Locally optimal (nonshortening) linear covering codes and minimal saturating sets in projective spaces

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 4378-4387

  Davydov, Alexander A ^a   Faina, Giorgio ^b   Marcugini, Stefano ^b   Pambianco, Fernanda ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TRANSMISSION PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Covering codes; Covering density; Covering radius; Minimal saturating sets in projective geometry; Nonshortening covering codes

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTIMIZATION; SET THEORY; THEOREM PROVING;

COVERING DENSITY; COVERING RADIUS; LINEAR COVERING CODES; MINIMAL SATURATING SETS IN PROJECTIVE GEOMETRY; NONSHORTENING COVERING CODES;

CODES (SYMBOLS);

EID: 29144531938     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2005.859297     Document Type: Article

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