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One popular approach to soft-decision decoding of Reed-Solomon (RS) codes is based on using multiple trials of a simple RS decoding algorithm in combination with erasing or flipping a set of symbols or bits in each trial. This paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Phong S. Nguyen , Henry D. Pfister , Krishna R. Narayanan

This article introduces Generalized Hyperderivative Reed-Solomon codes (GHRS codes), which generalize NRT Reed-Solomon codes. Its main results are as follows: 1) every GHRS code is MDS, 2) the dual of a GHRS code is also an GHRS code, 3)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Mahir Bilen Can , Benjamin Horowitz

Because of their importance in applications and their quite simple definition, Reed-Solomon codes can be explained in any introductory course on coding theory. However, decoding algorithms for Reed-Solomon codes are far from being simple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Maria Bras-Amorós

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

Generalized Reed-Solomon (RS) codes are a common choice for efficient, reliable error correction in memory and communications systems. These codes add $2t$ extra parity symbols to a block of memory, and can efficiently and reliably correct…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Mike Hamburg , Eric Linstadt , Danny Moore , Thomas Vogelsang

Maximum distance separable (MDS) codes are optimal where the minimum distance cannot be improved for a given length and code size. Twisted Reed-Solomon codes over finite fields were introduced in 2017, which are generalization of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Hongwei Liu , Shengwei Liu

Maximum distance separable (MDS) codes are considered optimal because the minimum distance cannot be improved for a given length and code size. The most prominent MDS codes are likely the generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) codes. In 1989, Roth…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Shengwei Liu , Hongwei Liu , Bocong Chen

Twisted generalized Reed-Solomon (TGRS) codes constitute an interesting family of evaluation codes, containing a large class of maximum distance separable codes non-equivalent to generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) ones. Moreover, the Schur…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Alain Couvreur , Rakhi Pratihar , Nihan Tanısalı , Ilaria Zappatore

In this paper, we not only give the parity check matrix of the $[1,0]$-twisted generalized Reed-Solomon (in short, TGRS) code, but also determine the weight distribution. Especially, we show that the $[1,0]$-TGRS code is not GRS or EGRS.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Canze Zhu , Qunying Liao

In this paper we provide a detailed description of Reed-Solomon (RS) codes, the most important algorithms for decoding them, and their use in concatenated coding systems for space applications. In the current literature there is scattered…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Polykarpos Thomadakis , Antonios Argyriou

This paper presents a method to merge Generalized Minimum Distance decoding of Reed-Solomon codes with the extended Euclidean algorithm. By merge, we mean that the steps taken to perform the Generalized Minimum Distance decoding are similar…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-10-19 Sabine Kampf , Martin Bossert

Reed-Solomon (RS) codes are among the most ubiquitous codes due to their good parameters as well as efficient encoding and decoding procedures. However, RS codes suffer from having a fixed length. In many applications where the length is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Fernando Hernando , Kyle Marshall , Michael E. O'Sullivan

A general class of polynomial remainder codes is considered. Such codes are very flexible in rate and length and include Reed-Solomon codes as a special case. As an extension of previous work, two joint error-and-erasure decoding approaches…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-27 Jiun-Hung Yu

Self-dual MDS and NMDS codes over finite fields are linear codes with significant combinatorial and cryptographic applications. In this paper, firstly, we investigate the duality properties of generalized twisted Reed-Solomon (abbreviated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Guanmin Guo , Ruihu Li , Yang Liu , Hao Song

Recently, codes in the sum-rank metric attracted attention due to several applications in e.g. multishot network coding, distributed storage and quantum-resistant cryptography. The sum-rank analogs of Reed-Solomon and Gabidulin codes are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Felicitas Hörmann , Hannes Bartz

Assuming that we have a soft-decision list decoding algorithm of a linear code, a new hard-decision list decoding algorithm of its repeated code is proposed in this article. Although repeated codes are not used for encoding data, due to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Fernando Hernando , Michael O'Sullivan , Diego Ruano

The sum-rank metric is the mixture of the Hamming and rank metrics. The sum-rank metric found its application in network coding, locally repairable codes, space-time coding, and quantum-resistant cryptography. Linearized Reed-Solomon (LRS)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Kuo Shang , Chen Yuan , Ruiqi Zhu

Constructing Reed-Solomon (RS) codes that can correct insertion and deletion (ins-del) errors has been the focus of several recent studies. However, efficient decoding algorithms for such codes have received less attention and remain a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Shubhransh Singhvi

In this paper, we prove that the sub-field images of generalized Reed-Solomon (RS) codes can achieve the symmetric capacity of p-ary memoryless channels. Unlike the totally random linear code ensemble, as a class of maximum distance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Xiangping Zheng , Xiao Ma

In this work it is shown that locally repairable codes (LRCs) can be list-decoded efficiently beyond the Johnson radius for a large range of parameters by utilizing the local error-correction capabilities. The corresponding decoding radius…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Lukas Holzbaur , Sven Puchinger , Antonia Wachter-Zeh