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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

In the modern era of large-scale computing systems, a crucial use of error correcting codes is to judiciously introduce redundancy to ensure recoverability from failure. To get the most out of every byte, practitioners and theorists have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Joshua Brakensiek , Venkatesan Guruswami

Coding for distributed storage gives rise to a new set of problems in coding theory related to the need of reducing inter-node communication in the system. A large number of recent papers addressed the problem of optimizing the total amount…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-02 Itzhak Tamo , Min Ye , Alexander Barg

The locally repairable codes (LRCs) were introduced to correct erasures efficiently in distributed storage systems. LRCs are extensively studied recently. In this paper, we first deal with the open case remained in \cite{q} and derive an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Jun Zhang , Xin Wang , Gennian Ge

This paper deals with scalar linear index codes for canonical multiple unicast index coding problems where there is a source with K messages and there are K receivers each wanting a unique message and having symmetric (with respect to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-30 Roop Kumar Bhattaram , Mahesh Babu Vaddi , B. Sundar Rajan

Minimum storage regenerating (MSR) codes are MDS codes which allow for recovery of any single erased symbol with optimal repair bandwidth, based on the smallest possible fraction of the contents downloaded from each of the other symbols.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Venkatesan Guruswami , Haotian Jiang

Locally repairable codes (LRC) for distribute storage allow two approaches to locally repair multiple failed nodes: 1) parallel approach, by which each newcomer access a set of $r$ live nodes $(r$ is the repair locality$)$ to download data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-20 Wentu Song , Chau Yuen

MDS array codes are widely used in storage systems to protect data against erasures. We address the \emph{rebuilding ratio} problem, namely, in the case of erasures, what is the the fraction of the remaining information that needs to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-03-22 Itzhak Tamo , Zhiying Wang , 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

Locally repairable codes (LRCs) are considered with equal or unequal localities, local distances and local field sizes. An explicit two-layer architecture with a sum-rank outer code is obtained, having disjoint local groups and achieving…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Umberto Martínez-Peñas , Frank R. Kschischang

Motivated by applications of distributed storage systems to key-value stores, the multi-version coding problem was formulated to efficiently store frequently updated data in asynchronous decentralized storage systems. Inspired by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Ramy E. Ali , Viveck R. Cadambe

When a node in a distributed storage system fails, it needs to be promptly repaired to maintain system integrity. While typical erasure codes can provide a significant storage advantage over replication, they suffer from poor repair…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Geonu Kim , Jungwoo Lee

In this paper, we introduce a model of a single-failure locally recoverable distributed storage system. This model appears to give rise to a problem seemingly dual of the well-studied index coding problem. The relation between the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-12 Arya Mazumdar

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

Locally repairable codes (LRCs) have attracted a lot of attention due to their applications in distributed storage systems. In this paper, we provide new constructions of optimal $(2, \delta)$-LRCs over $\mathbb{F}_q$ with flexible…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Yuan Gao , Weijun Fang , Jingke Xu , Dong Wang , Sihuang Hu

In distributed storage systems built using commodity hardware, it is necessary to have data redundancy in order to ensure system reliability. In such systems, it is also often desirable to be able to quickly repair storage nodes that fail.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-01-24 Joseph C. Koo , John Gill

Constructing Reed-Solomon (RS) codes that can correct insertion and deletion (ins-del) errors has been the focus of several recent studies. However, efficient decoding algorithms for such codes have received less attention and remain a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Shubhransh Singhvi

In distributed optimization problems, a technique called gradient coding, which involves replicating data points, has been used to mitigate the effect of straggling machines. Recent work has studied approximate gradient coding, which…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-08-09 Margalit Glasgow , Mary Wootters

In this paper, we propose a novel cooperative repair scheme for Zigzag MSR codes with optimal repair bandwidth, enabling the repair of any h failed nodes. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first optimal cooperative repair scheme for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Yajuan Liu , Han Cai , Xiaohu Tang

Locally repairable codes (LRCs) have recently been widely used in distributed storage systems and the LRCs with $(r,\delta)$-locality ($(r,\delta)$-LRCs) attracted a lot of interest for tolerating multiple erasures. Ge et al. constructed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Yaxin Wang , Siman Yang