Constructing strongly-MDS convolutional codes with maximum distance profile

This paper revisits strongly-MDS convolutional codes with maximum distance profile (MDP). These are (non-binary) convolutional codes that have an optimum sequence of column distances and attains the generalized Singleton bound at the earliest possible time frame. These properties make these convolut...

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Main Author: Napp, Diego (author)
Other Authors: Smarandache, Roxana (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10773/15702
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:ria.ua.pt:10773/15702
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Summary:This paper revisits strongly-MDS convolutional codes with maximum distance profile (MDP). These are (non-binary) convolutional codes that have an optimum sequence of column distances and attains the generalized Singleton bound at the earliest possible time frame. These properties make these convolutional codes applicable over the erasure channel, since they are able to correct a large number of erasures per time interval. The existence of these codes have been shown only for some specific cases. This paper shows by construction the existence of convolutional codes that are both strongly-MDS and MDP for all choices of parameters.