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Reed--Solomon error-correcting codes are ubiquitous across computer science and information theory, with applications in cryptography, computational complexity, communication and storage systems, and more. Most works on efficient error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Chris Peikert , Alexandra Veliche Hostetler

When a node in a distributed storage system fails, it needs to be promptly repaired to maintain system integrity. While typical erasure codes can provide a significant storage advantage over replication, they suffer from poor repair…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Geonu Kim , Jungwoo Lee

We describe a novel extension of subspace codes for noncoherent networks, suitable for use when the network is viewed as a communication system that introduces both dimension and symbol errors. We show that when symbol erasures occur in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-25 Vitaly Skachek , Olgica Milenkovic , Angelia Nedic

We investigate the minimum distance of structured binary Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) codes whose parity-check matrices are of the form $[\mathbf{C} \vert \mathbf{M}]$ where $\mathbf{C}$ is circulant and of column weight $2$, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-03 François Arnault , Philippe Gaborit , Wouter Rozendaal , Nicolas Saussay , Gilles Zémor

This paper establishes a novel upper bound-termed the arithmetic Singleton bound-on the Hamming distance of any simple-root constacyclic code over a finite field. The key technical ingredient is the notion of multiple equal-difference (MED)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Li Zhu , Hongfeng Wu

We study linear exact repair for $(n,k,\ell)$ MDS array codes over $\mathbb{F}_q$, with redundancy $r=n-k$, in the regime where $q$, $r$, and $\ell$ are fixed and the code length $n$ varies. A recent projective counting argument gives a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Huawei Wu

In this paper, two classes of quantum MDS codes are constructed. The main tools are multiplicative structures on finite fields. Carefully choosing different cosets can make the corresponding generalized Reed-Solomon codes Hermitian…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Puyin Wang , Jinquan Luo

Distributed and cloud storage systems are used to reliably store large-scale data. Erasure codes have been recently proposed and used in real-world distributed and cloud storage systems such as Google File System, Microsoft Azure Storage,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Mehrtash Mehrabi , Massoud Ardakani

List-decoding and list-recovery are important generalizations of unique decoding that received considerable attention over the years. However, the optimal trade-off among list-decoding (resp. list-recovery) radius, list size, and the code…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Eitan Goldberg , Chong Shangguan , Itzhak Tamo

Both MDS and Euclidean self-dual codes have theoretical and practical importance and the study of MDS self-dual codes has attracted lots of attention in recent years. In particular, determining existence of $q$-ary MDS self-dual codes for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-26 Lingfei Jin , Chaoping Xing

In this work, we present an abstract framework for some algebraic error-correcting codes with the aim of capturing codes that are list-decodable to capacity, along with their decoding algorithm. In the polynomial ideal framework, a code is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Siddharth Bhandari , Prahladh Harsha , Mrinal Kumar , Madhu Sudan

According to their strength, the tracing properties of a code can be categorized as frameproof, separating, IPP and TA. It is known that if the minimum distance of the code is larger than a certain threshold then the TA property implies the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Marcel Fernandez , Jorge Urroz

We present families of quantum error-correcting codes which are optimal in the sense that the minimum distance is maximal. These maximum distance separable (MDS) codes are defined over q-dimensional quantum systems, where q is an arbitrary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-27 Markus Grassl , Thomas Beth , Martin Roetteler

In the realm of rank-metric codes, Maximum Rank Distance (MRD) codes are optimal algebraic structures attaining the Singleton-like bound. A major open problem in this field is determining whether an MRD code can be extended to a longer one…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Daniele Bartoli , Alessandro Giannoni , Giuseppe Marino , Alessandro Neri

Locally repairable codes(LRCs) play important roles in distributed storage systems(DSS). LRCs with small locality have their own advantages since fewer available symbols are needed in the recovery of erased symbols. In this paper, we prove…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Yuan Gao , Siman Yang

Codes in finite projective spaces equipped with the subspace distance have been proposed for error control in random linear network coding. The resulting so-called \emph{Main Problem of Subspace Coding} is to determine the maximum size…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-30 Thomas Honold , Michael Kiermaier , Sascha Kurz

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

Finding the maximum size of a Sidon set in $\mathbb{F}_2^t$ is of research interest for more than 40 years. In order to tackle this problem we recall a one-to-one correspondence between sum-free Sidon sets and linear codes with minimum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-05 Ingo Czerwinski , Alexander Pott

The central problem in sequence reconstruction is to find the minimum number of distinct channel outputs required to uniquely reconstruct the transmitted sequence. According to Levenshtein's work in 2001, this number is determined by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Wentu Song , Kui Cai , Tony Q. S. Quek

Secure codes are widely-studied combinatorial structures which were introduced for traitor tracing in broadcast encryption. To determine the maximum size of such structures is the main research objective. In this paper, we investigate the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Bingchen Qian , Xin Wang , Gennian Ge