spaces, model degrading storage systems well. While such codes have previously been
studied for their algebraic properties (eg, existence of perfect codes) or in the case of
unbounded alphabet sizes, we focus on the case of finite alphabets, and generalize the
Gilbert-Varshamov, sphere-packing, Elias-Bassalygo, and first linear programming bounds
to that setting. In the latter case, our proof is also the first for the non-symmetric mono …