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Maximum distance separable (MDS) codes have the optimal trade-off between storage efficiency and fault tolerance, which are widely used in distributed storage systems. As typical non-MDS codes, simple regenerating codes (SRCs) can achieve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Zhengyi Jiang , Hao Shi , Zhongyi Huang , Bo Bai , Gong Zhang , Hanxu Hou

A major issue of locally repairable codes is their robustness. If a local repair group is not able to perform the repair process, this will result in increasing the repair cost. Therefore, it is critical for a locally repairable code to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Ali Tebbi , Terence H. Chan , Chi Wan Sung

Piggybacking codes are a special class of MDS array codes that can achieve small repair bandwidth with small sub-packetization by first creating some instances of an $(n,k)$ MDS code, such as a Reed-Solomon (RS) code, and then designing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Zhengyi Jiang , Hanxu Hou , Yunghsiang S. Han , Patrick P. C. Lee , Bo Bai , Zhongyi Huang

In large data centers, storage nodes are organized in racks, and the cross-rack transmission dominates the bandwidth cost. For the repair of single node failures, codes achieving the tradeoff between the storage redundancy and cross-rack…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Liyang Zhou , Zhifang Zhang

Partial-MDS (PMDS) codes are a family of locally repairable codes, mainly used for distributed storage. They are defined to be able to correct any pattern of $s$ additional erasures, after a given number of erasures per locality group have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-05 Anna-Lena Horlemann-Trautmann , Alessandro Neri

Data availability is critical in distributed storage systems, especially when node failures are prevalent in real life. A key requirement is to minimize the amount of data transferred among nodes when recovering the lost or unavailable data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-06-07 Runhui Li , Jian Lin , Patrick P. C. Lee

Efficient node repair is a central requirement in distributed storage systems, particularly in high-rate erasure-coded deployments where repair traffic directly affects network overhead and recovery cost. Piggybacking codes reduce the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Hao Shi , Zhengyi Jiang , Gefeng Deng , Zhongyi Huang , Hanxu Hou

Partial MDS (PMDS) codes are erasure codes combining local (row) correction with global additional correction of entries, while Sector-Disk (SD) codes are erasure codes that address the mixed failure mode of current RAID systems. It has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-21 Mario Blaum , James S. Plank , Moshe Schwartz , Eitan Yaakobi

Several works have developed vector-linear maximum-distance separable (MDS) storage codes that min- imize the total communication cost required to repair a single coded symbol after an erasure, referred to as repair bandwidth (BW). Vector…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Karthikeyan Shanmugam , Dimitris S. Papailiopoulos , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Giuseppe Caire

Accessing the data in the failed disk (degraded read) with low latency is crucial for an erasure-coded storage system. In this work, the maximum distance separable (MDS) array code with the property of degraded-read friendly (DRF) is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Ting-Yi Wu , Yunghsiang S. Han , Zhengrui Li , Bo Bai , Gong Zhang , Liang Chen , Xiang Wu

This paper presents a novel coding scheme for distributed storage systems containing nodes with adversarial errors. The key challenge in such systems is the propagation of erroneous data from a single corrupted node to the rest of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-17 Natalia Silberstein , Ankit Singh Rawat , Sriram Vishwanath

In this paper, we consider heterogeneous distributed storage systems (DSSs) having flexible reconstruction degree, where each node in the system has dynamic repair bandwidth and dynamic storage capacity. In particular, a data collector can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-10 Krishna Gopal Benerjee , Manish K. Gupta

Codes for storage systems aim to minimize the repair locality, which is the number of disks (or nodes) that participate in the repair of a single failed disk. Simultaneously, the code must sustain a high rate, operate on a small finite…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-29 Sreechakra Goparaju , Robert Calderbank

The information-theoretic secure exact-repair regenerating codes for distributed storage systems (DSSs) with parameters $(n,k=d,d,\ell)$ are studied in this paper. We consider distributed storage systems with $n$ nodes, in which the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Adel Elmahdy , Michelle Kleckler , Soheil Mohajer

This paper studies the problem of repairing secret sharing schemes, i.e., schemes that encode a message into $n$ shares, assigned to $n$ nodes, so that any $n-r$ nodes can decode the message but any colluding $z$ nodes cannot infer any…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-05 Wentao Huang , Jehoshua Bruck

The problem of securing data against eavesdropping in distributed storage systems is studied. The focus is on systems that use linear codes and implement exact repair to recover from node failures.The maximum file size that can be stored…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-15 Sreechakra Goparaju , Salim El Rouayheb , Robert Calderbank , H. Vincent Poor

Regenerating codes allow distributed storage systems to recover from the loss of a storage node while transmitting the minimum possible amount of data across the network. We present a systematic computer search for optimal systematic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-10-14 Daniel Cullina , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Tracey Ho

Despite their exceptional error-correcting properties, Reed-Solomon (RS) codes have been overlooked in distributed storage applications due to the common belief that they have poor repair bandwidth: A naive repair approach would require the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Hoang Dau , Iwan Duursma , Han Mao Kiah , Olgica Milenkovic

The rack-aware storage model improves repair efficiency by exploiting locality within racks to minimize cross-rack traffic in a distributed storage system. While the partially cooperative repair model presents a solution for multiple node…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Hengming Zhao , Dianhua Wu , Minquan Cheng

An $(n,k,d)$ cooperative regenerating code provides the optimal-bandwidth repair for any $t~(t\!>\!1)$ node failures in a cooperative way. In particular, an MSCR (minimum storage cooperative regenerating) code retains the same storage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Yaqian Zhang , Zhifang Zhang