• DocumentCode
    1410331
  • Title

    On the extended error-correcting capabilities of the quaternary Preparata codes

  • Author

    Greferath, Marcus ; Vellbinger, Ute

  • Author_Institution
    AT&T Labs, Florham Park, NJ, USA
  • Volume
    44
  • Issue
    5
  • fYear
    1998
  • fDate
    9/1/1998 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    2018
  • Lastpage
    2019
  • Abstract
    We prove extended error-correcting capabilities of the quaternary Preparata codes. These are metrically reflected by a slight and simple modification of the Lee distance on Z4: we change the weight of the element 2 to 4/3 and leave all remaining weights untouched
  • Keywords
    decoding; error correction codes; linear codes; Lee distance; Preparata codes; decoding scheme; extended error-correcting capabilities; quaternary codes; weight functions; Error correction codes; Explosives; Hamming distance; History; Linear code; Mathematics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9448
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/18.705585
  • Filename
    705585