Title : 
Optimal Partitioned Cyclic Difference Packings for Frequency Hopping and Code Synchronization
         
        
            Author : 
Chee, Yeow Meng ; Ling, Alan C H ; Yin, Jianxing
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Div. of Math. Sci., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore, Singapore
         
        
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Optimal partitioned cyclic difference packings (PCDPs) are shown to give rise to optimal frequency-hopping sequences and optimal comma-free codes. New constructions for PCDPs, based on almost difference sets and cyclic difference matrices, are given. These produce new infinite families of optimal PCDPs (and hence optimal frequency-hopping sequences and optimal comma-free codes). The existence problem for optimal PCDPs in BBZ3m, with m base blocks of size three, is also solved for all m ≠ 8,16 mod 24.
         
        
            Keywords : 
cyclic codes; frequency hop communication; synchronisation; code synchronization; cyclic difference matrices; optimal PCDP construction; optimal comma-free codes; optimal frequency hopping sequences; optimal partitioned cyclic difference packings; Correlation; Decision support systems; Delta modulation; Frequency synchronization; Indexes; Redundancy; Synchronization; Almost difference sets; code synchronization; comma-free codes; cyclic difference matrices; frequency-hopping sequence (FHS); partitioned difference packings;
         
        
        
            Journal_Title : 
Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
         
        
        
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/TIT.2010.2070530