Capacity of Locally Recoverable Codes
Abstract
Motivated by applications in distributed storage, the notion of a locally recoverable code (LRC) was introduced a few years back. In an LRC, any coordinate of a codeword is recoverable by accessing only a small number of other coordinates. While different properties of LRCs have been well-studied, their performance on channels with random erasures or errors has been mostly unexplored. In this paper, we analyze the performance of LRCs over such stochastic channels. In particular, for input-symmetric discrete memoryless channels, we give a tight characterization of the gap to Shannon capacity when LRCs are used over the channel. Our results hold for a general notion of LRCs that correct multiple local erasures.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1808.10262,
title = {Capacity of Locally Recoverable Codes},
author = {Arya Mazumdar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.10262},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
To appear in the Prof. Alexander Vardy Memorial Issue of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Information Theory