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MDS self-dual codes have good algebraic structure, and their parameters are completely determined by the code length. In recent years, the construction of MDS Euclidean self-dual codes with new lengths has become an important issue in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Weirong Meng , Weijun Fang , Fang-Wei Fu , Haiyan Zhou , Ziyi Gu

Mart{\'\i}nez-Pe{\~n}as and Kschischang (IEEE Trans.\ Inf.\ Theory, 2019) proposed lifted linearized Reed--Solomon codes as suitable codes for error control in multishot network coding. We show how to construct and decode \ac{LILRS} codes.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Hannes Bartz , Sven Puchinger

Linearized Reed--Solomon (LRS) codes are sum-rank-metric codes that generalize both Reed--Solomon and Gabidulin codes. We study vertically and horizontally interleaved LRS (VILRS and HILRS) codes whose codewords consist of a fixed number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Felicitas Hörmann , Hannes Bartz

Algorithms based on multiple decoding attempts of Reed-Solomon (RS) codes have recently attracted new attention. Choosing decoding candidates based on rate-distortion (R-D) theory, as proposed previously by the authors, currently provides…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Phong S. Nguyen , Henry D. Pfister , Krishna R. Narayanan

Codes in the sum-rank metric have various applications in error control for multishot network coding, distributed storage and code-based cryptography. Linearized Reed-Solomon (LRS) codes contain Reed-Solomon and Gabidulin codes as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Felicitas Hörmann , Hannes Bartz , Sven Puchinger

Twisted generalized Reed-Solomon (TGRS) codes, as a flexible extension of classical generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) codes, have attracted significant attention in recent years. In this paper, we construct two classes of LCD codes from the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Ziwei Zhao , Xiaoni DU , Xingbin Qiao

Folded Reed-Solomon (FRS) and univariate multiplicity codes are prominent polynomial codes over finite fields, renowned for achieving list decoding capacity. These codes have found a wide range of applications beyond the traditional scope…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Itzhak Tamo

Lifted Reed-Solomon codes are a natural affine-invariant family of error-correcting codes which generalize Reed-Muller codes. They were known to have efficient local-testing and local-decoding algorithms (comparable to the known algorithms…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Alan Guo , Swastik Kopparty

Reed-Solomon (RS) codes are constructed over a finite field that have been widely employed in storage and communication systems. Many fast encoding/decoding algorithms such as fast Fourier transform (FFT) and modular approach are designed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Wenhao Liu , Zhengyi Jiang , Zhongyi Huang , Linqi Song , Hanxu Hou

We speed up existing decoding algorithms for three code classes in different metrics: interleaved Gabidulin codes in the rank metric, lifted interleaved Gabidulin codes in the subspace metric, and linearized Reed-Solomon codes in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Hannes Bartz , Thomas Jerkovits , Sven Puchinger , Johan Rosenkilde

In coding theory, Reed-Solomon codes are one of the most well-known and widely used classes of error-correcting codes. In this thesis we study and compare two major strategies known for their decoding procedure, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-10 Irene Giacomelli

Traditionally, multi-trial error/erasure decoding of Reed-Solomon (RS) codes is based on Bounded Minimum Distance (BMD) decoders with an erasure option. Such decoders have error/erasure tradeoff factor L=2, which means that an error is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Christian Senger , Vladimir R. Sidorenko , Martin Bossert , Victor V. Zyablov

For the majority of the applications of Reed-Solomon (RS) codes, hard decision decoding is based on syndromes. Recently, there has been renewed interest in decoding RS codes without using syndromes. In this paper, we investigate the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-05-08 Ning Chen , Zhiyuan Yan

Generalized Reed-Solomon and extended generalized Reed-Solomon (abbreviation to GRS and EGRS) codes are the most well-known family of MDS codes with wide applications in coding theory and practice. Let $\mathbb{F}_q$ be the $q$ elements…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Canze Zhu

An iterated refinement procedure for the Guruswami--Sudan list decoding algorithm for Generalised Reed--Solomon codes based on Alekhnovich's module minimisation is proposed. The method is parametrisable and allows variants of the usual list…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-31 Johan Sebastian Rosenkilde Nielsen , Alexander Zeh

Tensor codes are a generalisation of matrix codes. Such codes are defined as subspaces of order-r tensors for which the ambient space is endowed with the tensor-rank as a metric. A class of these codes was introduced by Roth, who also…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Eimear Byrne , Alain Couvreur , Lucien François

Motivated by recent developments in coding theory, particular in list-decoding, we introduce a new error model which we call semi-adversarial errors. This error model bridges between fully random errors and fully adversarial errors by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Joshua Brakensiek , Yeyuan Chen , Manik Dhar , Zihan Zhang

The interpolation based algebraic decoding for Reed-Solomon (RS) codes can correct errors beyond half of the code's minimum Hamming distance. Using soft information, the algebraic soft decoding (ASD) further improves the decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-18 Jiongyue Xing , Li Chen , Martin Bossert

In this article we count the number of generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) codes of dimension k and length n, including the codes coming from a non-degenerate conic plus nucleus. We compare our results with known formulae for the number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Peter Beelen , David Glynn , Tom Høholdt , Krishna Kaipa

In this paper, we introduce a novel explicit family of subcodes of Reed-Solomon (RS) codes that efficiently achieve list decoding capacity with a constant output list size. Our approach builds upon the idea of large linear subcodes of RS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Amit Berman , Yaron Shany , Itzhak Tamo