1. A construction of MDS 2D convolutional codes of rate based on superregular matrices
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Climent, Joan-Josep, Napp, Diego, Perea, Carmen, and Pinto, Raquel
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MATHEMATICAL convolutions , *CODING theory , *MATRICES (Mathematics) , *TOPOLOGICAL degree , *FINITE fields , *LINEAR codes , *SINGLETON bounds - Abstract
Abstract: In this paper two-dimensional convolutional codes with finite support are considered, i.e., convolutional codes whose codewords have compact support indexed in and take values in , where is a finite field. The main goal of this work is to analyze the (free) distance properties of this type of codes of rate and degree . We first establish an upper bound on the maximum possible distance for these codes. We then present particular constructions of two-dimensional convolutional codes with finite support of rate and degree that attain such a bound and therefore have the maximum distance among all two-dimensional convolutional codes with finite support with the same rate and degree. We call such codes maximum distance separable two-dimensional convolutional codes. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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- 2012
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