• DocumentCode
    1319312
  • Title

    Bounds on the weight hierarchy of generalized concatenated codes

  • Author

    Agabio, Paolo ; Biglieri, Ezio

  • Author_Institution
    Dipartimento di Elettronica, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
  • Volume
    42
  • Issue
    5
  • fYear
    1996
  • fDate
    9/1/1996 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1635
  • Lastpage
    1640
  • Abstract
    We determine upper and lower bounds to the generalized Hamming weights of generalized concatenated codes. They are derived from the generalized Hamming weights of the outer codes and certain properties of the inner code and its partitions
  • Keywords
    block codes; concatenated codes; linear codes; generalized Hamming weights; generalized concatenated codes; inner code; linear block codes; lower bounds; outer codes; upper bounds; weight hierarchy; Block codes; Concatenated codes; Decoding; Hamming distance; Hamming weight; Linear code; Parallel architectures; Product codes; Upper bound;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9448
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/18.532915
  • Filename
    532915