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Linear codes with complementary duals (abbreviated LCD) are linear codes whose intersection with their dual is trivial. When they are binary, they play an important role in armoring implementations against side-channel attacks and fault…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Claude Carlet , Sihem Mesnager , Chunming Tang , Yanfeng Qi

Linear complementary dual codes (or codes with complementary duals) are codes whose intersections with their dual codes are trivial. We study binary linear complementary dual $[n,k]$ codes with the largest minimum weight among all binary…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-20 Masaaki Harada , Ken Saito

Linear codes are considered over the ring $\mathbb{Z}_4+v\mathbb{Z}_4$, where $v^2=v$. Gray weight, Gray maps for linear codes are defined and MacWilliams identity for the Gray weight enumerator is given. Self-dual codes, construction of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-05 Jian Gao , Yun Gao , Fang-Wei Fu

Linear codes can be employed to construct authentication codes, which is an interesting area of cryptography. The parameters of the authentication codes depend on the complete weight enumerator of the underlying linear codes. In order to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-27 Can Xiang , Hao Liu

Linear complementary dual (LCD) codes are linear codes that intersect with their dual codes trivially. We study the largest minimum weight $d_2(n,k)$ among all binary LCD $[n,k]$ codes and the largest minimum weight $d_3(n,k)$ among all…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Makoto Araya , Masaaki Harada , Ken Saito

Recently, the construction of new MDS Euclidean self-dual codes has been widely investigated. In this paper, for square q, we utilize generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) codes and their extended codes to provide four generic families of q-ary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Ziteng Huang , Weijun Fang , Fang-Wei Fu

For the category of group codes, that generalizes the category of linear codes over a finite field, and with the generalized notions of direct sums and ndecomposable group codes, we prove that every MDS non trivial code, every perfect non…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-09-24 Rolando Gómez Macedo , Felipe Zaldívar

Recently, Roth and Skachek proposed two methods for constructing nearly maximum-distance separable (MDS) expander codes. We show that through the simple modification of using mixed-alphabet codes derived from MDS codes as constituent codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-08-09 Marc A. Armand , Jianwen Zhang

In this article, we show explicitly all possible weight enumerators for every irreducible cyclic code of length $n$ over a finite field $\mathbb F_q$, in the case which each prime divisor of $n$ is also a divisor of $q-1$.

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-12 F. E. Brochero Martínez , C. R. Giraldo Vergara

In this paper, we analyze $m$-dimensional ($m$D) convolutional codes with finite support, viewed as a natural generalization of one-dimensional (1D) convolutional codes to higher dimensions. An $m$D convolutional code with finite support…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Z. Abreu , J. Lieb , R. Pinto , R. Simoes

In coding theory, a very interesting problem (but at the same time, a very difficult one) is to determine the weight distribution of a given code. This problem is even more interesting for cyclic codes, and this is so, mainly because they…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-29 Gerardo Vega

Determining the weight distribution of a linear code is a classical and fundamental topic in coding theory that has been extensively investigated. Repeated-root cyclic codes, which form a significant subclass of error-correcting codes, have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Wei Zhao , Weixian Li , Shenghao Yang , Fang-Wei Fu , Kenneth W. Shum

We give a generalization of Kung's theorem on critical exponents of linear codes over a finite field, in terms of sums of extended weight polynomials of linear codes. For all i=k+1,...,n, we give an upper bound on the smallest integer m…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-05 Trygve Johnsen , Keisuke Shiromoto , Hugues Verdure

Maximum distance separable (MDS) and near maximum distance separable (NMDS) codes have been widely used in various fields such as communication systems, data storage, and quantum codes due to their algebraic properties and excellent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Yujie Zhi , Shixin Zhu

This correspondence introduces two new constructive techniques to complete the determination of the sizes of optimal q-ary codes of constant weight three and distance four.

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-03-27 Yeow Meng Chee , Son Hoang Dau , Alan C. H. Ling , San Ling

In the past few years, linear codes with few weights and their weight analysis have been widely studied. In this paper, we further investigate a class of two-weight or three-weight linear codes from defining sets and determine their weight…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Dabin Zheng , Qing Zhao , Xiaoqiang Wang , Yan Zhang

Linear complementary dual (LCD) maximum distance separable (MDS) codes are constructed to given specifications. For given $n$ and $r<n$, with $n$ or $r$ (or both) odd, MDS LCD $(n,r)$ codes are constructed over finite fields whose…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Ted Hurley

Systematic constructions of MDS self-dual codes is widely concerned. In this paper, we consider the constructions of MDS Euclidean self-dual codes from short length. Indeed, the exact constructions of MDS Euclidean self-dual codes from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Derong Xie , Xiaolei Fang , Jinquan Luo

This paper introduces a new combinatorial construction for q-ary constant-weight codes which yields several families of optimal codes and asymptotically optimal codes. The construction reveals intimate connection between q-ary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Yeow Meng Chee , San Ling

MDS self-dual codes have nice algebraic structures and are uniquely determined by lengths. Recently, the construction of MDS self-dual codes of new lengths has become an important and hot issue in coding theory. In this paper, we develop…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Ruhao Wan , Yang Li , Shixin Zhu