On the norm and covering radius of the first-order Reed-Muller codes

  • Authors:
  • Xiang-dong Hou

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Math. & Stat., Wright State Univ., Dayton, OH

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Let ρ(1,m) and N(1,m) be the covering radius and norm of the first-order Reed-Muller code R(1,m), respectively. It is known that ρ(1,2k+1)⩽lower bound [22k-2(2k-1/2)] and N(1,2k+1)⩽2 lower bound [22k-2(2k-1/2)] (k>0). We prove that ρ(1,2k+1)⩽2 lower bound [22k-1-2(2k-3/2)] and N(1,2k+1)⩽4 lower bound [22k-1-2(2k-3/2)] (k>0). We also discuss the connections of the two new bounds with other coding theoretic problems