LINEAR BLOCK AND ARRAY CODES CORRECTING REPEATED CT BURST ERRORS

Abstract

Burst errors are very common in practice. There have been many designs in order to correct or at least detect such errors. Recently, a new kind of burst error which is termed as repeated burst error has been introduced in order to detect or correct errors that occurs in very busy communication channels. In this paper, we extend the definition of repeated burst errors for block and array codes endowed with a homogeneous metric. We also obtain some upper bounds on the number of parity check digits for these codes correcting all repeated burst errors.