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Near MDS (NMDS) codes are closely related to interesting objects in finite geometry and have nice applications in combinatorics and cryptography. But there are many unsolved problems about construction of NMDS codes. In this paper, by using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Shanqi Pang , Chaomeng Zhang , Mengqian Chen , Miaomiao Zhang

Maximum distance separable (MDS) codes have significant combinatorial and cryptographic applications due to their certain optimality. Generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) codes are the most prominent MDS codes. Twisted generalized Reed-Solomon…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Chun'e Zhao , Wenping Ma , Tongjiang Yan , Yuhua Sun

Over a finite field $\mathbb{F}_{q^m}$, the evaluation of skew polynomials is intimately related to the evaluation of linearized polynomials. This connection allows one to relate the concept of polynomial independence defined for skew…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Siyu Liu , Felice Manganiello , Frank R. Kschischang

Maximum-distance separable (MDS) convolutional codes form an optimal family of convolutional codes, the study of which is of great importance. There are very few general algebraic constructions of MDS convolutional codes. In this paper, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-24 Chin Hei Chan , Maosheng Xiong

Quantum maximal-distance-separable (MDS) codes form an important class of quantum codes. To get $q$-ary quantum MDS codes, it suffices to find linear MDS codes $C$ over $\mathbb{F}_{q^2}$ satisfying $C^{\perp_H}\subseteq C$ by the Hermitian…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-12 Bocong Chen , San Ling , Guanghui Zhang

Skew polynomial rings provide a fundamental example of noncommutative principal ideal domains. Special quotients of these rings yield matrix algebras that play a central role in the theory of rank-metric codes. Recent breakthroughs have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-10 José Gómez-Torrecillas , F. J. Lobillo , Gabriel Navarro , Paolo Santonastaso

A linear code with parameters $[n, k, n-k+1]$ is called a maximum distance separable (MDS for short) code. A linear code with parameters $[n, k, n-k]$ is said to be almost maximum distance separable (AMDS for short). A linear code is said…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Zhonghua Sun , Cunsheng Ding

Maximum-distance-separable (MDS) codes are a class of erasure codes that are widely adopted to enhance the reliability of distributed storage systems (DSS). In (n, k) MDS coded DSS, the original data are stored into n distributed nodes in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-16 Sheng Guan , Haibin Kan , Xin Wang

In this paper we study a special type of quasi-cyclic (QC) codes called skew QC codes. This set of codes is constructed using a non-commutative ring called the skew polynomial rings $F[x;\theta ]$. After a brief description of the skew…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-09-16 Taher Abualrub , Ali Ghrayeb , Nuh Aydin , Irfan Siap

New families of maximum distance separable (MDS) codes are constructed from elliptic curves by exploiting their group structures. In contrast to classical constructions based on divisors supported at a single rational point, the proposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Puyin Wang , Wei Liu , Jinquan Luo , Dengxin Zhai

In this paper, we give algorithms and methods of construction of self-dual codes over finite fields using orthogonal matrices. Randomization in the orthogonal group, and code extension are the main tools. Some optimal, almost MDS, and MDS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Minjia Shi , Lin Sok , Patrick Solé

This paper considers the problem of designing maximum distance separable (MDS) codes over small fields with constraints on the support of their generator matrices. For any given $m\times n$ binary matrix $M$, the GM-MDS conjecture, due to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-15 Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Alex Sprintson

Maximum distance separable (MDS) are constructed to required specifications. The codes are explicitly given over finite fields with efficient encoding and decoding algorithms. Series of such codes over finite fields with ratio of distance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Ted Hurley , Donny Hurley , Barry Hurley

A large class of MDS linear codes is constructed. These codes are endowed with an efficient decoding algorithm. Both the definition of the codes and the design of their decoding algorithm only require from Linear Algebra methods, making…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-02 José Gómez-Torrecillas , Gabriel Navarro , José Patricio Sánchez-Hernández

We introduce circulant matrices that capture the structure of a skew-polynomial ring F[x;\theta] modulo the left ideal generated by a polynomial of the type x^n-a. This allows us to develop an approach to skew-constacyclic codes based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-09-30 Neville Fogarty , Heide Gluesing-Luerssen

Maximum distance separable (MDS) codes and near MDS (NMDS) codes are of particular interest in coding theory due to their optimal error-correcting capabilities and wide applications in communication, cryptography, and storage systems. A…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yang Li , Zhenliang Lu , San Ling , Kwok-Yan Lam

Maximum Distance Profile (MDP) convolutional codes are an important class of channel codes due to their maximal delay-constrained error correction capabilities. The design of MDP codes has attracted significant attention from the research…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Sakshi Dang , Julia Lieb , Okko Makkonen , Pedro Soto , Alex Sprintson

MDS self-dual codes over finite fields have attracted a lot of attention in recent years by their theoretical interests in coding theory and applications in cryptography and combinatorics. In this paper we present a series of MDS self-dual…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Aixian Zhang , Keqin Feng

MDS self-dual codes have nice algebraic structures and are uniquely determined by lengths. Recently, the construction of MDS self-dual codes of new lengths has become an important and hot issue in coding theory. In this paper, we develop…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Ruhao Wan , Yang Li , Shixin Zhu

Let $\mathbb{F}_q$ be a finite field with $q$ elements and denote by $\theta : \mathbb{F}_q\to\mathbb{F}_q$ an automorphism of $\mathbb{F}_q$. In this paper, we deal with skew constacyclic codes, that is, linear codes of $\mathbb{F}_q^n$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Alexis E. Almendras Valdebenito , Andrea Luigi Tironi