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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

Locally repairable codes (LRCs) have gained significant interest for the design of large distributed storage systems as they allow a small number of erased nodes to be recovered by accessing only a few others. Several works have thus been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Matthias Grezet , Ragnar Freij-Hollanti , Thomas Westerbäck , Camilla Hollanti

Locally recoverable codes (LRCs) were proposed for the recovery of data in distributed and cloud storage systems about nine years ago. A lot of progress on the study of LRCs has been made by now. However, there is a lack of general theory…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Pan Tan , Cuiling Fan , Cunsheng Ding , Zhengchun Zhou

Locally repairable codes are widely applicable in contemporary large-scale distributed cloud storage systems and various other areas. By making use of some algebraic structures of elliptic curves, Li et al. developed a series of $q$-ary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Junjie Huang , Chang-An Zhao

We develop a duality theory of locally recoverable codes (LRCs) and apply it to establish a series of new bounds on their parameters. We introduce and study a refined notion of weight distribution that captures the code's locality. Using a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Anina Gruica , Benjamin Jany , Alberto Ravagnani

In this paper, we consider the convertible code with locally repairable property. We present an improved lower bound on access cost associated with $(r,\delta)$. Then, we provide a general construction of convertible codes with optimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Songping Ge , Han Cai , Xiaohu Tang

The locally repairable code (LRC) studied in this paper is an $[n,k]$ linear code of which the value at each coordinate can be recovered by a linear combination of at most $r$ other coordinates. The central problem in this work is to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-09-04 Anyu Wang , Zhifang Zhang

Locally repairable codes (LRCs) have attracted a lot of attention due to their applications in distributed storage systems. In this paper, we provide new constructions of optimal $(2, \delta)$-LRCs over $\mathbb{F}_q$ with flexible…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Yuan Gao , Weijun Fang , Jingke Xu , Dong Wang , Sihuang Hu

Locally recoverable (LRC) codes and their variants have been extensively studied in recent years. In this paper we focus on cyclic constructions of LRC codes and derive conditions on the zeros of the code that support the property of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Zitan Chen , Alexander Barg

A locally recoverable (LRC) code is a code over a finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$ such that any erased coordinate of a codeword can be recovered from a small number of other coordinates in that codeword. We construct LRC codes correcting more…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Carlos Galindo , Fernando Hernando , Carlos Munuera

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

A linear block code with dimension $k$, length $n$, and minimum distance $d$ is called a locally repairable code (LRC) with locality $r$ if it can retrieve any coded symbol by at most $r$ other coded symbols. LRCs have been recently…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-25 Mostafa Shahabinejad , Majid Khabbazian , Masoud Ardakani

Locally repairable codes are desirable for distributed storage systems to improve the repair efficiency. In this paper, we first build a bridge between locally repairable code and packing. As an application of this bridge, some optimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-07 Han Cai , Minquan Cheng , Cuiling Fan , Xiaohu Tang

Locally recoverable (LRC) codes provide a solution to single node failure in distributed storage systems, where it is a very common problem. On the other hand, linear complementary dual (LCD) codes are useful in fault injections attacks on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Charul Rajput , Maheshanand Bhaintwal , Ramakrishna Bandi

A $q$-ary $(n,k,r)$ locally repairable code (LRC) is an $[n,k,d]$ linear code over $\mathbb{F}_q$ such that every code symbol can be recovered by accessing at most $r$ other code symbols. The well-known Singleton-like bound says that $d \le…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Jie Hao , Shu-Tao Xia , Kenneth W. Shum , Bin Chen , Fang-Wei Fu , Yi-Xian Yang

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

Cyclic codes are an interesting type of linear codes and have wide applications in communication and storage systems due to their efficient encoding and decoding algorithms. Inspired by the recent work on binary cyclic codes published in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Hai Liu , Chengju Li , Cunsheng Ding

In this paper we give constructions for infinite sequences of finite non-linear locally recoverable codes $\mathcal C\subseteq \prod\limits^N_{i=1}\mathbb F_{q_i}$ over a product of finite fields arising from basis expansions in algebraic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Andrea Ferraguti , Dorian Goldfeld , Giacomo Micheli

The construction of self-dual codes over small fields such that their minimum distances are as large as possible is a long-standing challenging problem in the coding theory. In 2009, a family of binary self-dual cyclic codes with lengths…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Hao Chen

Distributed storage systems for large-scale applications typically use replication for reliability. Recently, erasure codes were used to reduce the large storage overhead, while increasing data reliability. A main limitation of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-06 Dimitris S. Papailiopoulos , Alexandros G. Dimakis