TU3.R7.4

On de Bruijn Covering Sequences and Arrays

Yeow Meng Chee, National University Singapore, Singapore; Tuvi Etzion, Technion, Israel Technology Institute, Israel; Hoang Ta, Van Khu Vu, National University Singapore, Singapore

Session:
Sequences 2

Track:
5: Cryptography

Location:
VIP

Presentation Time:
Tue, 9 Jul, 15:25 - 15:45

Session Chair:
Lukas Koelsch,
Abstract
An (m,n,R)-de Bruijn covering array (dBCA) is a doubly periodic MxN array over an alphabet of size q such that the set of all its mxn windows form a covering code with radius R. An upper bound of the smallest array area of an (m,n,R)-dBCA is provided using a probabilistic technique which is similar to the one that was used for an upper bound on the length of a de Bruijn covering sequence. A folding technique to construct a dBCA from a de Bruijn covering sequence or de Bruijn covering sequences code is presented. Several new constructions that yield shorter de Bruijn covering sequences and (m,n,R)-dBCAs with smaller areas are also provided. These constructions are mainly based on sequences derived from cyclic codes, self-dual sequences, primitive polynomials, an interleaving technique, folding, and mutual shifts of sequences with the same covering radius. Finally, constructions of de Bruijn covering sequences codes are also discussed.
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