An improvement of the Gilbert bound for constant weight codes

  • Authors:

  • Thomas Ericson;V. A. Zinoviev

  • Affiliations:

  • Institute of Technology, Linko´ping, Sweden;Institute for Problems of Information Transmission, Moscow, USSR

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • Year:
  • 1987

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Abstract

Using the Goppa codes as outer codes in a construction devised by Kautz and Singleton, an improvement of the Gilbert bound for constant weight codes is obtained.