Unidirectional covering codes

  • Authors:
  • P. R.J. Ostergard;E. A. Seuranen

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Electr. & Commun. Eng., Helsinki Univ. of Technol., Finland;-

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

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Abstract

A code C⊆Zn2, where Z2={0,1}, has unidirectional covering radius R if R is the smallest integer so that any word in Zn2 can be obtained from at least one codeword c∈C by replacing either 1s by 0s in at most R coordinates or 0s by 1s in at most R coordinates. The minimum cardinality of such a code is denoted by E(n,R). Upper bounds on this function are here obtained by constructing codes using tabu search; lower bounds, on the other hand, are mainly obtained by integer programming and exhaustive search. Best known bounds on E(n,R) for n≤13 and R≤6 are tabulated.