The Length of Primitive BCH Codes with Minimal Covering Radius

  • Authors:
  • Stephen D. Cohen

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QW, Scotland

  • Venue:
  • Designs, Codes and Cryptography
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

It is proved that the coveringradius of a primitive binary BCH code of length q-1and designed distance 2t+1, where \[ q=2^m[(2t-3)(2t-1)!]^2,\] is exactly 2t-1 (the minimum value possible).The bound for q is significantly lower than theone obtained by O. Moreno and C. J. Moreno [9].