A note on bounds for q-ary covering codes

被引:10
作者
Bhandari, MC
Durairajan, C
机构
[1] Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology
关键词
covering code; covering radius; normal codes; strongly seminormal codes; q-ary codes;
D O I
10.1109/18.532916
中图分类号
TP [自动化技术、计算机技术];
学科分类号
0812 ;
摘要
Two strongly seminormal codes over Z(5) are constructed to prove a conjecture of Ostergard. It is shown that a result of Honkala on (k, t)-subnormal codes holds also under weaker assumptions. A lower bound and an upper hound on K-q(n, R), the minimal, cardinality of a q-ary code of length n with covering radius R are obtained. These give improvements in seven upper hounds and twelve lower bounds by Ostergard for K-q(n, R) for q = 3, 4, and 5.
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页码:1640 / 1642
页数:3
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