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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

In a distributed storage systems (DSS) with $k$ systematic nodes, robustness against node failure is commonly provided by storing redundancy in a number of other nodes and performing repair mechanism to reproduce the content of the failed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-01 Kaveh Mahdaviani , Soheil Mohajer , Ashish Khisti

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

Distributed storage systems often introduce redundancy to increase reliability. When coding is used, the repair problem arises: if a node storing encoded information fails, in order to maintain the same level of reliability we need to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-04-27 Alexandros G. Dimakis , Kannan Ramchandran , Yunnan Wu , Changho Suh

Practical storage systems often adopt erasure codes to tolerate device failures and sector failures, both of which are prevalent in the field. However, traditional erasure codes employ device-level redundancy to protect against sector…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-24 Mingqiang Li , Patrick P. C. Lee

The rack-aware storage model improves repair efficiency by exploiting locality within racks to minimize cross-rack traffic in a distributed storage system. While the partially cooperative repair model presents a solution for multiple node…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Hengming Zhao , Dianhua Wu , Minquan Cheng

Erasure coding is widely used for massive storage in data centers to achieve high fault tolerance and low storage redundancy. Since the cross-rack communication cost is often high, it is critical to design erasure codes that minimize the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Hanxu Hou , Patrick P. C. Lee , Kenneth W. Shum , Yuchong Hu

In a distributed storage system based on erasure coding, an important problem is the \emph{repair problem}: If a node storing a coded piece fails, in order to maintain the same level of reliability, we need to create a new encoded piece and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yunnan Wu

In an $(n,k,d)$ rack-aware storage model, the system consists of $n$ nodes uniformly distributed across $\bar{n}$ successive racks, such that each rack contains $u$ nodes of equal capacity and the reconstructive degree satisfies…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Hengming Zhao , Dianhua Wu , Minquan Cheng

There are multiple performance metrics in the design of coding schemes for distributed storage systems. The first metric is called repair bandwidth, which measures the network resources required during the repair process. Another critical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Minhan Gao , Kenneth Shum

We introduce a new class of exact Minimum-Bandwidth Regenerating (MBR) codes for distributed storage systems, characterized by a low-complexity uncoded repair process that can tolerate multiple node failures. These codes consist of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-10-14 Salim El Rouayheb , Kannan Ramchandran

MDS codes are erasure-correcting codes that can correct the maximum number of erasures for a given number of redundancy or parity symbols. If an MDS code has $r$ parities and no more than $r$ erasures occur, then by transmitting all the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-25 Zhiying Wang , Itzhak Tamo , Jehoshua Bruck

The explosion in the volumes of data being stored online has resulted in distributed storage systems transitioning to erasure coding based schemes. Yet, the codes being deployed in practice are fairly short. In this work, we address what we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-22 Parikshit Gopalan , Guangda Hu , Swastik Kopparty , Shubhangi Saraf , Carol Wang , Sergey Yekhanin

RAID proposal advocated replacing large disks with arrays of PC disks, but as the capacity of small disks increased 100-fold in 1990s the production of large disks was discontinued. Storage dependability is increased via replication or…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Alexander Thomasian

Array codes have been widely used in communication and storage systems. To reduce computational complexity, one important property of the array codes is that only XOR operation is used in the encoding and decoding process. In this work, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-01 Hanxu Hou , Yunghsiang S. Han

In this paper we address issues of reliability of RAID systems. We focus on "big data" systems with a large number of drives and advanced error correction schemes beyond \RAID{6}. Our RAID paradigm is based on Reed-Solomon codes, and thus…

Performance · Computer Science 2012-02-21 Sarah Edge Mann , Michael Anderson , Marek Rychlik

Minimum storage regenerating (MSR) codes, with the MDS property and the optimal repair bandwidth, are widely used in distributed storage systems (DSS) for data recovery. In this paper, we consider the construction of $(n,k,l)$ MSR codes in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Shenghua Li , Maximilien Gadouleau , Jiaojiao Wang , Dabin Zheng

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

Maximum distance separable (MDS) codes are optimal error-correcting codes in the sense that they provide the maximum failure-tolerance for a given number of parity nodes. Suppose that an MDS code with $k$ information nodes and $r=n-k$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-11 Min Ye , Alexander Barg

Regenerating codes are a class of codes proposed for providing reliability of data and efficient repair of failed nodes in distributed storage systems. In this paper, we address the fundamental problem of handling errors and erasures during…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-20 K. V. Rashmi , Nihar B. Shah , Kannan Ramchandran , P. Vijay Kumar