Title :
On the maximum number of systematically-encoded information bits in the Varshamov-Tenengol´ts codes and the Constantin-Rao codes
Author :
Abdel-Ghaffar, Khaled A S ; Ferreira, Hendrik C.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., Davis, CA, USA
fDate :
29 Jun-4 Jul 1997
Abstract :
Although Constantin-Rao (1979) codes are at least as large as Varshamov-Tenengol´ts (1965) codes of the same length, we show that CR codes cannot systematically encode more bits than VT codes
Keywords :
binary sequences; error correction codes; group theory; Constantin-Rao codes; Varshamov-Tenengol´ts codes; binary code; code length; decoding; error correction codes; finite Abelian group; maximum systematically-encoded information bits; Africa; Binary codes; Chromium; Cybernetics; Decoding; Error correction codes; Laboratories;
Conference_Titel :
Information Theory. 1997. Proceedings., 1997 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Ulm
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3956-8
DOI :
10.1109/ISIT.1997.613392
