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cs.IT2026

A Survey on Code Equivalence: The State-of-the-Art and Open Questions

Anna-Lena Horlemann, Abhinaba Mazumder, Michael Schaller +1

In this work, we provide a comprehensive survey of the code equivalence problem and its variants. We explain the existing results, highlighting the relationships between different…

cs.IT2026

On Optimal Homogeneous-Metric Codes

Andreas Pyka, Violetta Weger

The homogeneous metric can be viewed as a natural extension of the Hamming metric to finite chain rings. It distinguishes between three types of elements: zero, non-zero elements i…

cs.IT2026

Weighted-Hamming Metric: Bounds and Codes

Sebastian Bitzer, Alberto Ravagnani, Violetta Weger

The weighted-Hamming metric generalizes the Hamming metric by assigning different weights to blocks of coordinates. It is well-suited for applications such as coding over independe…

cs.IT2026

Weak Composition Lattices and Ring-Linear Anticodes

Jessica Bariffi, Drisana Bhatia, Giuseppe Cotardo +1

Lattices and partially ordered sets have played an increasingly important role in coding theory, providing combinatorial frameworks for studying structural and algebraic properties…

cs.IT2024

Weighted-Hamming Metric for Parallel Channels

Sebastian Bitzer, Alberto Ravagnani, Violetta Weger

Independent parallel q-ary symmetric channels are a suitable transmission model for several applications. The proposed weighted-Hamming metric is tailored to this setting and enabl…

cs.IT2023

Better bounds on the minimal Lee distance

Jessica Bariffi, Violetta Weger

This paper provides new and improved Singleton-like bounds for Lee metric codes over integer residue rings. We derive the bounds using various novel definitions of generalized Lee…

cs.IT2023

On the Number of -Lee-Error-Correcting Codes

Nadja Willenborg, Anna-Lena Horlemann, Violetta Weger

We consider -Lee-error-correcting codes of length over the residue ring and determine upper and lower bounds on the number of -Le…

cs.IT2022

On the Density of Codes over Finite Chain Rings

Anna-Lena Horlemann, Violetta Weger, Nadja Willenborg

We determine the asymptotic proportion of free modules over finite chain rings with good distance properties and treat the asymptotics in the code length n and the residue field si…

cs.IT2022

The Subfield Metric and its Application to Quantum Error Correction

Markus Grassl, Anna-Lena Horlemann, Violetta Weger

We introduce a new weight and corresponding metric over finite extension fields for asymmetric error correction. The weight distinguishes between elements from the base field and t…

cs.IT2022

Interleaved Prange: A New Generic Decoder for Interleaved Codes

Anmoal Porwal, Lukas Holzbaur, Hedongliang Liu +3

Due to the recent challenges in post-quantum cryptography, several new approaches for code-based cryptography have been proposed. For example, a variant of the McEliece cryptosyste…

cs.IT2022

Information Set Decoding for Lee-Metric Codes using Restricted Balls

Jessica Bariffi, Karan Khathuria, Violetta Weger

The Lee metric syndrome decoding problem is an NP-hard problem and several generic decoders have been proposed. The observation that such decoders come with a larger cost than thei…

cs.IT2022

Generic Decoding in the Cover Metric

Sebastian Bitzer, Julian Renner, Antonia Wachter-Zeh +1

In this paper, we study the hardness of decoding a random code endowed with the cover metric. As the cover metric lies in between the Hamming and rank metric, it presents itself as…

cs.IT2021

Bounds in the Lee Metric and Optimal Codes

Eimear Byrne, Violetta Weger

In this paper we investigate known Singleton-like bounds in the Lee metric and characterize optimal codes, which turn out to be very few. We then focus on Plotkin-like bounds in th…

cs.IT2021

Density of Free Modules over Finite Chain Rings

Eimear Byrne, Anna-Lena Horlemann, Karan Khathuria +1

In this paper we focus on modules over a finite chain ring of size . We compute the density of free modules of , where we separately treat the asy…

cs.IT2021

On Bounds for Ring-Based Coding Theory

Niklas Gassner, Marcus Greferath, Joachim Rosenthal +1

Coding Theory where the alphabet is identified with the elements of a ring or a module has become an important research topic over the last 30 years. Such codes over rings had impo…

cs.IT2020

On single server private information retrieval in a coding theory perspective

Gianira N. Alfarano, Karan Khathuria, Violetta Weger

In this paper, we present a new perspective of single server private information retrieval (PIR) schemes by using the notion of linear error-correcting codes. Many of the known sin…

cs.IT2020★ 3 cited

On the Hardness of the Lee Syndrome Decoding Problem

Violetta Weger, Karan Khathuria, Anna-Lena Horlemann +3

In this paper we study the hardness of the syndrome decoding problem over finite rings endowed with the Lee metric. We first prove that the decisional version of the problem is NP-…

cs.IT2018

Generalization of the Ball-Collision Algorithm

Carmelo Interlando, Karan Khathuria, Nicole Rohrer +2

In this paper we generalize the Ball-Collision Algorithm by Bernstein, Lange, Peters from the binary field to a general finite field. We also provide a complexity analysis and comp…