Bounds on the size of codes

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dc.contributor.advisorBarg, Alexanderen_US
dc.contributor.authorPurkayastha, Punarbasuen_US
dc.contributor.departmentElectrical Engineeringen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-10-07T05:30:57Z
dc.date.available2010-10-07T05:30:57Z
dc.date.issued2010en_US
dc.description.abstractIn this dissertation we determine new bounds and properties of codes in three different finite metric spaces, namely the ordered Hamming space, the binary Hamming space, and the Johnson space. The ordered Hamming space is a generalization of the Hamming space that arises in several different problems of coding theory and numerical integration. Structural properties of this space are well described in the framework of Delsarte's theory of association schemes. Relying on this theory, we perform a detailed study of polynomials related to the ordered Hamming space and derive new asymptotic bounds on the size of codes in this space which improve upon the estimates known earlier. A related project concerns linear codes in the ordered Hamming space. We define and analyze a class of near-optimal codes, called near-Maximum Distance Separable codes. We determine the weight distribution and provide constructions of such codes. Codes in the ordered Hamming space are dual to a certain type of point distributions in the unit cube used in numerical integration. We show that near-Maximum Distance Separable codes are equivalently represented as certain near-optimal point distributions. In the third part of our study we derive a new upper bound on the size of a family of subsets of a finite set with restricted pairwise intersections, which improves upon the well-known Frankl-Wilson upper bound. The new bound is obtained by analyzing a refinement of the association scheme of the Hamming space (the Terwilliger algebra) and intertwining functions of the symmetric group. Finally, in the fourth set of problems we determine new estimates on the size of codes in the Johnson space. We also suggest a new approach to the derivation of the well-known Johnson bound for codes in this space. Our estimates are often valid in the region where the Johnson bound is vacuous. We show that these methods are also applicable to the case of multiple packings in the Hamming space (list-decodable codes). In this context we recover the best known estimate on the size of list-decodable codes in a new way.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/10754
dc.subject.pqcontrolledEngineering, Electronics and Electricalen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledAssociation schemeen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledBounds on codesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledCoding Theoryen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledOrdered Hamming spaceen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledOrthogonal polynomialsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledTerwilliger Algebraen_US
dc.titleBounds on the size of codesen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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