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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

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

In order to correct the pair-errors generated during the transmission of modern high-density data storage that the outputs of the channels consist of overlapping pairs of symbols, a new coding scheme named symbol-pair code is proposed. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Xiujing Zheng , Liqi Wang , Shixin Zhu

We consider the use of distributed storage (DS) to reduce the communication cost of content delivery in wireless networks. Content is stored (cached) in a number of mobile devices using an erasure correcting code. Users retrieve content…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Jesper Pedersen , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Iryna Andriyanova , Fredrik Brännström

Higher order MDS codes are an interesting generalization of MDS codes recently introduced by Brakensiek, Gopi and Makam (IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory 2022). In later works, they were shown to be intimately connected to optimally list-decodable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Joshua Brakensiek , Manik Dhar , Sivakanth Gopi

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

We study exact-regenerating codes for entanglement-assisted distributed storage systems. Consider an $(n,k,d,\alpha,\beta_{\mathsf{q}},B)$ distributed system that stores a file of $B$ classical symbols across $n$ nodes with each node…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Lei Hu , Mohamed Nomeir , Alptug Aytekin , Sennur Ulukus

We study the problem of centralized exact repair of multiple failures in distributed storage. We describe constructions that achieve a new set of interior points under exact repair. The constructions build upon the layered code construction…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Marwen Zorgui , Zhiying Wang

Motivated by the application of Reed-Solomon codes to recently emerging decentralized storage systems such as Storj and Filebase/Sia, we study the problem of designing compact repair groups for recovering multiple failures in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Thi Xinh Dinh , Serdar Boztas , Son Hoang Dau , Emanuele Viterbo

In distributed storage systems that use coding, the issue of minimizing the communication required to rebuild a storage node after a failure arises. We consider the problem of repairing an erased node in a distributed storage system that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-09-20 Zhiying Wang , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Jehoshua Bruck

The $(n,k,d)$ regenerating code is a class of $(n,k)$ erasure codes with the capability to recover a lost code fragment from other $d$ existing code fragments. This paper concentrates on the design of exact regenerating codes at Minimum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-17 Sian-Jheng Lin , Wei-Ho Chung

EVENODD+ codes are binary maximum distance separable (MDS) array codes for correcting double disk failures in RAID-6 with asymptotically optimal encoding/decoding/update complexities. However, the number of bits stored in each disk of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Panyu Zhu

A locally repairable code is called Singleton-optimal if it achieves the Singleton-type bound. Such codes are of great theoretic interest in the study of locally repairable codes. In the recent years there has been a great amount of work on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Shu Liu , Tingyi Wu , Chaoping Xing , Chen Yuan

This work deals with partial MDS (PMDS) codes, a special class of locally repairable codes, used for distributed storage system. We first show that a known construction of these codes, using Gabidulin codes, can be extended to use any…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-19 Alessandro Neri , Anna-Lena Horlemann-Trautmann

This paper presents and analyzes a novel concatenated coding scheme for enabling error resilience in two distributed storage settings: one being storage using existing regenerating codes and the second being storage using locally repairable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-12 Natalia Silberstein , Ankit Singh Rawat , Sriram Vishwanath

Designing good error correcting codes whose generator matrix has a support constraint, i.e., one for which only certain entries of the generator matrix are allowed to be non-zero, has found many recent applications, including in distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Hikmet Yildiz , Babak Hassibi

In this letter, locally recoverable codes with maximal recoverability are studied with a focus on identifying the MDS codes resulting from puncturing and shortening. By using matroid theory and the relation between MDS codes and uniform…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Matthias Grezet , Thomas Westerbäck , Ragnar Freij-Hollanti , Camilla Hollanti

Locally repairable convolutional codes (LRCCs) for distributed storage systems (DSSs) are introduced in this work. They enable local repair, for a single node erasure (or more generally, $ \partial - 1 $ erasures per local group), and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Umberto Martínez-Peñas , Diego Napp

This paper presents a comprehensive study on the asymptotically optimal repair of Reed-Solomon (RS) codes with small sub-packetization, specifically tailored for rack-aware distributed storage systems. Through the utilization of multi-base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Ke Wang , Zhongyan Liu , Rengang Li , Yaqian Zhao , Yaqiang Zhang

A Maximum Distance Separable code over an alphabet $F$ is defined via an encoding function $C:F^k \rightarrow F^n$ that allows to retrieve a message $m \in F^k$ from the codeword $C(m)$ even after erasing any $n-k$ of its symbols. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Mira Gonen , Ishay Haviv , Michael Langberg , Alex Sprintson