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A binary code of blocklength $n$ and codebook size $M$ is called an $(n,M)$ code, which is studied for memoryless binary symmetric channels (BSCs) with the maximum likelihood (ML) decoding. For any $n \geq 2$, some optimal codes among the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Yanyan Dong , Shenghao Yang

The projective space of order $n$ over a finite field $\F_q$ is a set of all subspaces of the vector space $\F_q^{n}$. In this work, we consider error-correcting codes in the projective space, focusing mainly on constant dimension codes. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-09-09 Natalia Silberstein

Maximum distance separable (MDS) codes that are not equivalent to generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) codes are called non-GRS MDS codes. Alongside near MDS (NMDS) codes, they are applicable in communication, cryptography, and storage systems.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yang Li , Martianus Frederic Ezerman , Huimin Lao , San Ling

MDS codes are erasure-correcting codes that can correct the maximum number of erasures for a given number of redundancy or parity symbols. If an MDS code has $r$ parities and no more than $r$ erasures occur, then by transmitting all the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-25 Zhiying Wang , Itzhak Tamo , Jehoshua Bruck

Maximum distance separable (MDS) codes and near MDS (NMDS) codes are of particular interest in coding theory due to their optimal error-correcting capabilities and wide applications in communication, cryptography, and storage systems. A…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yang Li , Zhenliang Lu , San Ling , Kwok-Yan Lam

Constructions of quantum MDS codes have been studied by many authors. We refer to the table in page 1482 of [3] for known constructions. However there are only few $q$-ary quantum MDS $[[n,n-2d+2,d]]_q$ codes with minimum distances…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-08 Xianmang He , Liqing Xu , Hao Chen

It has been a great challenge to construct new quantum MDS codes. In particular, it is very hard to construct quantum MDS codes with relatively large minimum distance. So far, except for some sparse lengths, all known $q$-ary quantum MDS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Lingfei Jin , Chaoping Xing

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

Maximum distance separable (MDS) codes are widely used in storage systems to protect against disk (node) failures. A node is said to have capacity $l$ over some field $\mathbb{F}$, if it can store that amount of symbols of the field. An…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Itzhak Tamo , Zhiying Wang , Jehoshua Bruck

Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) self-dual codes are of significant theoretical and practical importance. Generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) codes are the most prominent MDS codes. Correspondingly there have been many research on constructions…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Chun'e Zhao , Wenping Ma

It's well-known that maximum distance separable codes (in short, MDS) and linear complementary dual (in short, LCD) codes are very important in coding theory and practice. In 2023, Yue et al. [25] constructed three classes of LCD MDS codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Zhonghao Liang , Qunying Liao

It is known that maximum distance separable and maximum distance profile convolutional codes exist over large enough finite fields of any characteristic for all parameters $(n,k,\delta)$. It has been conjectured that the same is true for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-01-03 Ryan Hutchinson

Recently, network error correction coding (NEC) has been studied extensively. Several bounds in classical coding theory have been extended to network error correction coding, especially the Singleton bound. In this paper, following the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-11-08 Xuan Guang , Fang-Wei Fu , Zhen Zhang

Maximum distance separable (MDS) codes have significant combinatorial and cryptographic applications due to their certain optimality. Generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) codes are the most prominent MDS codes. Twisted generalized Reed-Solomon…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Chun'e Zhao , Wenping Ma , Tongjiang Yan , Yuhua Sun

In this paper, we present new constructions of $q$-ary Singleton-optimal locally repairable codes (LRCs) with minimum distance $d=6$ and locality $r=3$, based on combinatorial structures from finite geometry. By exploiting the well-known…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Yanzhen Xiong , Jianbing Lu

The class of $\ell$-maximum distance separable ($\ell$-MDS) codes {is a} generalization of maximum distance separable (MDS) codes {that} has attracted a lot of attention due to its applications in several areas such as secret sharing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Yang Li , Shixin Zhu , Edgar Martínez-Moro

Let $C$ be an $[n,k]$ linear code chosen uniformly at random over a finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$ of size $q$. The following asymptotic probability of $C$ being maximum distance separable (MDS) as $q,n,k\to\infty$ is known: If…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Rathinakumar Appuswamy , Marco Bazzani , Spencer Congero , Joseph Connelly , Matthew Ekaireb , Kenneth Zeger

Constructions of distance-optimal codes and quasi-perfect codes are challenging problems and have attracted many attentions. In this paper, we give the following three results. 1) If $\lambda|q^{sm}-1$ and $\lambda…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Hao Chen

In this paper, we study the weight spectrum of linear codes with \emph{super-linear} field size and use the probabilistic method to show that for nearly all such codes, the corresponding weight spectrum is very close to that of a maximum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Ghurumuruhan Ganesan

A linear code is called an MDS self-dual code if it is both an MDS code and a self-dual code with respect to the Euclidean inner product. The parameters of such codes are completely determined by the code length. In this paper, we consider…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Weijun Fang , Jun Zhang , Shu-Tao Xia1 , Fang-Wei Fu