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Self-Repairing Codes for Distributed Storage - A Projective Geometric Construction

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing 2011-05-03 v1 Information Theory math.IT

Abstract

Self-Repairing Codes (SRC) are codes designed to suit the need of coding for distributed networked storage: they not only allow stored data to be recovered even in the presence of node failures, they also provide a repair mechanism where as little as two live nodes can be contacted to regenerate the data of a failed node. In this paper, we propose a new instance of self-repairing codes, based on constructions of spreads coming from projective geometry. We study some of their properties to demonstrate the suitability of these codes for distributed networked storage.

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@article{arxiv.1105.0379,
  title  = {Self-Repairing Codes for Distributed Storage - A Projective Geometric Construction},
  author = {Frederique Oggier and Anwitaman Datta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1105.0379},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

5 pages, 2 figures

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