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As a special class of array codes, $(n,k,m)$ piggybacking codes are MDS codes (i.e., any $k$ out of $n$ nodes can retrieve all data symbols) that can achieve low repair bandwidth for single-node failure with low sub-packetization $m$. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Hao Shi , Zhengyi Jiang , Zhongyi Huang , Bo Bai , Hanxu Hou

Cooperative MSR codes are a kind of storage codes which enable optimal-bandwidth repair of any $h\geq2$ node erasures in a cooperative way, while retaining the minimum storage as an $[n,k]$ MDS code. Each code coordinate (node) is assumed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Yaqian Zhang , Jingke Xu

In large data centers, storage nodes are organized in racks, and the cross-rack transmission dominates the bandwidth cost. For the repair of single node failures, codes achieving the tradeoff between the storage redundancy and cross-rack…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Liyang Zhou , Zhifang Zhang

In a modern distributed storage system, storage nodes are organized in racks, and the cross-rack communication dominates the system bandwidth. In We study the rack-aware storage system where all storage nodes are organized in racks and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Liyang Zhou , Zhifang Zhang

Distributed storage codes have important applications in the design of modern storage systems. In a distributed storage system, every storage node has a probability to fail and once an individual storage node fails, it must be reconstructed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-27 Chong Shangguan , Gennian Ge

Centralized repair refers to repairing $h\geq 2$ node failures using $d$ helper nodes in a centralized way, where the repair bandwidth is counted by the total amount of data downloaded from the helper nodes. A centralized MSR code is an MDS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Yaqian Zhang

We establish lower bounds on the sub-packetization of optimal-access MSR codes in the context of multiple-node failures. These bounds generalize the tight bounds for single-node failure presented by Balaji et al. (IEEE Transactions on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Lewen Wang , Zihao Zhang , Sihuang Hu

In wireless distributed storage systems, storage nodes are connected by wireless channels, which are broadcast in nature. This paper exploits this unique feature to design an efficient repair mechanism, called broadcast repair, for wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-10 Ping Hu , Chi Wan Sung , Terence H. Chan

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

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

In a distributed storage system, recovering from multiple failures is a critical and frequent task that is crucial for maintaining the system's reliability and fault-tolerance. In this work, we focus on the problem of repairing multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Marwen Zorgui , Zhiying Wang

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

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

We consider the rack-aware storage system where $n=\bar{n}u$ nodes are organized in $\bar{n}$ racks each containing $u$ nodes, and any $k=\bar{k}u+u_0~(0\leq u_0<u)$ nodes can retrieve the original data file. More importantly, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Liyang Zhou , Zhifang Zhang

The high repair cost of (n,k) Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) erasure codes has recently motivated a new class of codes, called Regenerating Codes, that optimally trade off storage cost for repair bandwidth. On one end of this spectrum of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-04-19 Changho Suh , Kannan Ramchandran

In distributed storage systems reliability is achieved through redundancy stored at different nodes in the network. Then a data collector can reconstruct source information even though some nodes fail. To maintain reliability, an autonomous…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-26 Majid Gerami , Ming Xiao , Mikael Skoglund , Kenneth W. Shum , Dengsheng Lin

This paper presents a construction for high-rate MDS codes that enable bandwidth-efficient repair of a single node. Such MDS codes are also referred to as the minimum storage regenerating (MSR) codes in the distributed storage literature.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-26 Ankit Singh Rawat , O. Ozan Koyluoglu , Sriram Vishwanath

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

High-rate minimum storage regenerating (MSR) codes are known to require a large sub-packetization level, which can make meta-data management difficult and hinder implementation in practical systems. A few maximum distance separable (MDS)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Jie Li , Yi Liu , Xiaohu Tang , Yunghsiang S. Han , Bo Bai , Gong Zhang

In coding for distributed storage systems, efficient data reconstruction and repair through accessing a predefined number of arbitrarily chosen storage nodes is guaranteed by regenerating codes. Traditionally, code parameters, specially the…

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