Title
New lower bounds for covering codes
Abstract
We develop two methods for obtaining new lower bounds for the cardinality of covering codes. Both are based on the notion of linear inequality of a code. Indeed, every linear inequality of a code (defined on F q n ) allows to obtain, using a classical formula (inequality (2) below), a lower bound on K q (n,R) , the minimum cardinality of a covering code with radius R . We first show how to get new linear inequalities (providing new lower bounds) from old ones. Then, we prove some formulae that improve on the classical formula (2) for linear inequalities of some given types. Applying both methods to all the classical cases of the literature, we improve on nearly 20% of the best lower bounds on K q (n,R) .
Year
DOI
Venue
2000
10.1016/S0012-365X(00)00011-X
Discrete Mathematics
Keywords
Field
DocType
05b40,94b25,linear inequality,94b65,covering code,new lower bound,lower bound
Discrete mathematics,Combinatorics,Covering code,Upper and lower bounds,Cardinality,Code (cryptography),Linear inequality,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
222
1-3
Discrete Mathematics
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.70
0
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
L. Habsieger141.03
A. Plagne241.37