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The complexity of software implementations of MDS erasure codes mainly depends on the efficiency of the finite field operations implementation. In this paper, we propose a method to reduce the complexity of the finite field multiplication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Jonathan Detchart , Jérôme Lacan

Erasure codes play an important role in storage systems to prevent data loss. In this work, we study a class of erasure codes called Multi-Erasure Locally Recoverable Codes (ME-LRCs) for storage arrays. Compared to previous related works,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-29 Pengfei Huang , Eitan Yaakobi , Paul H. Siegel

Fractional repetition (FR) codes is a family of codes for distributed storage systems that allow for uncoded exact repairs having the minimum repair bandwidth. However, in contrast to minimum bandwidth regenerating (MBR) codes, where a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-22 Natalia Silberstein , Tuvi Etzion

For high-rate maximum distance separable (MDS) codes, most of them are designed to optimally repair a single failed node by connecting all the surviving nodes. However, in practical systems, sometimes not all the surviving nodes are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Yi Liu , Jie Li , Xiaohu Tang

MDS convolutional codes have the property that their free distance is maximal among all codes of the same rate and the same degree. In this paper we introduce a class of MDS convolutional codes whose column distances reach the generalized…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2007-07-16 Heide Gluesing-Luerssen , Joachim Rosenthal , Roxana Smarandache

We introduce a definition for \emph{Families of Optimal Binary Non-MDS Erasure Codes} for $[n, k]$ codes over $GF(2)$, and propose an algorithm for finding those families by using hill climbing techniques over Balanced XOR codes. Due to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Danilo Gligoroski , Katina Kralevska

Generalized Reed-Solomon codes form the most prominent class of maximum distance separable (MDS) codes, codes that are optimal in the sense that their minimum distance cannot be improved for a given length and code size. The study of codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Shengwei Liu , Hongwei Liu , Frederique Oggier

Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) matrices play a central role in coding theory and symmetric-key cryptography due to their optimal diffusion properties. In this paper, we present a construction of MDS matrices using skew polynomial rings \(…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Atif Ahmad Khan , Shakir Ali , Elif Segah Oztas , Abhishek Kesarwani

Sum-rank metric codes, as a generalization of Hamming codes and rank metric codes, have important applications in fields such as multi-shot linear network coding, space-time coding and distributed storage systems. The purpose of this study…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Xuemei Liu , Jiarong Zhang , Gang Wang

The class of $\ell$-maximum distance separable ($\ell$-MDS) codes {is a} generalization of maximum distance separable (MDS) codes {that} has attracted a lot of attention due to its applications in several areas such as secret sharing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Yang Li , Shixin Zhu , Edgar Martínez-Moro

A class of one-dimensional convolutional codes will be presented. They are all MDS codes, i. e., have the largest distance among all one-dimensional codes of the same length n and overall constraint length delta. Furthermore, their extended…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Heide Gluesing-Luerssen , Barbara Langfeld

As storage systems grow in size, device failures happen more frequently than ever before. Given the commodity nature of hard drives employed, a storage system needs to tolerate a certain number of disk failures while maintaining data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-20 Yan Wang , Xunrui Yin , Xin Wang

The matrix completion problem provides a unifying lens through which many fundamental problems in coding theory can be viewed. In this paper, we investigate Locally Recoverable Codes (LRCs) with Maximal Recoverability (MR) and Maximum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Sakshi Dang , Julia Lieb , Pedro Soto , Alex Sprintson

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

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 novel technique for construction of minimum storage regenerating (MSR) codes is presented. Based on this technique, three explicit constructions of MSR codes are given. The first two constructions provide access-optimal MSR codes, with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-29 Netanel Raviv , Natalia Silberstein , Tuvi Etzion

We construct six new explicit families of linear maximum sum-rank distance (MSRD) codes, each of which has the smallest field sizes among all known MSRD codes for some parameter regime. Using them and a previous result of the author, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Umberto Martínez-Peñas

This paper considers distributed storage systems (DSSs) from a graph theoretic perspective. A DSS is constructed by means of the path decomposition of a 3- regular graph into P4 paths. The paths represent the disks of the DSS and the edges…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-04 Shuhong Gao , Fiona Knoll , Felice Manganiello , Gretchen Matthews

Binary array codes are widely used in storage systems to prevent data loss, such as the Redundant Array of Independent Disks~(RAID). Most designs for such codes, such as Blaum-Roth~(BR) codes and Independent-Parity~(IP) codes, are carried…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Leilei Yu , Yunghsiang S. Han , Jiasheng Yuan , Zhongpei Zhang

Array codes have been widely employed in storage systems, such as Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID). The row-diagonal parity (RDP) codes and EVENODD codes are two popular double-parity array codes. As the capacity of hard disks…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-12 Hanxu Hou , Yunghsiang S. Han , Kenneth W. Shum , Hui Li