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We consider high-order splitting schemes for large-scale differential Riccati equations. Such equations arise in many different areas and are especially important within the field of optimal control. In the large-scale case, it is critical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-14 Tony Stillfjord

Distributed storage systems such as Hadoop File System or Google File System (GFS) ensure data availability and durability using replication. This paper is focused on the analysis of the efficiency of replication mechanism that determines…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Wen Sun , Véronique Simon , Sébastien Monnet , Philippe Robert , Pierre Sens

A major concern in cloud/edge storage systems is serving a large number of users simultaneously. The service rate region is introduced recently as an important performance metric for coded distributed systems, which is defined as the set of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Fatemeh Kazemi , Sascha Kurz , Emina Soljanin , Alex Sprintson

We study the problem of storing a data object in a set of data nodes that fail independently with given probabilities. Our problem is a natural generalization of a homogenous storage allocation problem where all the nodes had the same…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-09 Vasileios Ntranos , Giuseppe Caire , Alexandros G. Dimakis

This paper presents several new construction techniques for low-density parity-check (LDPC) and systematic repeat-accumulate (RA) codes. Based on specific classes of combinatorial designs, the improved code design focuses on high-rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Alexander Gruner , Michael Huber

The ability to express a program as a hierarchical composition of parts is an essential tool in managing the complexity of software and a key abstraction this provides is to separate the representation of data from the computation. Many…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2012-10-04 James Hanlon , Simon J. Hollis , David May

Building storage systems has remained the domain of systems experts for many years. They are complex and difficult to implement. Extreme care is needed to ensure necessary guarantees of performance and operational correctness. Furthermore,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Daniel G. Waddington

In recent years, several classes of codes are introduced to provide some fault-tolerance and guarantee system reliability in distributed storage systems, among which locally repairable codes (LRCs for short) play an important role. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Jingxue Ma , Gennian Ge

In order to accommodate the ever-growing data from various, possibly independent, sources and the dynamic nature of data usage rates in practical applications, modern cloud data storage systems are required to be scalable, flexible, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Siyi Yang , Ahmed Hareedy , Robert Calderbank , Lara Dolecek

To accommodate the needs of large-scale distributed P2P systems, scalable data management strategies are required, allowing applications to efficiently cope with continuously growing, highly dis tributed data. This paper addresses the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2009-09-30 Bogdan Nicolae , Gabriel Antoniu , Luc Bougé

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

Manycore SoC architectures based on on-chip shared memory are preferred for flexible and programmable solutions in many application domains. However, the development of many ported memory is becoming increasingly challenging as we approach…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Hao Luan , Alan Gatherer

Ever-increasing amounts of data are created and processed in internet-scale companies such as Google, Facebook, and Amazon. The efficient storage of such copious amounts of data has thus become a fundamental and acute problem in modern…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Natalia Silberstein , Tuvi Etzion , Moshe Schwartz

Edge-centric distributed computations have appeared as a recent technique to improve the shortcomings of think-like-a-vertex algorithms on large scale-free networks. In order to increase parallelism on this model, edge partitioning -…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Sebastian Schlag , Christian Schulz , Daniel Seemaier , Darren Strash

This paper addresses the transmission network expansion planning problem considering storage units under uncertain demand and generation capacity. A two-stage adaptive robust optimization framework is adopted whereby short- and long-term…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Álvaro García-Cerezo , Luis Baringo , Raquel García-Bertrand

Encoding data as a set of unordered strings is receiving great attention as it captures one of the basic features of DNA storage systems. However, the challenge of constructing optimal redundancy codes for this channel remained elusive. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Jin Sima , Netanel Raviv , Jehoshua Bruck

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

As the share of renewable sources is increasing the need for multiple storage units appropriately sized and located is essential to achieve better inertial response. This work focuses on the question of "how to distribute constant number of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-26 Ram Machlev , Nilanjan Roy Chowdhury , Juri Belikov , Yoash Levron

A new class of exact-repair regenerating codes is constructed by combining two layers of erasure correction codes together with combinatorial block designs, e.g., Steiner systems, balanced incomplete block designs and t-designs. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-20 Chao Tian , Vaneet Aggarwal , Vinay A. Vaishampayan

Designing a rate limiter that is simultaneously accurate, available, and scalable presents a fundamental challenge in distributed systems, primarily due to the trade-offs between algorithmic precision, availability, consistency, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Bo Guan