DocumentCode
1230217
Title
The expansion factor of error-control codes
Author
Khayrallah, Ali S.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Delaware Univ., Newark, DE, USA
Volume
41
Issue
5
fYear
1995
fDate
9/1/1995 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
1452
Lastpage
1457
Abstract
We investigate the expansion factor Δ(C) of an (n, k, d) linear block code. Δ(C) indicates how well the code preserves and expands the distance relations of the input. We relate Δ(C) to n, k, d, the total weight, and the weight distribution, and we find bounds on Δ(C)
Keywords
block codes; error correction codes; linear codes; distance relations; error-control codes; expansion factor; linear block code; total weight; weight distribution; Block codes; Decoding; Hamming distance; Hamming weight; Information theory;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9448
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/18.412688
Filename
412688
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