A Note on Perfect Multiple Coverings of The Hamming Space

G. J.M. van Wee, G. D. Cohen, S. N. Litsyn

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Abstract

Let Q be an alphabet of size q ≥ 2. The Hamming space Qnthat consists of all n-tuples of elements of Q is a metric space, provided with the Hamming distance function. a perfect multiple covering (PMC) is a code C in Qnsuch that there exist fixed numbers r and μ with the property that every word in Qn is within distance r from exactly μ codewords of C. We give a few constructions of PMC's, and investigate in detail the problem of determining all possible parameters of PMC's with r =1.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)678-682
Number of pages5
JournalIEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Volume37
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - May 1991
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Multiple coverings
  • ball pool problems
  • covering radius
  • foot
  • perfect codes

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