Title : 
On the covering radius of subcodes of a code
         
        
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Math. & Stat., Wright State Univ., Dayton, OH, USA
         
        
        
        
        
            fDate : 
11/1/1991 12:00:00 AM
         
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Let C be a binary linear code with covering radius R , and C0 a subcode of C of codimension i. An upper bound is obtained for the covering radius of C 0 in terms of R and i. When C 0 ={0}, the bound becomes the sphere covering bound for R 
         
        
            Keywords : 
codes; binary linear code; codimension; covering radius; sphere covering bound; subcodes; upper bound; Equations; Linear code; Parity check codes; Upper bound;
         
        
        
            Journal_Title : 
Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on