The minimum distance of the dual of a CRC

  • Authors:
  • H. D. Wacker;J. Boercsoek

  • Affiliations:
  • Development, HIMA Paul Hildebrandt GmbH + Co KG, Bruehl, Germany;Development, HIMA Paul Hildebrandt GmbH + Co KG, Bruehl, Germany

  • Venue:
  • CIMMACS'07 Proceedings of the 6th WSEAS international conference on Computational intelligence, man-machine systems and cybernetics
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Dual codes play an important role in the field of error detecting codes on a binary symmetric channel. Via the MacWilliams Identities they can be used to calculate the original code's weight distribution and its probability of undetected error. Moreover, knowledge of the minimum distance of the dual code provides insight in the properties of the weights of the code. In this paper firstly the order of growth of the dual distance of a CRC as a function of n is investigated, and a lower bound is given. Then, on one hand, this bound is used to derive an upper bound on the probability of undetected error of a CRC. On the other hand it is applied to some results about the range of binomiality and the covering radius of a CRC. Finally a new interpretation of Sidel'nikov's theorem on the cumulative distribution function of the weights of a code is given. In this way the conclusions may attribute a new meaning to some results about codes with known dual distance.