Good self-dual quasi-cyclic codes exist

• Main Authors: Ling, San, Sole, Patrick
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Information systems
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/96309; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/9834
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We show that there are long binary quasi-cyclic self-dual (either Type I or Type II) codes satisfying the Gilbert-Varshamov bound.