Title :
A new construction for covering codes
Author :
Honkala, I.S. ; Hamalainen, Heikki O.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Math., Turku Univ., Finland
fDate :
9/1/1988 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A novel method for constructing normal binary nonlinear covering codes is presented. The construction improves several upper bounds on K(n,R), the minimum cardinality of a binary code of length n and covering radius R
Keywords :
boundary-value problems; codes; encoding; construction; normal binary nonlinear covering codes; upper bounds; Binary codes; Error correction codes; Mathematics; Upper bound;
Journal_Title :
Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
