Ars Combinatoria
New binary linear codes
Thomas Aaron Gulliver, Patric R. J. Östergård
Abstract
In this paper, nineteen new binary linear codes are presented which improve the bounds on the maximum possible minimum distance. These codes belong to the class of quasi-cyclic (QC) codes, and have been constructed using a stochastic optimization algorithm, tabu search. Six of the new codes meet the upper bound on minimum distance and so are optimal.