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Cooperative regenerating codes are regenerating codes designed to tradeoff storage for repair bandwidth in case of multiple node failures. Minimum storage cooperative regenerating (MSCR) codes are a class of cooperative regenerating codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Bh. Rekha Devi , V. Lalitha

Digital contents in large scale distributed storage systems may have different reliability and access delay requirements, and for this reason, erasure codes with different strengths need to be utilized to achieve the best storage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-29 Chao Tian , Tie Liu

Consider a binary maximum distance separable (MDS) array code composed of an $m\times (k+r)$ array of bits with $k$ information columns and $r$ parity columns, such that any $k$ out of $k+r$ columns suffice to reconstruct the $k$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Hanxu Hou , Patrick P. C. Lee

In distributed storage systems (DSSs), the optimal tradeoff between node storage and repair bandwidth is an important issue for designing distributed coding strategies to ensure large scale data reliability. The capacity of DSSs is obtained…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-11 Jingzhao Wang , Tinghan Wang , Yuan Luo , Kenneth W. Shum

For an $(n,k,\ell)$ MDS array code over $\mathbb{F}_q$, how small can the repair bandwidth and repair I/O be under linear exact repair? We study this question in the regime where the field size $q$, the redundancy $r=n-k$, and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Hai Liu , Huawei Wu

We study the data reliability problem for a community of devices forming a mobile cloud storage system. We consider the application of regenerating codes for file maintenance within a geographically-limited area. Such codes require lower…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Gokhan Calis , Swetha Shivaramaiah , O. Ozan Koyluoglu , Loukas Lazos

In this paper, we study distributed storage problems over unidirectional ring networks, whose storage nodes form a directed ring and data is transmitted along the same direction. The original data is distributed to store on these nodes.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-15 Jiyong Lu , Xuan Guang , Fang-Wei Fu

In a modern distributed storage system, storage nodes are organized in racks, and the cross-rack communication dominates the system bandwidth. In We study the rack-aware storage system where all storage nodes are organized in racks and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Liyang Zhou , Zhifang Zhang

Erasure codes are being increasingly used in distributed-storage systems in place of data-replication, since they provide the same level of reliability with much lower storage overhead. We consider the problem of constructing explicit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-08 Preetum Nakkiran , K. V. Rashmi , Kannan Ramchandran

$\epsilon$-Minimum Storage Regenerating ($\epsilon$-MSR) codes form a special class of Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) codes, providing mechanisms for exact regeneration of a single code block in their codewords by downloading slighly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Venkatesan Guruswami , Satyanarayana V. Lokam , Sai Vikneshwar Mani Jayaraman

In large-scale distributed storage systems, erasure coding is employed to ensure reliability against disk failures. Recent work by Kadekodi et al. demonstrates that adapting code parameters to varying disk failure rates can lead to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Vinayak Ramkumar , Xiangliang Kong , G. Yeswanth Sai , Myna Vajha , M. Nikhil Krishnan

As a special class of array codes, $(n,k,m)$ piggybacking codes are MDS codes (i.e., any $k$ out of $n$ nodes can retrieve all data symbols) that can achieve low repair bandwidth for single-node failure with low sub-packetization $m$. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Hao Shi , Zhengyi Jiang , Zhongyi Huang , Bo Bai , Hanxu Hou

Cooperative MSR codes are a kind of storage codes which enable optimal-bandwidth repair of any $h\geq2$ node erasures in a cooperative way, while retaining the minimum storage as an $[n,k]$ MDS code. Each code coordinate (node) is assumed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Yaqian Zhang , Jingke Xu

Erasure codes have emerged as an efficient technology for providing data redundancy in distributed storage systems. However, it is a challenging task to repair the failed storage nodes in erasure-coded storage systems, which requires large…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Bing Zhu , Kenneth W. Shum , Hui Li

In this paper, we propose a novel cooperative repair scheme for Zigzag MSR codes with optimal repair bandwidth, enabling the repair of any h failed nodes. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first optimal cooperative repair scheme for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Yajuan Liu , Han Cai , Xiaohu Tang

In modern practical data centers, storage nodes are usually organized into equally sized groups, which is called racks. The cost of cross-rack communication is much more expensive compared with the intra-rack communication cost. The codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Lingfei Jin , Gaojun Luo , Chaoping Xing

An $(n,k,l)$ MDS array code of length $n,$ dimension $k=n-r$ and sub-packetization $l$ is formed of $l\times n$ matrices over a finite field $F,$ with every column of the matrix stored on a separate node in a distributed storage system and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-31 Min Ye , Alexander Barg

This short note revisits the problem of designing secure minimum storage regenerating (MSR) codes for distributed storage systems. A secure MSR code ensures that a distributed storage system does not reveal the stored information to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-08 Ankit Singh Rawat

Heterogeneous Distributed Storage Systems (DSSs) are close to the real world applications for data storage. Each node of the considered DSS, may store different number of packets and each having different repair bandwidth with uniform…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-22 Krishna Gopal Benerjee , Manish K. Gupta

In the context of distributed storage systems, locally repairable codes have become important. In this paper we focus on codes that allow for multi-erasure pattern decoding with low computational effort. Different optimality requirements,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Margreta Kuijper , Julia Lieb , Diego Napp