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31 May 2023

We recall a classic lower bound on the minimum Hamming distance of constacyclic codes over finite fields, analogous to the well-known BCH bound for cyclic codes. This BCH-like bound serves as a foundation for proposing some minimum-distance lower bou...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Algebraic Coding Theory and Cryptography)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,488 Views
20 Pages

16 August 2025

We consider mixed Hamming packings, addressing the maximal cardinality of codes with a minimum codeword Hamming distance. We do not rely on any algebraic structure of the alphabets. We extend known-integer linear programming models of the problem to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
87 Views
45 Pages

5 November 2026

Given a linear code C over Fq with generator matrix G=[X∣Z], we study the nonstandard two-coordinate symplectic extension G¯(u,v)=[X∣Xu∣Z∣Zv] and its effects on the symplectic hull and minimum symplectic distance. The ext...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,670 Views
17 Pages

17 December 2020

Short or moderate-length non-binary low-density parity-check (NB-LDPC) codes have the potential applications in future low latency and high-reliability communication thanks to the strong error correction capability and parallel decoding. Because of t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Low-Latency Communications: Protocols, Applications, Challenges, and Opportunities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,721 Views
39 Pages

8 January 2020

In this paper, we obtain upper bounds on the minimum distance for turbo codes using fourth degree permutation polynomial (4-PP) interleavers of a specific interleaver length and classical turbo codes of nominal 1/3 coding rate, with two recursive sys...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,712 Views
15 Pages

To enhance the reliability of UAV-to-Ground data transmission in SC-FDE, this study proposes a combined MMSE equalization and LDPC-RS concatenated code approach, utilizing source redundancy to mitigate errors in low-elevation G2A communication. The p...

(This article belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,874 Views
14 Pages

14 March 2022

Finger vein recognition has drawn increasing attention as one of the most popular and promising biometrics due to its high distinguishing ability, security, and non-invasive procedure. The main idea of traditional schemes is to directly extract featu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Biometric Systems for Personal Human Recognition)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,645 Views
14 Pages

Role of the Product λ′(0)ρ′(1) in Determining LDPC Code Performance

  • Francesca Vatta,
  • Fulvio Babich,
  • Flavio Ellero,
  • Matteo Noschese and ,
  • Giulia Buttazzoni and
  • Massimiliano Comisso
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

10 December 2019

The objective of this work is to analyze the importance of the product λ ′ ( 0 ) ρ ′ ( 1 ) in determining low density parity check (LDPC) code performance, as far as its influence on the weight distribution func...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,572 Views
11 Pages

Some Results on Self-Complementary Linear Codes

  • Maria Pashinska-Gadzheva,
  • Iliya Bouyukliev and
  • Valentin Bakoev

14 December 2023

Binary codes have a special place in coding theory since they are one of the most commonly used in practice. There are classes of codes specific only to the binary case. One such class is self-complementary codes. Self-complementary linear codes are...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Theory and Application of Algebraic Combinatorics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,986 Views
26 Pages

5 March 2025

In this paper, we generalize the construction of locally repairable codes (LRCs) by leveraging pairwise balanced designs (PBDs) and balanced incomplete block designs (BIBDs) to construct codes with nonuniform locality or nonuniform availability. Our...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Coding Theory and Its Applications)
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  • Open Access
1,223 Views
19 Pages

24 April 2025

Symbol-pair codes are a class of block codes with symbol-pair metrics designed to protect against pair errors that may occur in high-density data storage systems. Maximum distance separable (MDS) symbol-pair codes are optimal in the sense that they c...

(This article belongs to the Section Algebra and Number Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,743 Views
13 Pages

9 September 2025

The code distance is a critical parameter of quantum stabilizer codes (QSCs), and determining it—whether exactly or approximately—is known to be an NP-complete problem. However, its upper bound can be determined efficiently by some method...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Error Correction and Fault-Tolerance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,912 Views
14 Pages

A New Class of Q-Ary Codes for the McEliece Cryptosystem

  • Jürgen Freudenberger and
  • Johann-Philipp Thiers

The McEliece cryptosystem is a promising candidate for post-quantum public-key encryption. In this work, we propose q-ary codes over Gaussian integers for the McEliece system and a new channel model. With this one Mannheim error channel, errors are l...

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  • Open Access
659 Views
28 Pages

15 April 2026

The rapid development of machine learning, large language models, and related technologies has greatly increased the demand for data storage capacity. Therefore, the role of distributed storage systems in such applications has become more prominent....

(This article belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,396 Views
17 Pages

17 September 2023

We study the probability of an undetected error for general q-ary codes. We give upper and lower bounds on this quantity, by the Linear Programming and the Polynomial methods, as a function of the length, size, and minimum distance. Sharper bounds ar...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Discrete Math in Coding Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,408 Views
18 Pages

The code-based McEliece and Niederreiter cryptosystems are promising candidates for post-quantum public-key encryption. Recently, q-ary concatenated codes over Gaussian integers were proposed for the McEliece cryptosystem, together with the one-Mannh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,239 Views
13 Pages

19 November 2018

In this paper, new conditions on parameters in difference sets are derived to satisfy symplectic inner product, and new constructions of quantum stabilizer codes are proposed from the conditions. The conversion of the difference sets into parity-chec...

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  • Open Access
860 Views
42 Pages

7 August 2026

The Hasse derivative image of a repeated-root cyclic code is typically non-cyclic. This prevents a direct ideal-theoretic calculation of derivative-twisted intersections and first leads to cyclic containers and two-sided bounds. This paper shows that...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Discrete Mathematics in Coding Theory)
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  • Open Access

13 November 2026

We study symplectic Galois-LCD codes over the finite non-chain ring R=Fq+vFq, where v2=v. Using the constituent decomposition of R, we characterize their symplectic Galois duals and hulls and obtain a generator-matrix criterion for free codes. For Gr...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Algebra and Logic)
  • Article
  • Open Access
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19 Pages

Maximizing Inter-Marker Distance in Square Fiducial Marker Dictionary Generation

  • Víctor Quesada Conejero,
  • Rafael Muñoz-Salinas,
  • Francisco J. Romero-Ramirez and
  • Sergio Garrido-Jurado

29 October 2026

Square fiducial markers provide a robust and efficient way to establish visual references in camera localization tasks, combining reliable detection with unique identification through an embedded binary code. The robustness of these systems depends l...

(This article belongs to the Section Visualization and Computer Graphics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,788 Views
18 Pages

Permutation-Based Block Code for Short Packet Communication Systems

  • Emil Faure,
  • Anatoly Shcherba,
  • Mykola Makhynko,
  • Bohdan Stupka and ,
  • Joanna Nikodem and
  • Ruslan Shevchuk
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

19 July 2022

This paper presents an approach to the construction of block error-correcting code for data transmission systems with short packets. The need for this is driven by the necessity of information interaction between objects of machine-type communication...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging IT Security Technologies in the Computer Systems: Network Security and Cryptography)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,612 Views
15 Pages

Lower Bounds for Quasi-Cyclic Codes and New Binary Quantum Codes

  • Yiting Liu,
  • Chaofeng Guan,
  • Chao Du and
  • Zhi Ma

3 March 2023

This paper considers three kinds of quasi-cyclic codes of index two with one generator or two generators and their applications in quantum code construction. In accordance with the algebraic structure of linear codes, we determine the lower bounds of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,956 Views
17 Pages

7 April 2016

We present a simple computational approach to assigning a measure of complexity and information/entropy to families of natural languages, based on syntactic parameters and the theory of error correcting codes. We associate to each language a binary s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Differential Geometrical Theory of Statistics)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,927 Views
14 Pages

3 September 2020

It is an important issue to search for self-orthogonal codes for construction of quantum codes by CSS construction (Calderbank-Sho-Steane codes); in quantum error correction, CSS codes are a special type of stabilizer codes constructed from classical...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Codes, Designs, Cryptography and Optimization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,509 Views
9 Pages

25 August 2018

In this paper, a new family of binary LRCs (BLRCs) with locality 2 and uneven availabilities for hot data is proposed, which has a high information symbol availability and low parity symbol availabilities for the local repair of distributed storage s...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,498 Views
9 Pages

3 June 2021

Quantum error correcting codes (QECCs) play an important role in preventing quantum information decoherence. Good quantum stabilizer codes were constructed by classical error correcting codes. In this paper, Bose–Chaudhuri–Hocquenghem (BCH) codes ove...

(This article belongs to the Section Quantum Information)
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  • Article
  • Open Access

From Optimal Linear Codes to Entanglement-Assisted Quantum Codes

  • Stefka Bouyuklieva and
  • Mariya Dzhumalieva-Stoeva
Axioms2026, 15(11), 848;https://doi.org/10.3390/axioms15110848 
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13 November 2026

The hull of a linear code, defined as its intersection with its dual code, plays an important role in the construction of entanglement-assisted quantum error-correcting codes. In particular, the hull dimension determines both the number of encoded qu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Graph Invariants and Their Applications)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,392 Views
11 Pages

14 November 2024

In recent years, network coding has attracted widespread attention due to its important role in digital communication and network security. Among these, cyclic subspace codes have very important applications in error correction and rectification in r...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,750 Views
23 Pages

Distributed Goppa-Coded Generalized Spatial Modulation: Optimized Design and Performance Study

  • Chunli Zhao,
  • Fengfan Yang,
  • Daniel Kariuki Waweru,
  • Chen Chen and ,
  • Hongjun Xu and
  • Lin Luo
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

The distributed Goppa-coded generalized spatial modulation (DGC-GSM) scheme with the source, relay, and destination in cooperative communications is proposed, where the source and relay adopt different Goppa codes. Goppa codes have many advantages su...

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  • Open Access
3,280 Views
13 Pages

24 October 2018

Locally repairable codes (LRCs) are a new family of erasure codes used in distributed storage systems which have attracted a great deal of interest in recent years. For an [ n , k , d ] linear code, if a code symbol can be repaired by t disjo...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory and Methodology)
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  • Open Access
498 Views
83 Pages

8 September 2026

Solomonoff induction mixes all computable explanations with description-length weights, but it is incomputable. This theory-and-position paper argues that practical approximation must be category-native: one should first declare the mathematical cate...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,257 Views
16 Pages

Impact of Acetylation on the Behaviour of Single-Dowel Timber Connections

  • Karin Forsman,
  • Erik Serrano and
  • Henrik Danielsson

2 February 2024

This paper presents an experimental study where the mechanical behaviour of single-dowel timber connections made of acetylated Scots pine is compared with the behaviour of connections made from untreated Scots pine. The main aim was to evaluate the i...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,311 Views
14 Pages

WON-OCDMA System Based on MW-ZCC Codes for Applications in Optical Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Saleh Seyedzadeh,
  • Andrew Agapiou,
  • Majid Moghaddasi,
  • Milan Dado and
  • Ivan Glesk

13 January 2021

The growing demand for extensive and reliable structural health monitoring resulted in the development of advanced optical sensing systems (OSS) that in conjunction with wireless optical networks (WON) are capable of extending the reach of optical se...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Sensor Technologies for IoT)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,178 Views
22 Pages

Information-Theoretic Analysis of a Family of Improper Discrete Constellations

  • Ignacio Santamaria,
  • Pedro M. Crespo,
  • Christian Lameiro and
  • Peter J. Schreier

11 January 2018

Non-circular or improper Gaussian signaling has proven beneficial in several interference-limited wireless networks. However, all implementable coding schemes are based on finite discrete constellations rather than Gaussian signals. In this paper, we...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,058 Views
18 Pages

18 July 2017

In this paper, new construction methods of entanglement-assisted quantum error correction code (EAQECC) from circulant matrices are proposed. We first construct the matrices from two vectors of constraint size, and determine the isotropic subgroup. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
8,336 Views
24 Pages

15 March 2023

Hydrogen gas storage place has been increasing daily because of its consumption. Hydrogen gas is a dream fuel of the future with many social, economic and environmental benefits to its credit. However, many hydrogen storage tanks exploded accidentall...

(This article belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,269 Views
34 Pages

An Adaption Broadcast Radius-Based Code Dissemination Scheme for Low Energy Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Shidi Yu,
  • Xiao Liu,
  • Anfeng Liu,
  • Naixue Xiong and ,
  • Zhiping Cai and
  • Tian Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

10 May 2018

Due to the Software Defined Network (SDN) technology, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are getting wider application prospects for sensor nodes that can get new functions after updating program codes. The issue of disseminating program codes to every...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Low Energy Wireless Sensor Networks: Protocols, Architectures and Solutions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,630 Views
17 Pages

13 August 2020

In this paper, a non-binary low-density parity-check (NB-LDPC) coded high-order continuous phase modulation (CPM) system is designed and optimized to improve power and iterative efficiencies. Firstly, the minimum squared normalized Euclidean distance...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Iterative Numerical Functional Analysis with Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
485 Views
27 Pages

5 June 2026

We study cyclic codes over split two-branch finite local rings of the form Rl,m=Fp[u,v]/⟨ul,vm,uv⟩,l,m≥2, whose radical filtration is governed by two independent nilpotent chains: u→u2→⋯→ul−1→0andv&rar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,926 Views
26 Pages

Capacity Enhancement in Free-Space Optics Networks via Optimized Optical Code Division Multiple Access Image Transmission

  • Somia A. Abd El-Mottaleb,
  • Mehtab Singh,
  • Hassan Yousif Ahmed,
  • Median Zeghid and
  • Maisara Mohyeldin Gasim Mohamed

This paper presents a new high-speed RGB image transmission system over Free-Space Optics (FSO) channel employing Optical Code Division Multiple Access (OCDMA) with Permutation Vector (PV) codes. Four RGB images are transmitted simultaneously at 10 G...

(This article belongs to the Section Optical Communication and Network)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,707 Views
15 Pages

Averting BER Floor with Iterative Source and Channel Decoding for Layered Steered Space-Time Codes

  • Nasru Minallah,
  • Ishtiaque Ahmed,
  • Jaroslav Frnda and
  • Khurram S. Khattak

29 September 2021

The widespread development in wireless technologies and the advancements in multimedia communication have brought about a positive impact on the performance of wireless transceivers. We investigate the performance of our three-stage turbo detected sy...

(This article belongs to the Section Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,404 Views
28 Pages

Symmetric cryptography is essential for secure communication as it ensures confidentiality by using shared secret keys. This paper proposes a novel substitution-permutation network (SPN) that integrates Latin squares, permutations, and Reed-Muller (R...

  • Article
  • Open Access
477 Views
17 Pages

Orthogonal direct sum masking (ODSM) protects embedded cryptographic implementations against side-channel attacks by splitting the ambient space into a source code C carrying sensitive data and a complementary masking code D carrying fresh randomness...

  • Article
  • Open Access
400 Views
19 Pages

17 August 2026

Adder neural networks remove multiplication from convolution, yet their direct L1-distance datapath still requires subtraction, absolute-value generation, and wide accumulation. We address this cost by mapping the online L1 operation to minimum selec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Integrated Circuit Design and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
971 Views
24 Pages

This paper proposes a resource optimized cascaded quantum surface repetition code architecture integrated with a Union Find (UF) enhanced hybrid decoder, which suppresses biased noise and improves the scalability of quantum error correction through s...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,962 Views
16 Pages

Time to Rescue for Different Paths to Survival Following a Marine Incident

  • Knut Espen Solberg,
  • Jan Erik Jensen,
  • Endre Barane,
  • Snorre Hagen and ,
  • Andreas Kjøl,
  • Gudmund Johansen and
  • Ove Tobias Gudmestad
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

7 December 2020

The time required for rescue is a critical factor for surviving a marine incident. The regulatory framework, International Maritime Organization (IMO) Polar Code, utilizes a risk-based approach. It states that the vessel operators are to define the t...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,929 Views
16 Pages

Shift Pruning-Based SCL Decoding for Polar Codes

  • Desheng Wang,
  • Jihang Yin,
  • Yonggang Xu,
  • Xuan Yang and ,
  • Jiaqi Yan and
  • Gang Hua
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

21 September 2024

In the context of the high-speed development of 5G communications, high-performance decoding schemes for polar codes are a hot spot in channel coding research. Shift pruning successive cancellation list (SP-SCL) decoding aims to recover the correct p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,353 Views
17 Pages

6G Network Architecture Using FSO-PDM/PV-OCDMA System with Weather Performance Analysis

  • Mehtab Singh,
  • Sahil Nazir Pottoo,
  • Ammar Armghan,
  • Khaled Aliqab and ,
  • Meshari Alsharari and
  • Somia A. Abd El-Mottaleb
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

9 November 2022

This paper presents a novel 160 Gbps free space optics (FSO) communication system for 6G applications. Polarization division multiplexing (PDM) is integrated with an optical code division multiple access (OCDMA) technique to form a PDM-OCDMA hybrid....

(This article belongs to the Section Optics and Lasers)
  • Article
  • Open Access
244 Views
42 Pages

Construction and Benchmarking Methodology for Crypto-Code Systems on Elliptic and Hyperelliptic Curves

  • Serhii Yevseiev,
  • Stanislav Milevskyi,
  • Serhii Pohasii,
  • Olena Akhiiezer and
  • Vladyslav Sokol

The advent of quantum computing threatens the long-term security of classical public-key cryptosystems: RSA and standard elliptic-curve cryptography are vulnerable to Shor’s algorithm, making quantum-resistant alternatives a priority for modern...

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