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The continuously increasing amount of digital data generated by today's society asks for better storage solutions. This survey looks at a new generation of coding techniques designed specifically for the needs of distributed networked…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-01-31 Anwitaman Datta , Frederique Oggier

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

We study the problem of centralized exact repair of multiple failures in distributed storage. We describe constructions that achieve a new set of interior points under exact repair. The constructions build upon the layered code construction…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Marwen Zorgui , Zhiying Wang

Petabyte-scale distributed storage systems are currently transitioning to erasure codes to achieve higher storage efficiency. Classical codes like Reed-Solomon are highly sub-optimal for distributed environments due to their high overhead…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-07 Itzhak Tamo , Dimitris S. Papailiopoulos , Alexandros G. Dimakis

Locally repairable codes with availability have become essential components in modern large-scale distributed cloud storage systems and numerous other applications. In this paper, we focus on the construction of locally repairable codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Junjie Huang , Chang-An Zhao

A code is said to be a Locally Recoverable Code (LRC) with availability if every coordinate can be recovered from multiple disjoint sets of other coordinates called recovering sets. The vector of sizes of recovering sets of a coordinate is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Sourbh Bhadane , Andrew Thangaraj

In this paper, a link between polymatroid theory and locally repairable codes (LRCs) is established. The codes considered here are completely general in that they are subsets of $A^n$, where $A$ is an arbitrary finite set. Three classes of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-12 Thomas Westerbäck , Ragnar Freij-Hollanti , Camilla Hollanti

Erasure coding techniques are used to increase the reliability of distributed storage systems while minimizing storage overhead. Also of interest is minimization of the bandwidth required to repair the system following a node failure. In a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-10-06 K. V. Rashmi , Nihar B. Shah , P. Vijay Kumar , Kannan Ramchandran

Distributed storage systems provide reliable access to data through redundancy spread over individually unreliable nodes. Application scenarios include data centers, peer-to-peer storage systems, and storage in wireless networks. Storing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2008-03-06 Alexandros G. Dimakis , P. Brighten Godfrey , Yunnan Wu , Martin J. Wainwright , Kannan Ramchandran

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

In this paper, we study the notion of {\em codes with hierarchical locality} that is identified as another approach to local recovery from multiple erasures. The well-known class of {\em codes with locality} is said to possess hierarchical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-28 Birenjith Sasidharan , Gaurav Kumar Agarwal , P. Vijay Kumar

Self-Repairing Codes (SRC) are codes designed to suit the need of coding for distributed networked storage: they not only allow stored data to be recovered even in the presence of node failures, they also provide a repair mechanism where as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-05-03 Frederique Oggier , Anwitaman Datta

We prove that a class of distance-optimal local reconstruction codes (LRCs), an important family of repair-efficient codes for distributed storage systems, achieve the maximum distance separable private information retrieval capacity for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Siddhartha Kumar , Hsuan-Yin Lin , Eirik Rosnes , Alexandre Graell i Amat

We extend the notion of locality from the Hamming metric to the rank and subspace metrics. Our main contribution is to construct a class of array codes with locality constraints in the rank metric. Our motivation for constructing such codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Swanand Kadhe , Salim El Rouayheb , Iwan Duursma , Alex Sprintson

Regeneration codes with exact-repair property for distributed storage systems is studied in this paper. For exact- repair problem, the achievable points of ({\alpha},{\beta}) tradeoff match with the outer bound only for minimum storage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-08 Mehran Elyasi , Soheil Mohajer

Recently, locally repairable codes has gained significant interest for their potential applications in distributed storage systems. However, most constructions in existence are over fields with size that grows with the number of servers,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Matthias Grezet , Ragnar Freij-Hollanti , Thomas Westerbäck , Oktay Olmez , Camilla Hollanti

In this paper, codes with locality for four erasures are considered. An upper bound on the rate of codes with locality with sequential recovery from four erasures is derived. The rate bound derived here is field independent. An optimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-04 S. B. Balaji , K. P. Prasanth , P. Vijay Kumar

We present simple constructions of optimal erasure-correcting LRC codes by exhibiting their parity-check matrices. When the number of local parities in a parity group plus the number of global parities is smaller than the size of the parity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-22 Mario Blaum

Locally repairable codes (LRCs) play a crucial role in mitigating data loss in large-scale distributed and cloud storage systems. This paper establishes a unified decomposition theorem for general optimal $(r,\delta)$-LRCs. Based on this,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Kun Zhou , Meng Cao

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