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We consider the problem of describing the typical (possibly) non-linear code of minimum distance bounded from below over a large alphabet. We concentrate on block codes with the Hamming metric and on subspace codes with the injection…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Anina Gruica , Alberto Ravagnani

This paper introduces a checksum algorithm that provides a new point in the performance/complexity/effectiveness checksum tradeoff space. It has better fault detection properties than single-sum and dual-sum modular addition checksums. It…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Philip Koopman

The code equivalence problem is central in coding theory and cryptography. While classical invariants are effective for Hamming and rank metrics, the sum-rank metric, which unifies both, introduces new challenges. This paper introduces new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Paolo Santonastaso , Ferdinando Zullo

Function-correcting codes are a coding framework designed to minimize redundancy while ensuring that specific functions or computations of encoded data can be reliably recovered, even in the presence of errors. The choice of metric is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Gyanendra K. Verma , Abhay Kumar Singh

We introduce the sum-rank metric analogue of Reed--Muller codes, which we called linearized Reed--Muller codes, using multivariate Ore polynomials. We study the parameters of these codes, compute their dimension and give a lower bound for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Elena Berardini , Xavier Caruso

The sum-rank metric is a hybrid between the Hamming metric and the rank metric and suitable for error correction in multishot network coding and distributed storage as well as for the design of quantum-resistant cryptosystems. In this work,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Felicitas Hörmann , Hannes Bartz

A $\lambda$-fold $r$-packing (multiple radius-$r$ covering) in a Hamming metric space is a code $C$ such that the radius-$r$ balls centered in $C$ cover each vertex of the space by not more (not less, respectively) than $\lambda$ times. The…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Denis S. Krotov , Vladimir N. Potapov

Sum-rank codes have wide applications in multishot network coding, distributed storage and the construction of space-time codes. Asymptotically good sequences of linearized algebraic geometry sum-rank codes, exceeding the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Huimin Lao , Hao Chen , San Ling , Yaqi Chen

In this paper, we describe the properties of the $i$-components of Hamming codes. We suggest constructions of the admissible families of components of Hamming codes. It is shown that every $q$-ary code of length $m$ and minimum distance 5…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-03 Alexander M. Romanov

The service rate region of a coded distributed storage system is the set of all achievable data access requests under the capacity constraints. This paper investigates the service rate regions of systematic Hamming codes using hypergraph…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Priyanka Choudhary , Maheshanand Bhaintwal

We derive a general lower bound for the generalized Hamming weights of nested matrix-product codes, with a particular emphasis on the cases with two and three constituent codes. We also provide an upper bound which is reminiscent of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Rodrigo San-José

R. W. Hamming published the Hamming codes and the sphere packing bound in 1950. In the past 75 years, infinite families of distance-optimal linear codes over finite fields with minimum distance at most 8 with respect to the sphere packing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Hao Chen , Conghui Xie , Cunsheng Ding

In order to correct the pair-errors generated during the transmission of modern high-density data storage that the outputs of the channels consist of overlapping pairs of symbols, a new coding scheme named symbol-pair code is proposed. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Xiujing Zheng , Liqi Wang , Shixin Zhu

Sum-rank codes have known applications in the multishot network coding, the distributed storage and the construction of space-time codes. U. Mart\'{\i}nez-Pe\~{n}as introduced the cyclic-skew-cyclic sum-rank codes and proposed the BCH bound…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Hao Chen , Cunsheng Ding , Zhiqiang Cheng , Conghui Xie

We extend the existing skew polynomial representations of matrix algebras which are direct sum of matrix spaces over division rings. In this representation, the sum-rank distance between two tuples of matrices is captured by a weight…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Alessandro Neri , Paolo Santonastaso

Given a set of strings over a specified alphabet, identifying a median or consensus string that minimizes the total distance to all input strings is a fundamental data aggregation problem. When the Hamming distance is considered as the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Diptarka Chakraborty , Rudrayan Kundu , Nidhi Purohit , Aravinda Kanchana Ruwanpathirana

In this paper we extend the study of linear spaces of upper triangular matrices endowed with the flag-rank metric. Such metric spaces are isometric to certain spaces of degenerate flags and have been suggested as suitable framework for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-30 Gianira N. Alfarano , Alessandro Neri , Ferdinando Zullo

In this paper we introduce and investigate rank-metric intersecting codes, a new class of linear codes in the rank-metric context, inspired by the well-studied notion of intersecting codes in the Hamming metric. A rank-metric code is said…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Daniele Bartoli , Martino Borello , Giuseppe Marino , Martin Scotti

The sum-rank metric is the mixture of the Hamming and rank metrics. The sum-rank metric found its application in network coding, locally repairable codes, space-time coding, and quantum-resistant cryptography. Linearized Reed-Solomon (LRS)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Kuo Shang , Chen Yuan , Ruiqi Zhu

The classical way of extending an $[n, k, d]$ linear code $\C$ is to add an overall parity-check coordinate to each codeword of the linear code $\C$. This extended code, denoted by $\overline{\C}(-\bone)$ and called the standardly extended…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Zhonghua Sun , Cunsheng Ding , Tingfang Chen