# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

May  2011, 5(2): 267-274. doi: 10.3934/amc.2011.5.267

## On the performance of binary extremal self-dual codes

 1 Department of Mathematics and Informatics, Veliko Tarnovo University, 5000 Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria 2 Department of Mathematics, Otto-von-Guericke-University, 39016 Magdeburg, Germany, Germany

Received  April 2010 Revised  July 2010 Published  May 2011

The decoding error probability of a code $C$ measures the quality of performance when $C$ is used for error correction in data transmission. In this note we compare different types of codes with regard to the decoding error probability.
Citation: Stefka Bouyuklieva, Anton Malevich, Wolfgang Willems. On the performance of binary extremal self-dual codes. Advances in Mathematics of Communications, 2011, 5 (2) : 267-274. doi: 10.3934/amc.2011.5.267
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