On the size of identifying codes in binary hypercubes

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DOI10.1016/J.JCTA.2009.02.004zbMATH Open1173.94009arXiv0804.3029OpenAlexW2135472198MaRDI QIDQ1024996FDOQ1024996


Authors: Svante Janson, Tero Laihonen Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 18 June 2009

Published in: Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider identifying codes in binary Hamming spaces F^n, i.e., in binary hypercubes. The concept of identifying codes was introduced by Karpovsky, Chakrabarty and Levitin in 1998. Currently, the subject forms a topic of its own with several possible applications, for example, to sensor networks. Let C be a subset of F^n. For any subset X of F^n, denote by I_r(X)=I_r(C;X) the set of elements of C within distance r from at least one x in X. Now C is called an (r,<= l)-identifying code if the sets I_r(X) are distinct for all subsets X of size at most l. We estimate the smallest size of such codes with fixed l and r/n converging to some number rho in (0,1). We further show the existence of such a code of size O(n^{3/2}) for every fixed l and r slightly less than n/2, and give for l=2 an explicit construction of small such codes for r the integer part of n/2-1 (the largest possible value).


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0804.3029




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