Computer Science – Information Theory
Scientific paper
2008-11-25
Computer Science
Information Theory
12 pages, to appear in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, May 2010
Scientific paper
Codes in the projective space and codes in the Grassmannian over a finite field - referred to as subspace codes and constant-dimension codes (CDCs), respectively - have been proposed for error control in random linear network coding. For subspace codes and CDCs, a subspace metric was introduced to correct both errors and erasures, and an injection metric was proposed to correct adversarial errors. In this paper, we investigate the packing and covering properties of subspace codes with both metrics. We first determine some fundamental geometric properties of the projective space with both metrics. Using these properties, we then derive bounds on the cardinalities of packing and covering subspace codes, and determine the asymptotic rates of optimal packing and optimal covering subspace codes with both metrics. Our results not only provide guiding principles for the code design for error control in random linear network coding, but also illustrate the difference between the two metrics from a geometric perspective. In particular, our results show that optimal packing CDCs are optimal packing subspace codes up to a scalar for both metrics if and only if their dimension is half of their length (up to rounding). In this case, CDCs suffer from only limited rate loss as opposed to subspace codes with the same minimum distance. We also show that optimal covering CDCs can be used to construct asymptotically optimal covering subspace codes with the injection metric only.
Gadouleau Maximilien
Yan Zhiyuan
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