DocumentCode
851176
Title
On the covering radius of subcodes of a code
Author
Hou, Xiang-Dong
Author_Institution
Dept. of Math. & Stat., Wright State Univ., Dayton, OH, USA
Volume
37
Issue
6
fYear
1991
fDate
11/1/1991 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
1706
Lastpage
1707
Abstract
Let C be a binary linear code with covering radius R , and C 0 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;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9448
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/18.104338
Filename
104338
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