Asymptotically optimal low-cost solid codes

  • Authors:
  • Helmut Jü/rgensen;Stavros Konstantinidis;Nguyen Huong Lâ/m

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, The University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B7/ and Institut fü/r Informatik, Universitä/t Potsdam, August-Bebel-Straß/e 89, D-14482 ...;Department of Mathematics and Computing Science, Saint Mary's University Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 3C3;Hanoi Institute of Mathematics, 18 Hoang Quoc Viet Road, 10307 Hanoi, Vietnam

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Automata, Languages and Combinatorics
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

A new construction of solid codes is introduced. With this construction one obtains classes of solid codes which are asymptotically optimal in terms of information rate and which have low-cost systematic encoding and decoding algorithms. The construction uses a new result on the asymptotic average length of maximal runs in words.