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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

Maximum distance separable (MDS) are constructed to required specifications. The codes are explicitly given over finite fields with efficient encoding and decoding algorithms. Series of such codes over finite fields with ratio of distance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Ted Hurley , Donny Hurley , Barry Hurley

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

Maximum distance separable (MDS) codes facilitate the achievement of elevated levels of fault tolerance in storage systems while incurring minimal redundancy overhead. Reed-Solomon (RS) codes are typical MDS codes with the sub-packetization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Hao Shi , Zhengyi Jiang , Zhongyi Huang , Bo Bai , Gong Zhang , Hanxu Hou

We consider a set up where a file of size M is stored in n distributed storage nodes, using an (n,k) minimum storage regenerating (MSR) code, i.e., a maximum distance separable (MDS) code that also allows efficient exact-repair of any…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-04-27 Viveck R. Cadambe , Syed A. Jafar , Hamed Maleki

A code construction and repair scheme for optimal functional regeneration of multiple node failures is presented, which is based on stitching together short MDS codes on carefully chosen sets of points lying on a linearized polynomial. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Nitish Mital , Katina Kralevska , Cong Ling , Deniz Gunduz

In distributed storage, erasure codes -- like Reed-Solomon Codes -- are often employed to provide reliability. In this setting, it is desirable to be able to repair one or more failed nodes while minimizing the repair bandwidth. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-20 Jay Mardia , Burak Bartan , Mary Wootters

This paper studies the design of codes for distributed storage systems (DSS) that enable local repair in the event of node failure. This paper presents locally repairable codes based on low degree multivariate polynomials. Its code…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-04-30 Ankit Singh Rawat , Sriram Vishwanath

Partial MDS (PMDS) and sector-disk (SD) codes are classes of erasure correcting codes that combine locality with strong erasure correction capabilities. We construct PMDS and SD codes with local regeneration where each local code is a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Lukas Holzbaur , Sven Puchinger , Eitan Yaakobi , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

Piggybacking is an efficient method to decrease the repair bandwidth of Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) codes or Minimum Storage Regenerating (MSR) codes. In this paper, for minimizing the repair bandwidth of parity nodes of the known MSR…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-26 Bin Yang , Xiaohu Tang , Jie Li

Fast and efficient failure recovery is a new challenge for cloud storage systems with a large number of storage nodes. A pivotal recovery metric upon the failure of a storage node is repair bandwidth cost which refers to the amount of data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Mahdi Hajiaghayi , Hamid Jafarkhani

Symbol-pair code is a new coding framework which is proposed to correct errors in the symbol-pair read channel. In particular, maximum distance separable (MDS) symbol-pair codes are a kind of symbol-pair codes with the best possible…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-10 Shuxing Li , Gennian Ge

A novel coding scheme for exact repair-regenerating codes is presented in this paper. The codes proposed in this work can trade between the repair bandwidth of nodes (number of downloaded symbols from each surviving node in a repair…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Mehran Elyasi , Soheil Mohajer

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

In order to provide high data reliability, distributed storage systems disperse data with redundancy to multiple storage nodes. Regenerating codes is a new class of erasure codes to introduce redundancy for the purpose of improving the data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-18 Kenneth W. Shum , Yuchong Hu

Two widely studied models of multiple-node repair in distributed storage systems are centralized repair and cooperative repair. The centralized model assumes that all the failed nodes are recreated in one location, while the cooperative one…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Min Ye , Alexander Barg

We study the performance of Reed-Solomon (RS) codes for the \em exact repair problem \em in distributed storage. Our main result is that, in some parameter regimes, Reed-Solomon codes are optimal regenerating codes, among MDS codes with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-10 Venkatesan Guruswami , Mary Wootters

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…

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

The minimum storage rack-aware regenerating (MSRR) code is a variation of regenerating codes that achieves the optimal repair bandwidth for a single node failure in the rack-aware model. The authors in~\cite{Chen-Barg2019}…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Jiaojiao Wang , Dabin Zheng , Shenghua Li