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Constructions of optimal locally repairable codes (LRCs) achieving Singleton-type bound have been exhaustively investigated in recent years. In this paper, we consider new bounds and constructions of Singleton-optimal LRCs with minmum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Weijun Fang , Bin Chen , Shu-Tao Xia , Fang-Wei Fu

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

Maximum distance separable (MDS) codes are optimal error-correcting codes in the sense that they provide the maximum failure-tolerance for a given number of parity nodes. Suppose that an MDS code with $k$ information nodes and $r=n-k$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-11 Min Ye , Alexander Barg

Linear complementary-dual (LCD for short) codes are linear codes that intersect with their duals trivially. LCD codes have been used in certain communication systems. It is recently found that LCD codes can be applied in cryptography. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Bocong Chen , Hongwei Liu

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

In this work, doubly extended linearized Reed--Solomon codes and triply extended Reed--Solomon codes are generalized. We obtain a general result in which we characterize when a multiply extended code for a general metric attains the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Umberto Martínez-Peñas

Maximum distance separable (MDS) and near maximum distance separable (NMDS) codes have been widely used in various fields such as communication systems, data storage, and quantum codes due to their algebraic properties and excellent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Yujie Zhi , Shixin Zhu

We consider error decoding of locally repairable codes (LRC) and partial MDS (PMDS) codes through interleaved decoding. For a specific class of LRCs we investigate the success probability of interleaved decoding. For PMDS codes we show that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Lukas Holzbaur , Sven Puchinger , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

In this paper, we present improved decoding algorithms for expander-based Tanner codes. We begin by developing a randomized linear-time decoding algorithm that, under the condition that $ \delta d_0 > 2 $, corrects up to $ \alpha n $ errors…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Zhaienhe Zhou , Zeyu Guo

Geometrically local quantum codes, which are error correction codes embedded in $\mathbb{R}^D$ with checks acting only on qubits within a fixed spatial distance, have garnered significant interest. Recently, it has been demonstrated how to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Quinten Eggerickx , Adam Wills , Ting-Chun Lin , Kristiaan De Greve , Min-Hsiu Hsieh

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

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

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

In this note, we give very simple constructions of unique neighbor expander graphs starting from spectral or combinatorial expander graphs of mild expansion. These constructions and their analysis are simple variants of the constructions of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Swastik Kopparty , Noga Ron-Zewi , Shubhangi Saraf

We investigate the coboundary expansion property of tensor product codes, known as product expansion, which plays an important role in recent constructions of good quantum LDPC codes and classical locally testable codes. Prior research has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Gleb Kalachev , Pavel Panteleev

We consider the design of regenerating codes for distributed storage systems that enjoy the property of local, exact and uncoded repair, i.e., (a) upon failure, a node can be regenerated by simply downloading packets from the surviving…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-27 Oktay Olmez , Aditya Ramamoorthy

A construction is presented that allows to produce subspace codes of long length using subspace codes of shorter length in combination with a rank metric code. The subspace distance of the resulting code, called linkage code, is as good as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-12 Heide Gluesing-Luerssen , Carolyn Troha

An erasure channel with a fixed alphabet size $q$, where $q \gg 1$, is studied. It is proved that over any erasure channel (with or without memory), Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) codes achieve the minimum probability of error (assuming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-06-06 Shervan Fashandi , Shahab Oveis Gharan , Amir K. Khandani

We examine an error-correcting coding framework in which each coded symbol is constrained to be a function of a fixed subset of the message symbols. With an eye toward distributed storage applications, we seek to design systematic codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-23 Wael Halbawi , Matthew Thill , Babak Hassibi

In modern storage technologies, symbol-pair codes have emerged as a crucial framework for addressing errors in channels where symbols are read in overlapping pairs to guard against pair errors. A symbol-pair code that meets the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Rongxing Qiu , Weijun Fang