Using Genetic Algorithms to Design Constant Weight Codes

Francesc Cornellas and Ramon Roca

Departament de Matemàtica Aplicada i TelemàticaUniversitat Politècnica de CatalunyaETSE Telecomunicació, Campus Nord C-3, Gran Capitán s/nE-08071 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spaincomellas@mat.upc.es

Abstract

Genetic algorithms have been used successfully for solving different combinatorial optimization problems. We give here a new efficient application for the search of constant weight codes. The algorithm presented is intended to generate codes with the maximum number of codewords for a given length, constant weight and minimum Hamming distance. A comparison with the simulated annealing technique is also discussed. On the other hand, the algorithm introduces ...

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