On the performance of binary extremal self-dual codes (Q2275879)

The authors investigate an important measure for the quality of a code -- its decoding error probability. In the paper the authors compare different types of codes with regard to the decoding error probability. They give a good survey on the problem and review some of the known results about it. In the last two sections the authors investigate the performance of extremal self-dual codes of type I and type-I codes with minimal shadow vs type-II codes. They prove two theorems that show a comparison of the performance of codes with special parameters.