Title :
Bounds on the weight hierarchy of generalized concatenated codes
Author :
Agabio, Paolo ; Biglieri, Ezio
Author_Institution :
Dipartimento di Elettronica, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
fDate :
9/1/1996 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
We determine upper and lower bounds to the generalized Hamming weights of generalized concatenated codes. They are derived from the generalized Hamming weights of the outer codes and certain properties of the inner code and its partitions
Keywords :
block codes; concatenated codes; linear codes; generalized Hamming weights; generalized concatenated codes; inner code; linear block codes; lower bounds; outer codes; upper bounds; weight hierarchy; Block codes; Concatenated codes; Decoding; Hamming distance; Hamming weight; Linear code; Parallel architectures; Product codes; Upper bound;
Journal_Title :
Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
