Improved Bounds for Ternary Linear Codes of Dimension 8 Using Tabu Search

  • Authors:
  • T. Aaron Gulliver;Patric R. J. Östergård

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand. gulliver@elec.canterbury.ac.nz;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Helsinki University of Technology, P.O. Box 5400, 02015 HUT, Finland. patric.ostergard@hut.fi

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Heuristics
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

In this paper, new codes of dimension 8 are presented which give improved bounds on the maximum possible minimum distance of ternary linear codes. These codes belong to the class of quasi-twisted (QT) codes, and have been constructed using a stochastic optimization algorithm, tabu search. Twenty three codes are given which improve or establish the bounds for ternary codes. In addition, a table of upper and lower bounds for d3(n, 8) is presented for n ≤ 200.