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Correcting Grain-Errors in Magnetic Media (1307.7087v2)
Published 26 Jul 2013 in cs.IT and math.IT
Abstract: This paper studies new bounds and constructions that are applicable to the combinatorial granular channel model previously introduced by Sharov and Roth. We derive new bounds on the maximum cardinality of a grain-error-correcting code and propose constructions of codes that correct grain-errors. We demonstrate that a permutation of the classical group codes (e.g., Constantin-Rao codes) can correct a single grain-error. In many cases of interest, our results improve upon the currently best known bounds and constructions. Some of the approaches adopted in the context of grain-errors may have application to other channel models.