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Sum-rank-metric codes have wide applications in universal error correction, multishot network coding, space-time coding and the construction of partial-MDS codes for repair in distributed storage. Fundamental properties of sum-rank-metric…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Hao Chen

The sum-rank metric naturally extends both the Hamming and rank metrics in coding theory over fields. It measures the error-correcting capability of codes in multishot matrix-multiplicative channels (e.g. linear network coding or the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Umberto Martínez-Peñas

Sum-rank metric codes have recently attracted the attention of many researchers, due to their relevance in several applications. Mathematically, the sum-rank metric is a natural generalization of both the Hamming metric and the rank metric.…

This paper investigates the theory of sum-rank metric codes for which the individual matrix blocks may have different sizes. Various bounds on the cardinality of a code are derived, along with their asymptotic extensions. The duality theory…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Eimear Byrne , Heide Gluesing-Luerssen , Alberto Ravagnani

Sum-rank metric codes, as a generalization of Hamming codes and rank metric codes, have important applications in fields such as multi-shot linear network coding, space-time coding and distributed storage systems. The purpose of this study…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Xuemei Liu , Jiarong Zhang , Gang Wang

Codes in the sum-rank metric have received many attentions in recent years, since they have wide applications in the multishot network coding, the space-time coding and the distributed storage. Fundamental bounds, some explicit or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Hao Chen

The sum-rank metric arises as an algebraic approach for coding in MIMO block-fading channels and multishot network coding. Codes designed in the sum-rank metric have raised interest in applications such as streaming codes, robust coded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Cornelia Ott , Hedongliang Liu , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

Sum-rank codes are an important class of codes which can be utilized for linear network coding, space-time coding and distributed storage. They can not only reduce the size of network alphabet but also detect and correct more errors. Based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Qingfeng Xia , Hongwei Liu , Hao Chen , Xu Pan

A sum-rank-metric code attaining the Singleton bound is called maximum sum-rank distance (MSRD). MSRD codes have been constructed for some parameter cases. In this paper we construct a linear MSRD code over an arbitrary field ${\bf F}_q$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Hao Chen

This is a chapter of the upcoming "A Concise Encyclopedia of Coding Theory", W.C. Huffman, J.-L. Kim, and P. Sole' Eds., CRC Press. The chapter gives an introduction to the mathematical theory of rank-metric codes. Treated topics include:…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-08 Elisa Gorla

Codes in the sum-rank metric have received many attentions in recent years, since they have wide applications in the multishot network coding, the space-time coding and the distributed storage. In this paper, by constructing covering codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Chao Liu , Hao Chen , Qinqin Ji , Ziyan Xie , Dabin Zheng , Yongbo Xia

The code equivalence problem is central in coding theory and cryptography. While classical invariants are effective for Hamming and rank metrics, the sum-rank metric, which unifies both, introduces new challenges. This paper introduces new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Paolo Santonastaso , Ferdinando Zullo

We study the structure of anticodes in the sum-rank metric for arbitrary fields and matrix blocks of arbitrary sizes. Our main result is a complete classification of optimal linear anticodes. We also compare the cardinality of the ball in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-31 Eimear Byrne , Heide Gluesing-Luerssen , Alberto Ravagnani

The tensor product of one code endowed with the Hamming metric and one endowed with the rank metric is analyzed. This gives a code which naturally inherits the sum-rank metric. Specializing to the product of a cyclic code and a skew-cyclic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Gianira N. Alfarano , F. J. Lobillo , Alessandro Neri , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

Sum-rank codes have wide applications in multishot network coding, distributed storage and the construction of space-time codes. Asymptotically good sequences of linearized algebraic geometry sum-rank codes, exceeding the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Huimin Lao , Hao Chen , San Ling , Yaqi Chen

We present the theory of linear rank-metric codes from the point of view of their fundamental parameters. These are: the minimum rank distance, the rank distribution, the maximum rank, the covering radius, and the field size. The focus of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Anina Gruica , Altan B. Kilic , Alberto Ravagnani

One-weight codes, in which all nonzero codewords share the same weight, form a highly structured class of linear codes with deep connections to finite geometry. While their classification is well understood in the Hamming and rank metrics -…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Usman Mushrraf , Ferdinando Zullo

The rank metric measures the distance between two matrices by the rank of their difference. Codes designed for the rank metric have attracted considerable attention in recent years, reinforced by network coding and further motivated by a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Hannes Bartz , Lukas Holzbaur , Hedongliang Liu , Sven Puchinger , Julian Renner , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

The multiplicative-additive finite-field matrix channel arises as an adequate model for linear network coding systems when links are subject to errors and erasures, and both the network topology and the network code are unknown. In a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-04-13 Roberto W. Nobrega , Bartolomeu F. Uchoa-Filho

We provide a geometric characterization of $k$-dimensional $\mathbb{F}_{q^m}$-linear sum-rank metric codes as tuples of $\mathbb{F}_q$-subspaces of $\mathbb{F}_{q^m}^k$. We then use this characterization to study one-weight codes in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Alessandro Neri , Paolo Santonastaso , Ferdinando Zullo
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