“…In this way, a CC for the k th user can be denoted as C ( k ) , where k ∈{1,2,…, K } and K is the number of users supported. A CC can be represented by an M × N matrix C ( k ) , which unfolds as follows: where and m ∈{1,2,…, M } . Each CC C ( k ) consists of M element sequences , in which all element codes have the same length N and M is the flock size, which determines the number of element codes used by the same user.…”