“…More precisely, in Section 4 we consider constructions of CDCs based on rank metric codes. The results therein provide not only a generalization of several recent results [4,17,18,20,35,43], but they also offer a more general point of view with respect to techniques that have been previously investigated in the literature, as for instance the so called linkage construction [16,39]. In particular, by using rank metric codes in different variants, we are able to obtain CDCs that either give improved lower bounds for many parameters, including A 2 (12, 4; 4), A q (12, 6; 6), A q (4k, 2k; 2k), k ≥ 4 even, A q (10, 4; 5), or whose size matches the best known lower bounds.…”