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Regenerating codes are efficient methods for distributed storage in storage networks, where node failures are common. They guarantee low cost data reconstruction and repair through accessing only a predefined number of arbitrarily chosen…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-09 Kaveh Mahdaviani , Ashish Khisti , Soheil Mohajer

Regenerating code is a class of code very suitable for distributed storage systems, which can maintain optimal bandwidth and storage space. Two types of important regenerating code have been constructed: the minimum storage regeneration…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-10 Jian Li , Tongtong Li , Jian Ren

Distributed storage systems for large-scale applications typically use replication for reliability. Recently, erasure codes were used to reduce the large storage overhead, while increasing data reliability. A main limitation of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-06 Dimitris S. Papailiopoulos , Alexandros G. Dimakis

We consider the rack-aware storage system where \(n\) nodes are organized in \(\bar{n}\) racks each containing \(u\) nodes, and any \(k\) nodes can retrieve the stored file. Moreover, any single node erasure can be recovered by downloading…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Zhifang Zhang , Liyang Zhou

We consider the design of regenerating codes for distributed storage systems that enjoy the property of local, exact and uncoded repair, i.e., (a) upon failure, a node can be regenerated by simply downloading packets from the surviving…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-27 Oktay Olmez , Aditya Ramamoorthy

This chapter deals with the topic of designing reliable and efficient codes for the storage and retrieval of large quantities of data over storage devices that are prone to failure. For long, the traditional objective has been one of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Vinayak Ramkumar , Myna Vajha , S. B. Balaji , M. Nikhil Krishnan , Birenjith Sasidharan , P. Vijay Kumar

Modern distributed storage systems apply redundancy coding techniques to stored data. One form of redundancy is based on regenerating codes, which can minimize the repair bandwidth, i.e., the amount of data transferred when repairing a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-23 Yuchong Hu , Patrick P. C. Lee , Kenneth W. Shum

Distributed storage systems need to store data redundantly in order to provide some fault-tolerance and guarantee system reliability. Different coding techniques have been proposed to provide the required redundancy more efficiently than…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Lluis Pamies-Juarez , Henk D. L. Hollmann , Frédérique Oggier

This paper investigates the use of redundancy and self repairing against node failures in distributed storage systems, using various strategies. In replication method, access to one replication node is sufficient to reconstruct a lost node,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-10-03 Abbas Kiani , Soroush Akhlaghi

In distributed storage systems reliability is achieved through redundancy stored at different nodes in the network. Then a data collector can reconstruct source information even though some nodes fail. To maintain reliability, an autonomous…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-26 Majid Gerami , Ming Xiao , Mikael Skoglund , Kenneth W. Shum , Dengsheng Lin

Classical erasure codes, e.g. Reed-Solomon codes, have been acknowledged as an efficient alternative to plain replication to reduce the storage overhead in reliable distributed storage systems. Yet, such codes experience high overhead…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-06-20 Anne-Marie Kermarrec , Erwan Le Merrer , Gilles Straub , Alexandre van Kempen

We study the inherent space requirements of shared storage algorithms in asynchronous fault-prone systems. Previous works use codes to achieve a better storage cost than the well-known replication approach. However, a closer look reveals…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-07-21 Alexander Spiegelman , Yuval Cassuto , Gregory Chockler , Idit Keidar

Data centres that use consumer-grade disks drives and distributed peer-to-peer systems are unreliable environments to archive data without enough redundancy. Most redundancy schemes are not completely effective for providing high…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Vero Estrada-Galiñanes , Ethan Miller , Pascal Felber , Jehan-François Pâris

Machine learning (ML) is probably the first and foremost used technique to deal with the size and complexity of the new generation of data. In this paper, we analyze one of the means to increase the performances of ML algorithms which is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Imen Chakroun , Tom Vander Aa , Tom Ashby

We study the repair problem of distributed storage systems in erasure networks where the packets transmitted from surviving nodes to the new node might be lost. The fundamental storage-bandwidth tradeoff is calculated by multicasting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-30 Majid Gerami , Ming Xiao

Data availability is critical in distributed storage systems, especially when node failures are prevalent in real life. A key requirement is to minimize the amount of data transferred among nodes when recovering the lost or unavailable data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-06-07 Runhui Li , Jian Lin , Patrick P. C. Lee

Retrieving data from large-scale source code archives is vital for AI training, neural-based software analysis, and information retrieval, to cite a few. This paper studies and experiments with the design of a compressed key-value store for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Paolo Ferragina , Francesco Tosoni

The reliability of erasure-coded distributed storage systems, as measured by the mean time to data loss (MTTDL), depends on the repair bandwidth of the code. Repair-efficient codes provide reliability values several orders of magnitude…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Vaneet Aggarwal , Chao Tian , Vinay A. Vaishampayan , Yih-Farn R. Chen

The increasing demand for data storage has prompted the exploration of new techniques, with molecular data storage being a promising alternative. In this work, we develop coding schemes for a new storage paradigm that can be represented as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Boaz Moav , Ryan Gabrys , Eitan Yaakobi

Regenerating codes provide an efficient way to recover data at failed nodes in distributed storage systems. It has been shown that regenerating codes can be designed to minimize the per-node storage (called MSR) or minimize the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-14 Yunghsiang S. Han , Hong-Ta Pai , Rong Zheng , Pramod K. Varshney