New Construction of Symmetric Orthogonal Arrays of Strength t

Jiao DU
Qiaoyan WEN
Jie ZHANG
Xin LIAO

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E96-A    No.9    pp.1901-1904
Publication Date: 2013/09/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1337
DOI: 10.1587/transfun.E96.A.1901
Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Coding Theory
Keyword: 
orthogonal arrays,  orthogonal partition,  latin square,  count,  

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Summary: 
Orthogonal arrays have important applications in statistics and computer science, as well as in coding theory. In this letter, a new construction method of symmetric orthogonal arrays of strength t is proposed, which is a concatenation of two orthogonal partitions according to a latin square. As far as we know, this is a new construction of symmetric orthogonal arrays of strength t, where t is a given integer. Based on the different latin squares, we also study the enumeration problem of orthogonal partitions, and a lower bound on the count of orthogonal partitions is derived.


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