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Nearly MDS expander codes with reduced alphabet size
Recently, Roth and Skachek proposed two methods for constructing nearly
maximum-distance separable (MDS) expander codes. We show that through the
simple modification of using mixed-alphabet codes derived from MDS codes as
constituent codes in their code designs, one can obtain nearly MDS codes of
significantly smaller alphabet size, albeit at the expense of a (very slight)
reduction in code rate