Title :
The expansion factor of error-control codes
Author :
Khayrallah, Ali S.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Delaware Univ., Newark, DE, USA
fDate :
9/1/1995 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
We investigate the expansion factor Δ(C) of an (n, k, d) linear block code. Δ(C) indicates how well the code preserves and expands the distance relations of the input. We relate Δ(C) to n, k, d, the total weight, and the weight distribution, and we find bounds on Δ(C)
Keywords :
block codes; error correction codes; linear codes; distance relations; error-control codes; expansion factor; linear block code; total weight; weight distribution; Block codes; Decoding; Hamming distance; Hamming weight; Information theory;
Journal_Title :
Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
