• DocumentCode
    991453
  • Title

    Optimal Constant Composition Codes From Zero-Difference Balanced Functions

  • Author

    Ding, Cunsheng

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Kowloon
  • Volume
    54
  • Issue
    12
  • fYear
    2008
  • Firstpage
    5766
  • Lastpage
    5770
  • Abstract
    Constant composition codes are a special class of constant weight codes, and include permutation codes as a subclass. They have applications in communications engineering. In this correspondence, a generic construction of optimal constant composition codes using zero-difference balanced functions is introduced. It generalizes the earlier construction of optimal constant composition codes employing perfect nonlinear functions. In addition, two classes of optimal constant composition codes with new parameters are reported.
  • Keywords
    codes; constant weight codes; optimal constant composition codes; perfect nonlinear functions; permutation codes; zero-difference balanced functions; Codes; Computer science; Hamming distance; Hamming weight; History; Upper bound; Constant composition codes; constant weight codes; perfect nonlinear functions; zero-difference balanced functions;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9448
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TIT.2008.2006420
  • Filename
    4675719