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Classical erasure codes, e.g. Reed-Solomon codes, have been acknowledged as an efficient alternative to plain replication to reduce the storage overhead in reliable distributed storage systems. Yet, such codes experience high overhead…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-06-20 Anne-Marie Kermarrec , Erwan Le Merrer , Gilles Straub , Alexandre van Kempen

Regenerating codes are a class of distributed storage codes that optimally trade the bandwidth needed for repair of a failed node with the amount of data stored per node of the network. Minimum Storage Regenerating (MSR) codes minimize…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-07-27 K. V. Rashmi , Nihar B. Shah , P. Vijay Kumar

In large-scale distributed storage systems (DSS), reliability is provided by redundancy spread over storage servers across the Internet. Network coding (NC) has been widely studied in DSS because it can improve the reliability with low…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-11-17 Chengjin Jia , Jin Wang , Yanqin Zhu , Xin Wang , Kejie Lu , Xiumin Wang , Zhengqing Wen

Failure detection is a fundamental building block for ensuring fault tolerance in large scale distributed systems. There are lots of approaches and implementations in failure detectors. Providing flexible failure detection in off-the-shelf…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2009-10-06 Ciprian Mihai Dobre , Florin Pop , Alexandru Costan , Mugurel Ionut Andreica , Valentin Cristea

Storage codes are used to ensure reliable storage of data in distributed systems. Here we consider functional repair codes, where individual storage nodes that fail may be repaired efficiently and the ability to recover original data and to…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Siaw-Lynn Ng , Maura B. Paterson

Maximum-distance separable (MDS) array codes with high rate and an optimal repair property were introduced recently. These codes could be applied in distributed storage systems, where they minimize the communication and disk access required…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-19 Eyal En Gad , Robert Mateescu , Filip Blagojevic , Cyril Guyot , Zvonimir Bandic

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

Maximum distance separable (MDS) codes have the optimal trade-off between storage efficiency and fault tolerance, which are widely used in distributed storage systems. As typical non-MDS codes, simple regenerating codes (SRCs) can achieve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Zhengyi Jiang , Hao Shi , Zhongyi Huang , Bo Bai , Gong Zhang , Hanxu Hou

This paper presents a flexible irregular model for heterogeneous cloud storage systems and investigates how the cost of repairing failed nodes can be minimized. The fractional repetition code, originally designed for minimizing repair…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Quan Yu , Chi Wan Sung , Terence H. Chan

Regenerating code is a class of code very suitable for distributed storage systems, which can maintain optimal bandwidth and storage space. Two types of important regenerating code have been constructed: the minimum storage regeneration…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-10 Jian Li , Tongtong Li , Jian Ren

We consider regenerating codes in distributed storage systems where connections between the nodes are constrained by a graph. In this problem, the failed node downloads the information stored at a subset of vertices of the graph for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Adway Patra , Alexander Barg

We propose locally rewritable codes (LWC) for resistive memories inspired by locally repairable codes (LRC) for distributed storage systems. Small values of repair locality of LRC enable fast repair of a single failed node since the lost…

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

Coded computing has emerged as a promising framework for tackling significant challenges in large-scale distributed computing, including the presence of slow, faulty, or compromised servers. In this approach, each worker node processes a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Parsa Moradi , Behrooz Tahmasebi , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali

The problem of multilevel diversity coding with secure regeneration is revisited. Under the assumption that the eavesdropper can access the repair data for all compromised storage nodes, Shao el al. provided a precise characterization of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-15 Shuo Shao , Tie Liu , Chao Tian , Cong Shen

This work examines strategies to handle large shared data objects in distributed storage systems (DSS), while boosting the number of concurrent accesses, maintaining strong consistency guarantees, and ensuring good operation performance. To…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Antonio Fernandez Anta , Chryssis Georgiou , Theophanis Hadjistasi , Nicolas Nicolaou , Efstathios Stavrakis , Andria Trigeorgi

We consider the problem of designing codes for distributed storage that protect user data against eavesdroppers that can gain access to network links as well as individual nodes. Our goal is to achieve weak security (also known as block…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Swanand Kadhe , Alex Sprintson

Distributed storage systems suffer from significant repair traffic generated due to frequent storage node failures. This paper shows that properly designed low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes can substantially reduce the amount of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Hyegyeong Park , Dongwon Lee , Jaekyun Moon

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

This short note revisits the problem of designing secure minimum storage regenerating (MSR) codes for distributed storage systems. A secure MSR code ensures that a distributed storage system does not reveal the stored information to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-08 Ankit Singh Rawat