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In this work, maximum sum-rank distance (MSRD) codes and linearized Reed-Solomon codes are extended to finite chain rings. It is proven that linearized Reed-Solomon codes are MSRD over finite chain rings, extending the known result for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Umberto Martínez-Peñas , Sven Puchinger

Motivated by applications in storage systems and property testing, we study data stream algorithms for local testing and tolerant testing of codes. Ideally, we would like to know whether there exist asymptotically good codes that can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-04-27 Atri Rudra , Steve Uurtamo

The GM-MDS theorem, conjectured by Dau-Song-Dong-Yuen and proved by Lovett and Yildiz-Hassibi, shows that the generator matrices of Reed-Solomon codes can attain every possible configuration of zeros for an MDS code. The recently emerging…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Joshua Brakensiek , Manik Dhar , Sivakanth Gopi

The performance of Reed--Solomon codes (RS codes, for short) in the presence of insertion and deletion errors has attracted growing attention in recent literature. In this work, we further study this intriguing mathematical problem,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Peter Beelen , Roni Con , Anina Gruica , Maria Montanucci , Eitan Yaakobi

In this paper we present a concrete algebraic construction of a novel class of convolutional codes. These codes are built upon generalized Vandermonde matrices and therefore can be seen as a natural extension of Reed-Solomon block codes to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Gianira N. Alfarano , Diego Napp , Alessandro Neri , Verónica Requena

Locally repairable codes (LRCs) are error correcting codes used in distributed data storage. Besides a global level, they enable errors to be corrected locally, reducing the need for communication between storage nodes. There is a close…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Antti Pöllänen , Thomas Westerbäck , Ragnar Freij-Hollanti , Camilla Hollanti

Establishing the complexity of {\em Bounded Distance Decoding} for Reed-Solomon codes is a fundamental open problem in coding theory, explicitly asked by Guruswami and Vardy (IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2005). The problem is motivated by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-10 Venkata Gandikota , Badih Ghazi , Elena Grigorescu

This paper contributes to maximum distance separable (MDS) and near MDS (NMDS) properties of the extended generalized twisted Reed-Solomon (TGRS) codes. Firstly, a family of extended TGRS (ETGRS) are constructed by appending three columns…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Yanli Wang , Yanxin Chen , Tongjiang Yan

We derive a lower bound on the amount of information accessed to repair failed nodes within a single rack from any number of helper racks in the rack-aware storage model that allows collective information processing in the nodes that share…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Jiaojiao Wang , Zitan Chen

We study uniquely decodable codes and list decodable codes in the high-noise regime, specifically codes that are uniquely decodable from $\frac{1-\varepsilon}{2}$ fraction of errors and list decodable from $1-\varepsilon$ fraction of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Xin Li , Songtao Mao

In this paper we study constrained subspace approximation problem. Given a set of $n$ points $\{a_1,\ldots,a_n\}$ in $\mathbb{R}^d$, the goal of the {\em subspace approximation} problem is to find a $k$ dimensional subspace that best…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Aditya Bhaskara , Sepideh Mahabadi , Madhusudhan Reddy Pittu , Ali Vakilian , David P. Woodruff

Insertion-deletion codes (insdel codes for short) play an important role in synchronization error correction. The higher the minimum insdel distance, the more insdel errors the code can correct. Haeupler and Shahrasbi established the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Bocong Chen , Guanghui Zhang

Both horizontal interleaving as well as the sum-rank metric are currently attractive topics in the field of code-based cryptography, as they could mitigate the problem of large key sizes. In contrast to vertical interleaving, where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Felicitas Hörmann , Hannes Bartz

Fractional repetition (FR) codes is a family of codes for distributed storage systems (DSS) that allow uncoded exact repairs with minimum repair bandwidth. In this work, we consider a bound on the maximum amount of data that can be stored…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-22 Natalia Silberstein , Tuvi Etzion

We present a construction of subspace codes along with an efficient algorithm for list decoding from both insertions and deletions, handling an information-theoretically maximum fraction of these with polynomially small rate. Our…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-03 Venkatesan Guruswami , Srivatsan Narayanan , Carol Wang

A code over a finite alphabet is called locally recoverable (LRC) if every symbol in the encoding is a function of a small number (at most $r$) other symbols. We present a family of LRC codes that attain the maximum possible value of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-14 Itzhak Tamo , Alexander Barg

We describe a novel extension of subspace codes for noncoherent networks, suitable for use when the network is viewed as a communication system that introduces both dimension and symbol errors. We show that when symbol erasures occur in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-25 Vitaly Skachek , Olgica Milenkovic , Angelia Nedic

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

The performance of algebraic soft-decision decoding of Reed-Solomon codes using bit-level soft information is investigated. Optimal multiplicity assignment strategies of algebraic soft-decision decoding with infinite cost are first studied…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-08-05 Jing Jiang , Krishna R. Narayanan

Maximum distance separable (MDS) and almost maximum distance separable (AMDS) codes have been widely used in various fields such as communication systems, data storage, and quantum codes because of their algebraic properties and excellent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Meiying Zhang , Shudi Yang , Yanbin Zheng