GDSP: A Graphical Perspective on the Distributed Storage Systems
Abstract
The classical distributed storage problem can be modeled by a k-uniform {\it complete} hyper-graph where vertices represent servers and hyper-edges represent users. Hence each hyper-edge should be able to recover the full file using only the memories of the vertices associated with it. This paper considers the generalization of this problem to {\it arbitrary} hyper-graphs and to the case of multiple files, where each user is only interested in one, a problem we will refer to as the graphical distributed storage problem (GDSP). Specifically, we make progress in the analysis of minimum-storage codes for two main subproblems of the GDSP which extend the classical model in two independent directions: the case of an arbitrary graph with multiple files, and the case of an arbitrary hyper-graph with a single file.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1702.04525,
title = {GDSP: A Graphical Perspective on the Distributed Storage Systems},
author = {Saeid Sahraei and Michael Gastpar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.04525},
year = {2017}
}