Improvement on the Johnson upper bound for error-correcting codes

Beniamin Mounits, Tuvi Etzion, Simon Litsyn

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Abstract

Let A(n, d) denote the maximum possible number of codewords in a binary code of length n and minimum Hamming distance d. For large values of n the best known upper bound, for fixed d, is the Johnson bound. We give a new upper bound which is at least as good as the Johnson bound for all values of n and d, and for each d there are infinitely many values of n for which the new bound is better than the Johnson bound.

Original languageEnglish
Article number345
Pages (from-to)345
Number of pages1
JournalIEEE International Symposium on Information Theory - Proceedings
DOIs
StatePublished - 2002

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