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We propose a generic transformation that can convert any nonbinary $(n=k+r,k)$ maximum distance separable (MDS) code into another $(n,k)$ MDS code over the same field such that 1) some arbitrarily chosen $r$ nodes have the optimal repair…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Jie Li , Xiaohu Tang , Chao Tian

Recently, the research on local repair codes is mainly confined to repair the failed nodes within each repair group. But if the extreme cases occur that the entire repair group has failed, the local code stored in the failed group need to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-10 Jing Wang , Zhiyuan Yan , Hongmei Xie

Maximally Recoverable Local Reconstruction Codes (LRCs) are codes designed for distributed storage to provide maximum resilience to failures for a given amount of storage redundancy and locality. An $(n,r,h,a,g)$-MR LRC has $n$ coordinates…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Manik Dhar , Sivakanth Gopi

An $(n,k,l)$ MDS array code of length $n,$ dimension $k=n-r$ and sub-packetization $l$ is formed of $l\times n$ matrices over a finite field $F,$ with every column of the matrix stored on a separate node in a distributed storage system and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-31 Min Ye , Alexander Barg

Typically, locally repairable codes (LRCs) and regenerating codes have been studied independently of each other, and it has not been clear how the parameters of one relate to those of the other. In this paper, a novel connection between…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Toni Ernvall , Thomas Westerbäck , Ragnar Freij-Hollanti , Camilla Hollanti

This work focuses on sequential locally recoverable codes (SLRCs), a special family of locally repairable codes, capable of correcting multiple code symbol erasures, which are commonly used for distributed storage systems. First, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Akram Baghban , Marc Newman , Anna-Lena Horlemann , Mehdi Ghiyasvand

Fractional repetition (FR) codes are a family of repair-efficient storage codes that provide exact and uncoded node repair at the minimum bandwidth regenerating point. The advantageous repair properties are achieved by a tailor-made…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Bing Zhu , Hui Li , Kenneth W. Shum , Shuo-Yen Robert Li

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

Partial-MDS (PMDS) codes are a family of locally repairable codes, mainly used for distributed storage. They are defined to be able to correct any pattern of $s$ additional erasures, after a given number of erasures per locality group have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-05 Anna-Lena Horlemann-Trautmann , Alessandro Neri

We present error-correcting codes that achieve the information-theoretically best possible trade-off between the rate and error-correction radius. Specifically, for every $0 < R < 1$ and $\eps> 0$, we present an explicit construction of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-10-08 Venkatesan Guruswami , Atri Rudra

The max-flow outer bound is achievable by regenerating codes for functional repair distributed storage system. However, the capacity of exact repair distributed storage system is an open problem. In this paper, the linear programming bound…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-16 Satyajit Thakor , Terence Chan , Kenneth W. Shum

An $(n,r,h,a,q)$-Local Reconstruction Code (LRC) is a linear code over $\mathbb{F}_q$ of length $n$, whose codeword symbols are partitioned into $n/r$ local groups each of size $r$. Each local group satisfies `$a$' local parity checks to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Sivakanth Gopi , Venkatesan Guruswami

This paper develops a new family of locally recoverable codes for distributed storage systems, Sequential Locally Recoverable Codes (SLRCs) constructed to handle multiple erasures in a sequential recovery approach. We propose a new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Akram Baghban , Mehdi Ghiyasvand

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

In a distributed storage network, reliability and bandwidth optimization can be provided by regenerating codes. Recently table based regenerating codes viz. DRESS (Distributed Replication-based Exact Simple Storage) codes has been proposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-18 Manish K Gupta , Anupam Agrawal , Deepak Yadav

To recover simultaneous multiple failures in erasure coded storage systems, Patrick Lee et al introduce concurrent repair based minimal storage regenerating codes to reduce repair traffic. The architecture of this approach is simpler and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-25 Huayu Zhang , Hui Li , Hanxu Hou , K. W. Shum , ShuoYen Robert Li

Node failures are inevitable in distributed storage systems (DSS). To enable efficient repair when faced with such failures, two main techniques are known: Regenerating codes, i.e., codes that minimize the total repair bandwidth; and codes…

MDS array codes are widely used in storage systems due to their computationally efficient encoding and decoding procedures. An MDS code with $r$ redundancy nodes can correct any $r$ node erasures by accessing all the remaining information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-04 Zhiying Wang , Itzhak Tamo , Jehoshua Bruck

For general exact repair regenerating codes, the optimal trade-offs between storage size and repair bandwith remain undetermined. Various outer bounds and partial results have been proposed. Using a simple chain rule argument we identify…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-04 Iwan M. Duursma

Distributed storage systems based on equidistant constant dimension codes are presented. These equidistant codes are based on the Pl\"{u}cker embedding, which is essential in the repair and the reconstruction algorithms. These systems…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-25 Netanel Raviv , Tuvi Etzion