Generalized Product (GPC) Codes, a new construction unifying Product Codes and Integrated Interleaved (II) Codes, are presented. Product Codes and II Codes are special cases of GPC codes. Applications for approaches requiring local and global parities are described, like in the case of Locally Recoverable (LRC) Codes. The more general problem of extending product codes by adding global parities is studied and optimal solutions for one, two and three global parities are presented. Tradeoffs between the small field size required for GPC codes and optimality of more general EPC codes are discussed.
By: Mario Blaum, Steven Hetzler
Published in: RJ10535 in 2016
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