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Distributed storage systems must handle both data heterogeneity, arising from non-uniform access demands, and device heterogeneity, caused by time-varying node reliability. In this paper, we study convertible codes, which enable the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Anina Gruica , Benjamin Jany , Stanislav Kruglik

Data availability is one of the most important features in distributed storage systems, made possible by data replication. Nowadays data are generated rapidly and the goal to develop efficient, scalable and reliable storage systems has…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Chryssis Georgiou , Nicolas Nicolaou , Andria Trigeorgi

We introduce the Fixed Cluster Repair System (FCRS) as a novel architecture for Distributed Storage Systems (DSS), achieving a small repair bandwidth while guaranteeing a high availability. Specifically we partition the set of servers in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Saeid Sahraei , Michael Gastpar

A distributed quantum storage code maps a quantum message to N storage nodes, of arbitrary specified sizes, such that the stored message is robust to an arbitrary specified set of erasure patterns. The sizes of the storage nodes, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Hua Sun , Syed A. Jafar

Regenerating codes and codes with locality are two schemes that have recently been proposed to ensure data collection and reliability in a distributed storage network. In a situation where one is attempting to repair a failed node,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-05 Govinda M. Kamath , N. Prakash , V. Lalitha , P. Vijay Kumar

More than two decades ago, combinatorial topology was shown to be useful for analyzing distributed fault-tolerant algorithms in shared memory systems and in message passing systems. In this work, we show that combinatorial topology can also…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Armando Castañeda , Pierre Fraigniaud , Ami Paz , Sergio Rajsbaum , Matthieu Roy , Corentin Travers

Due to individual unreliable commodity components, failures are common in large-scale distributed storage systems. Erasure codes are widely deployed in practical storage systems to provide fault tolerance with low storage overhead. However,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Liangliang Xu , Min Lyu , Zhipeng Li , Yongkun Li , Yinlong Xu

We investigate the problem of maintaining an encoded distributed storage system when some nodes contain adversarial errors. Using the error-correction capabilities that are built into the existing redundancy of the system, we propose a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Theodoros K. Dikaliotis , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Tracey Ho

Regenerating code is a class of code very suitable for distributed storage systems, which can maintain optimal bandwidth and storage space. Two types of important regenerating code have been constructed: the minimum storage regeneration…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-10 Jian Li , Tongtong Li , Jian Ren

We investigate the service-rate region (SRR) of distributed storage systems that employ linear codes. We focus on systems where each server stores one code symbol, and a user recovers a data symbol by accessing any of its recovery groups,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Hoang Ly , Emina Soljanin

Massive data centers are at the heart of the Internet. The rapid growth of Internet traffic and the abundance of rich data-driven applications have raised the need for enormous network bandwidth. Towards meeting this growing traffic demand,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Maotong Xu , Jelena Diakonikolas , Eytan Modiano , Suresh Subramaniam

Data storage applications require erasure-correcting codes with prescribed sets of dependencies between data symbols and redundant symbols. The most common arrangement is to have $k$ data symbols and $h$ redundant symbols (that each depends…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Guangda Hu , Sergey Yekhanin

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

Error-correcting codes are usually envisioned to counter errors by operating unitary corrections depending on the projective measurement results of some syndrome observables. We here propose a way to use them in a more integrated way, where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-07 Vincent Martin , Alain Sarlette

We present the construction of a family of erasure correcting codes for distributed storage that achieve low repair bandwidth and complexity at the expense of a lower fault tolerance. The construction is based on two classes of codes, where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Siddhartha Kumar , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Iryna Andriyanova , Fredrik Brännström , Eirik Rosnes

The decomposition of large unitary matrices into smaller ones is important, because it provides ways to realization of classical and quantum information processing schemes. Today, most of the methods use planar meshes of tunable two-channel…

Locally repairable codes are desirable for distributed storage systems to improve the repair efficiency. In this paper, we first build a bridge between locally repairable code and packing. As an application of this bridge, some optimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-07 Han Cai , Minquan Cheng , Cuiling Fan , Xiaohu Tang

The amount of digital data is rapidly growing. There is an increasing use of a wide range of computer systems, from mobile devices to large-scale data centers, and important for reliable operation of all computer systems is mitigating the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Katina Kralevska

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 this paper, we propose locally repairable codes (LRCs) with optimal minimum distance for distributed storage systems (DSS). A two-layer encoding structure is employed to ensure data reconstruction and the designated repair locality. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-15 Hongmei Xie , Zhiyuan Yan