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We introduce a new family of rank metric codes: Low Rank Parity Check codes (LRPC), for which we propose an efficient probabilistic decoding algorithm. This family of codes can be seen as the equivalent of classical LDPC codes for the rank…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Nicolas Aragon , Philippe Gaborit , Adrien Hauteville , Olivier Ruatta , Gilles Zémor

We present a new family of maximum rank distance (MRD) codes. The new class contains codes that are neither equivalent to a generalised Gabidulin nor to a twisted Gabidulin code, the only two known general constructions of linear MRD codes.

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-07 Sven Puchinger , Johan Rosenkilde né Nielsen , John Sheekey

The paper has a threefold purpose. The first purpose is to present an explicit description of expanded cyclic codes defined in $\GF(q^m)$. The proposed explicit construction of expanded generator matrix and expanded parity check matrix…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-07-08 Yingquan Wu

Rank-metric codes, defined as sets of matrices over a finite field with the rank distance, have gained significant attention due to their applications in network coding and connections to diverse mathematical areas. Initially studied by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Alessandro Neri , Ferdinando Zullo

We investigate punctured maximum rank distance codes in cyclic models for bilinear forms of finite vector spaces. In each of these models we consider an infinite family of linear maximum rank distance codes obtained by puncturing…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-12 Bence Csajbók , Alessandro Siciliano

Rank-metric codes were studied by E. Gabidulin in 1985 after a brief introduction by Delsarte in 1978 as an equivalent of Reed-Solomon codes, but based on linearized polynomials. They have found applications in many areas, including linear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Ousmane Ndiaye , Peter Arnaud Kidoudou , Hervé Tale Kalachi

Reducible codes for the rank metric were introduced for cryptographic purposes. They have fast encoding and decoding algorithms, include maximum rank distance (MRD) codes and can correct many rank errors beyond half of their minimum rank…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-07 Umberto Martínez-Peñas

The distance profiles of linear block codes can be employed to design variational coding scheme for encoding message with variational length and getting lower decoding error probability by large minimum Hamming distance. %, e.g. the design…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-06-05 Xiaogang Liu , Yuan Luo , Kenneth W. Shum

Most well-known constructions of $(N \times n, q^{Nk}, d)$ maximum rank distance (MRD) codes rely on the arithmetic of $\mathbb{F}_{q^N}$, whose increasing complexity with larger $N$ hinders parameter selection and practical implementation.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Zhe Zhai , Sheng Jin , Qifu Tyler Sun , Zongpeng Li

It is an important task to construct quantum maximum-distance-separable (MDS) codes with good parameters. In the present paper, we provide six new classes of q-ary quantum MDS codes by using generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) codes and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Weijun Fang , Fang-Wei Fu

In this article, we investigate the decoding of the rank metric Reed--Muller codes introduced by Augot, Couvreur, Lavauzelle and Neri in 2021. These codes are defined from Abelian Galois extensions extending the construction of Gabidulin…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Alain Couvreur , Rakhi Pratihar

For a growing number of applications such as cellular, peer-to-peer, and sensor networks, efficient error-free transmission of data through a network is essential. Toward this end, K\"{o}tter and Kschischang propose the use of subspace…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-03 Katherine Morrison

The task of constructing infinite families of self-dual codes with unbounded lengths and minimum distances exhibiting square-root lower bounds is extremely challenging, especially when it comes to cyclic codes. Recently, the first infinite…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Xiaoqiang Wang , Liuyi Li , Yansheng Wu , Dabin Zheng , Shuxian Lu

This preprint is of a chapter to appear in {\it Combinatorics and finite fields: Difference sets, polynomials, pseudorandomness and applications. Radon Series on Computational and Applied Mathematics}, K.-U. Schmidt and A. Winterhof (eds.).…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-04-12 John Sheekey

Constant-dimension codes (CDCs) have been investigated for noncoherent error correction in random network coding. The maximum cardinality of CDCs with given minimum distance and how to construct optimal CDCs are both open problems, although…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-03-17 Maximilien Gadouleau , Zhiyuan Yan

Gabidulin codes are the rank-metric analogs of Reed-Solomon codes and have a major role in practical error control for network coding. This paper presents new encoding and decoding algorithms for Gabidulin codes based on low-complexity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Danilo Silva , Frank R. Kschischang

Products of MDS codes are of major practical importance; for a recent example, they are used in Data Availability Sampling (DAS) in blockchain networks such as Celestia and as part of the Ethereum roadmap. This motivates us to consider…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Amit Berman , Yaron Shany , Itzhak Tamo

Quantum error correction (QEC) is critical for practical realization of fault-tolerant quantum computing, and recently proposed families of quantum low-density parity-check (QLDPC) code are prime candidates for advanced QEC hardware…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Nithin Raveendran , David Declercq , Bane Vasić

Gabidulin codes can be seen as the rank-metric equivalent of Reed-Solomon codes. It was recently proven, using subspace polynomials, that Gabidulin codes cannot be list decoded beyond the so-called Johnson radius. In another result, cyclic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-17 Netanel Raviv , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

In this work we present a new criterion to check if a given rank-metric code is a maximum rank distance (MRD) code. Moreover, we derive a criterion to check if a given MRD code is a generalized Gabidulin code. We then use these results to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-04 Anna-Lena Horlemann-Trautmann , Kyle Marshall