gorla , Alberto Ravagnani

This work investigates the structure of rank-metric codes in connection with concepts from finite geometry, most notably the $q$-analogues of projective systems and blocking sets. We also illustrate how to associate a classical…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-24 Gianira N. Alfarano , Martino Borello , Alessandro Neri , Alberto Ravagnani

Inspired by prior work by Tian and by Cao and Xu, this paper presents an efficient computer-aided framework to characterize the fundamental limits of coded caching systems under the constraint of linear coding. The proposed framework…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Niccolò Brembilla , Yinbin Ma , Pietro Belotti , Federico Malucelli , Daniela Tuninetti

In this paper, we present a construction of linear codes over $\f_{2^t}$ from Boolean functions, which is a generalization of Ding's method \cite[Theorem 9]{Ding15}. Based on this construction, we give two classes of linear codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-10 Can Xiang , Keqin Feng , Chunming Tang

The minimum distance of a code is an important concept in information theory. Hence, computing the minimum distance of a code with a minimum computational cost is a crucial process to many problems in this area. In this paper, we present…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Fernando Hernando , Francisco D. Igual , Gregorio Quintana-Ortí

We introduce two constructions of additive codes over finite fields. Both constructions start with a linear code over a field with $q$ elements and give additive codes over the field with $q^h$ elements whose minimum distance is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Simeon Ball , Tabriz Popatia

Subspace codes have important applications in random network coding. It is interesting to construct subspace codes with both sizes, and the minimum distances are as large as possible. In particular, cyclic constant dimension subspaces codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Yun Li , Hongwei Liu , Sihem Mesnager

In this manuscript, we construct a class of projective three-weight linear codes and two classes of projective four-weight linear codes over F2 from the defining sets construction, and determine their weight distributions by using additive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Qunying Liao , Zhaohui Zhang , Peipei Zheng

Machine learning on encrypted data has received a lot of attention thanks to recent breakthroughs in homomorphic encryption and secure multi-party computation. It allows outsourcing computation to untrusted servers without sacrificing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Theo Ryffel , Edouard Dufour-Sans , Romain Gay , Francis Bach , David Pointcheval

In this paper, we extend a necessary and sufficient condition for a linear code over a Galois ring to be minimal and establish new bounds on the length of an $m$-dimensional minimal linear code. Building upon this structural…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Biplab Chatterjee , Sihem Mesnager , Ratnesh Kumar Mishra , Makhan Maji , Kalyan Hansda

In an interesting paper Professor Cunsheng Ding provided three constructions of cyclic codes of length being a product of two primes. Numerical data shows that many codes from these constructions are best cyclic codes of the same length and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-03 Maosheng Xiong

Linear real-valued computations over distributed datasets are common in many applications, most notably as part of machine learning inference. In particular, linear computations that are quantized, i.e., where the coefficients are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Vinayak Ramkumar , Netanel Raviv , Itzhak Tamo

Locally recoverable codes (LRCs) were proposed for the recovery of data in distributed and cloud storage systems about nine years ago. A lot of progress on the study of LRCs has been made by now. However, there is a lack of general theory…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Pan Tan , Cuiling Fan , Cunsheng Ding , Zhengchun Zhou

Cyclic codes have wide applications in data storage systems and communication systems. Employing two-prime Whiteman generalized cyclotomic sequences of order 6, we construct several classes of cyclic codes over the finite field GF}(q) and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-06 Tongjiang Yan , Yanyan Liu , Yuhua Sun

Network coding provides the advantage of maximizing the usage of network resources, and has great application prospects in future network communications. However, the properties of network coding also make the pollution attack more serious.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-03-06 Jun Zhang , Xinran Li , Fang-Wei Fu

Minimal linear codes are in one-to-one correspondence with special types of blocking sets of projective spaces over a finite field, which are called strong or cutting blocking sets. In this paper we prove an upper bound on the minimal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Tamás Héger , Zoltán Lóránt Nagy