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BCH codes are an important class of linear codes and find extensive utilization in communication and disk storage systems.This paper mainly analyzes the negacyclic BCH code and cyclic BCH code of length $\frac{q^m-1}{2}$. For negacyclic BCH…
We define and study burst-covering codes. We provide some general bounds connecting the parameters of a code with its burst-covering radius. We then provide stronger bounds on the burst-covering radius of cyclic codes, by employing…
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A linear code with parameters $[n, k, n-k+1]$ is called a maximum distance separable (MDS for short) code. A linear code with parameters $[n, k, n-k]$ is said to be almost maximum distance separable (AMDS for short). A linear code is said…
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