ON THE OPTIMALITY OF ERROR CONTROL CODES DISCOVERED BY FARKAŠ AND BAYLIS

Ján Čuchran

   Recently new families of error control codes were discovered by Farkas and Baylis. Some of them have higher rates than Reed Solomon Codes with the same error control capability over identical finite field. In this paper questions about optimality of this codes are analyzed. It is observed that some of new codes are, in a sense explained below, optimal.

Keywords: error control codes, code distance, erasure correcting, code rate, optimality

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