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Quantum maximum-distance-separable (MDS for short) codes are an important class of quantum codes. In this paper, by using Hermitian self-orthogonal generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS for short) codes, we construct five new classes of $q$-ary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Ruhao Wan , Shixin Zhu

In this paper, we propose locally repairable codes (LRCs) with optimal minimum distance for distributed storage systems (DSS). A two-layer encoding structure is employed to ensure data reconstruction and the designated repair locality. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-15 Hongmei Xie , Zhiyuan Yan

MDS codes and self-dual codes are important families of classical codes in coding theory. It is of interest to investigate MDS self-dual codes. The existence of MDS self-dual codes over finite field $F_q$ is completely solved for $q$ is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Ruhao Wan , Shixin Zhu , Jin Li

We study $q$-ary codes with distance defined by a partial order of the coordinates of the codewords. Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) codes in the poset metric have been studied in a number of earlier works. We consider codes that are close…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-05-03 Alexander Barg , Punarbasu Purkayastha

Maximum distance separable (MDS) and almost maximum distance separable (AMDS) codes have been widely used in various fields such as communication systems, data storage, and quantum codes because of their algebraic properties and excellent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Meiying Zhang , Shudi Yang , Yanbin Zheng

The idea of computational storage device (CSD) has come a long way since at least 1990s [1], [2]. By embedding computing resources within storage devices, CSDs could potentially offload computational tasks from CPUs and enable near-data…

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In general, array codes consist of $m\times n$ arrays and in many cases, the arrays satisfy parity constraints along lines of different slopes (generally with a toroidal topology). Such codes are useful for RAID type of architectures, since…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Mario Blaum , Steven R. Hetzler

It is well known that an (n,k) code can be used to store 'k' units of information in 'n' unit-capacity disks of a distributed data storage system. If the code used is maximum distance separable (MDS), then the system can tolerate any (n-k)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-06-08 Viveck R. Cadambe , Cheng Huang , Syed A. Jafar , Jin Li

Considerable interest has been paid in recent literature to codes combining local and global properties for erasure correction. Applications are in cloud type of implementations, in which fast recovery of a failed storage device is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-09 Mario Blaum , Steven R. Hetzler

A new ensemble of structured codes is introduced. These codes are called Quasi Linear Codes (QLC). The QLC's are constructed by taking subsets of linear codes. They have a looser structure compared to linear codes and are not closed under…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-16 F. Shirani , M. Heidari , S. S. Pradhan

In this paper we introduce a novel MDS array code with lowest density. In contrast to existing codes, this one has no restrictions on the size or the number of erasures it can correct. It is based on a simple matrix construction involving…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-07 Magnus Sandell , Filippo Tosato

Lifted maximum rank distance (MRD) codes, which are constant dimension codes, are considered. It is shown that a lifted MRD code can be represented in such a way that it forms a block design known as a transversal design. A slightly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Tuvi Etzion , Natalia Silberstein

MDS self-dual codes over finite fields have attracted a lot of attention in recent years by their theoretical interests in coding theory and applications in cryptography and combinatorics. In this paper we present a series of MDS self-dual…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Aixian Zhang , Keqin Feng

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

Perfect difference families (PDFs for short) are important both in theoretical and in applications. Perfect difference matrices (PDMs for short) and the equivalent structure had been extensively studied and used to construct perfect…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Xianwei Sun , Huangsheng Yu , Dianhua Wu

Self-dual maximum distance separable codes (self-dual MDS codes) and self-dual near MDS codes are very important in coding theory and practice. Thus, it is interesting to construct self-dual MDS or self-dual near MDS codes. In this paper,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Daitao Huang , Qin Yue , Yongfeng Niu , Xia Li

Minimal rank-metric codes or, equivalently, linear cutting blocking sets are characterized in terms of the second generalized rank weight, via their connection with evasiveness properties of the associated $q$-system. Using this result, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Daniele Bartoli , Giuseppe Marino , Alessandro Neri

In distributed storage systems that employ erasure coding, the issue of minimizing the total {\it communication} required to exactly rebuild a storage node after a failure arises. This repair bandwidth depends on the structure of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-06-09 Dimitris S. Papailiopoulos , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Viveck R. Cadambe

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

Owing to the massive growth in the storage demands of big data, Cloud Storage Systems (CSSs) have been put forward to improve the storage capacity. Compared with traditional storage systems, CSSs have lots of advantages, such as higher…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Zhao Jin , Hanpin Wang , Lei Zhang , Bowen Zhang , Kun Gao , Yongzhi Cao