Description
Second-smallest member of the Hamming code family with generator matrix \begin{align} \left(\begin{array}{ccccccccccc} 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 1 & 0\\ 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 1\\ 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 1\\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 \end{array}\right)~. \tag*{(1)}\end{align}
This code can be extended by a parity-check bit to yield the \([8,4,4]\) extended Hamming code, the smallest doubly-even self-dual code. It can be shortened to yield the \([6,3,3]\) shortened Hamming code.
Protection
Can detect 1-bit and 2-bit errors, and can correct 1-bit errors.
Parents
- Hamming code
- Projective geometry code — The \([7,4,3]\) Hamming code parity-check matrix corresponds to points in the Fano plane \(PG_2(2)\). Columns of a general Hamming parity-check matrix correspond to one-dimensional subspaces of \(GF(2)^n\).
- Binary quadratic-residue (QR) code — \([7,4,3]\) Hamming code is a quadratic-residue code with generator polynomial \(1+x+x^3\) [4].
Cousins
- \([[7,1,3]]\) Steane code — The Steane code is constructed from the \([7,4,3]\) classical Hamming code.
- Divisible code — The extended Hamming code code is the smallest double-even self-dual code.
- Griesmer code — Starting with the \([6,3,3]\) shortened Hamming code and applying the \((u|u+v)\) construction recursively using the repetition code yields a family of \([2^m,m+1,2^{m-1}]\) codes for \(m\geq1\) that saturate the Griesmer bound [5; pg. 90].
- \(E_8\) Gosset lattice code — The \([8,4,4]\) extended Hamming code yields the \(E_8\) Gosset lattice code via the mod-two lattice construction [6; Ex. 10.5.2].
- \((u|u+v)\)-construction code — Starting with the \([6,3,3]\) shortened Hamming code and applying the \((u|u+v)\) construction recursively using the repetition code yields a family of \([2^m,m+1,2^{m-1}]\) codes for \(m\geq1\) that saturate the Griesmer bound [5; pg. 90].
- Octacode — The octacode reduces modulo-two to the \([8,4,4]\) extended Hamming code [7].
References
- [1]
- C. E. Shannon, “A Mathematical Theory of Communication”, Bell System Technical Journal 27, 379 (1948) DOI
- [2]
- R. W. Hamming, “Error Detecting and Error Correcting Codes”, Bell System Technical Journal 29, 147 (1950) DOI
- [3]
- M. J. E. Golay, Notes on digital coding, Proc. IEEE, 37 (1949) 657.
- [4]
- F. J. MacWilliams and N. J. A. Sloane. The theory of error correcting codes. Elsevier, 1977.
- [5]
- J. Bierbrauer, Introduction to Coding Theory (Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2016) DOI
- [6]
- T. Ericson, and V. Zinoviev, eds. Codes on Euclidean spheres. Elsevier, 2001.
- [7]
- Self-Dual Codes and Invariant Theory (Springer-Verlag, 2006) DOI
Page edit log
- Victor V. Albert (2022-12-21) — most recent
Cite as:
“\([7,4,3]\) Hamming code”, The Error Correction Zoo (V. V. Albert & P. Faist, eds.), 2022. https://errorcorrectionzoo.org/c/hamming743
Github: https://github.com/errorcorrectionzoo/eczoo_data/tree/main/codes/classical/bits/easy/hamming743.yml.