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Distributed storage systems must handle both data heterogeneity, arising from non-uniform access demands, and device heterogeneity, caused by time-varying node reliability. In this paper, we study convertible codes, which enable the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Anina Gruica , Benjamin Jany , Stanislav Kruglik

Regenerating codes (RCs) can significantly reduce the repair-bandwidth of distributed storage networks. Initially, the analysis of RCs was based on the assumption that during the repair process, the newcomer does not distinguish (among all…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Imad Ahmad , Chih-Chun Wang

We present the construction of a family of erasure correcting codes for distributed storage that achieve low repair bandwidth and complexity at the expense of a lower fault tolerance. The construction is based on two classes of codes, where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Siddhartha Kumar , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Iryna Andriyanova , Fredrik Brännström , Eirik Rosnes

This paper considers a distributed storage system, where multiple storage nodes can be reconstructed simultaneously at a centralized location. This centralized multi-node repair (CMR) model is a generalization of regenerating codes that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-16 Ankit Singh Rawat , O. Ozan Koyluoglu , Sriram Vishwanath

In large scale distributed storage systems (DSS) deployed in cloud computing, correlated failures resulting in simultaneous failure (or, unavailability) of blocks of nodes are common. In such scenarios, the stored data or a content of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-30 Gokhan Calis , O. Ozan Koyluoglu

Efficient node repair is a central requirement in distributed storage systems, particularly in high-rate erasure-coded deployments where repair traffic directly affects network overhead and recovery cost. Piggybacking codes reduce the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Hao Shi , Zhengyi Jiang , Gefeng Deng , Zhongyi Huang , Hanxu Hou

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

Minimum-Storage Regenerating (MSR) codes have emerged as a viable alternative to Reed-Solomon (RS) codes as they minimize the repair bandwidth while they are still optimal in terms of reliability and storage overhead. Although several MSR…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Katina Kralevska , Danilo Gligoroski , Rune E. Jensen , Harald Øverby

In this paper we consider distributed allocation problems with memory constraint limits. Firstly, we propose a tractable relaxation to the problem of optimal symmetric allocations from [1]. The approximated problem is based on the Q-error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-17 Iryna Andriyanova , Pablo M. Olmos

Distributed storage systems with replication are well known for storing large amount of data. A large number of replication is done in order to provide reliability. This makes the system expensive. Various methods have been proposed over…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-10-01 Mit Sheth , Krishna Gopal Benerjee , Manish K. Gupta

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

In a realistic distributed storage environment, storage nodes are usually placed in racks, a metallic support designed to accommodate electronic equipment. It is known that the communication (bandwidth) cost between nodes which are in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-25 Bernat Gastón , Jaume Pujol , Mercè Villanueva

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 study the trade-off between storage overhead and inter-cluster repair bandwidth in clustered storage systems, while recovering from multiple node failures within a cluster. A cluster is a collection of $m$ nodes, and there are $n$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-21 Vitaly Abdrashitov , N. Prakash , Muriel Médard

Due to individual unreliable commodity components, failures are common in large-scale distributed storage systems. Erasure codes are widely deployed in practical storage systems to provide fault tolerance with low storage overhead. However,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Liangliang Xu , Min Lyu , Zhipeng Li , Yongkun Li , Yinlong Xu

We address the use of maximum distance separable (MDS) codes for distributed storage (DS) to enable efficient content delivery in wireless networks. Content is stored in a number of the mobile devices and can be retrieved from them using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-30 Amina Piemontese , Alexandre Graell i Amat

We propose a generic transformation that can convert any nonbinary $(n=k+r,k)$ maximum distance separable (MDS) code into another $(n,k)$ MDS code over the same field such that 1) some arbitrarily chosen $r$ nodes have the optimal repair…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Jie Li , Xiaohu Tang , Chao Tian

In cache-aided networks, the server populates the cache memories at the users during low-traffic periods, in order to reduce the delivery load during peak-traffic hours. In turn, there exists a fundamental trade-off between the delivery…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Abdelrahman M. Ibrahim , Ahmed A. Zewail , Aylin Yener

The effect of redundancy on the aging of an efficient Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) parity--protected distributed storage system that consists of multidimensional arrays of storage units is explored. In light of the experimental…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-04 Suayb S. Arslan

Regenerating codes and codes with locality are two schemes that have recently been proposed to ensure data collection and reliability in a distributed storage network. In a situation where one is attempting to repair a failed node,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-05 Govinda M. Kamath , N. Prakash , V. Lalitha , P. Vijay Kumar