• Proceedings of the Korea Institutes of Information Security and Cryptology Conference
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• 1996.11a
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• pp.286-294
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• 1996

In a remarkable paper 〔3〕, Hammons et al. showed that, when properly defined, the binary nonlinear Preparata code can be considered as the Gray map of a linear code eve. Z$_4$, the so-called Preparata code eve. Z$_4$. Recently, Yang and Helleseth 〔12〕 considered the generalized Hamming weights d$\_$r/(m) for Preparata codes of length 2$\^$m/ over Z$_4$ and exactly determined d$\_$r/, for r = 0.5,1.0,1.5,2,2.5 and 3.0. In particular, they completely determined d$\_$r/(m) for any r in the case of m $\leq$ 6. In this paper we show that the Preparata code of length 16 over Z$_4$ does not satisfy the chain condition.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.588-595
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• 2010

This paper proposes encoding and decoding for nonlinear product codes and investigates the performance of nonlinear product codes. The proposed nonlinear product codes are constructed as N-dimensional product codes where the constituent codes are nonlinear binary codes derived from the linear codes over higher order alphabets, for example, Preparata or Kerdock codes. The performance and the complexity of the proposed construction are evaluated using the well-known nonlinear Nordstrom-Robinson code, which is presented in the generalized array code format with a low complexity trellis. The proposed construction shows the additional coding gain, reduced error floor, and lower implementation complexity. The (64, 24, 12) nonlinear binary product code has an effective gain of about 2.5 dB and 1 dB gain at a BER of $10^{-6}$ when compared to the (64, 15, 16) linear product code and the (64, 24, 10) linear product code, respectively. The (256, 64, 36) nonlinear binary product code composed of two Nordstrom-Robinson codes has an effective gain of about 0.7 dB at a BER of $10^{-5}$ when compared to the (256, 64, 25) linear product code composed of two (16, 8, 5) quasi-cyclic codes.