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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

Both maximum distance separable (MDS) codes that are not equivalent to generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) codes (non-GRS MDS codes) and near MDS (NMDS) codes have nice applications in communication and storage systems. In this paper, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Yang Li , Zhonghua Sun , Shixin Zhu

The weight distribution of the cosets of maximum distance separable (MDS) codes is considered. In 1990, P.G. Bonneau proposed a relation to obtain the full weight distribution of a coset of an MDS code with minimum distance $d$ using the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Alexander A. Davydov , Stefano Marcugini , Fernanda Pambianco

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 2022-06-02 Xiuxin Tang , Rong Luo

The determination of the weight distribution of linear codes has been a fascinating problem since the very beginning of coding theory. There has been a lot of research on weight enumerators of special cases, such as self-dual codes and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Alessio Meneghetti , Marco Pellegrini , Massimiliano Sala

We introduce a formula for determining the number of codewords of weight 2 in cyclic codes and provide results related to the count of codewords with weight 3. Additionally, we establish a recursive relationship for binary cyclic codes that…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-03 José G. Coelho , F. E. Brochero Martínez

A fundamental property of codes, the second-order weight distribution, is proposed to solve the problems such as computing second moments of weight distributions of linear code ensembles. A series of results, parallel to those for weight…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-11-15 Shengtian Yang

We study (symbol-pair) codes for symbol-pair read channels introduced recently by Cassuto and Blaum (2010). A Singleton-type bound on symbol-pair codes is established and infinite families of optimal symbol-pair codes are constructed. These…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-01 Yeow Meng Chee , Lijun Ji , Han Mao Kiah , Chengmin Wang , Jianxing Yin

We introduce the concept of spread of a code, and we specialize it to the case of maximum weight spectrum (MWS) codes. We classify two newly-defined sub-families of MWS codes according to their weight distributions, and completely describe…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-09 Alessio Meneghetti , Wrya K. Kadir

Maximum distance separable (MDS) array codes constitute an important class of error-correcting codes due to their optimal distance properties and their relevance in distributed storage systems. In this paper, we investigate the construction…

Motivated by the application of high-density data storage technologies, symbol-pair codes are proposed to protect against pair-errors in symbol-pair channels, whose outputs are overlapping pairs of symbols. The research of symbol-pair codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Baokun Ding , Gennian Ge , Jun Zhang , Tao Zhang , Yiwei Zhang

In modern storage technologies, symbol-pair codes have emerged as a crucial framework for addressing errors in channels where symbols are read in overlapping pairs to guard against pair errors. A symbol-pair code that meets the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Rongxing Qiu , Weijun Fang

In this article, we illustrate an algorithm for the computation of the weight distribution of CRC codes. The recursive structure of CRC codes will give us an iterative way to compute the weight distribution of their dual codes starting from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Felice Manganiello

Symbol-pair codes were proposed for the application in high density storage systems, where it is not possible to read individual symbols. Yaakobi, Bruck and Siegel proved that the minimum pair-distance of binary linear cyclic codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Hao Chen

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, for any odd prime $p$ and an integer $m\ge 3$, several classes of linear codes with $t$-weight $(t=3,5,7)$ are obtained based on some defining sets, and then their complete weight enumerators are determined explicitly by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Canze Zhu , Qunying Liao

Matrix product codes are generalizations of some well-known constructions of codes, such as Reed-Muller codes, $[u+v,u-v]$-construction, etc. Recently, a bound for the symbol-pair distance of a matrix product code was given in \cite{LEL},…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Pan Xu , Ling San , Liu Hongwei

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

A $q$-ary maximum distance separable (MDS) code $C$ with length $n$, dimension $k$ over an alphabet $\mathcal{A}$ of size $q$ is a set of $q^k$ codewords that are elements of $\mathcal{A}^n$, such that the Hamming distance between two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-04-28 Janne I. Kokkala , Patric R. J. Östergård

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