Optimal conflict-avoiding codes for 3, 4 and 5 active users

Abstract

Conflict-avoiding codes are used in multiple-access collision channels without feedback. The number of codewords in a conflict-avoiding code is the number of potential users of the channel. That is why codes with maximum cardinality (optimal codes) for given parameters are of interest. In this paper we classify, up to multiplier equivalence, all optimal conflict-avoiding codes of weights 3, 4, and 5 and given small lengths. We also determine some previously unknown values of the maximum cardinality of conflict-avoiding codes of weights 4 and 5.