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Self-dual maximum distance separable (MDS) codes over finite fields are linear codes with significant combinatorial and cryptographic applications. Twisted generalized Reed-Solomon (TGRS) codes can be both MDS and self-dual. In this paper,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Chun'e Zhao , Yuxin Han , Wenping Ma , Tongjiang Yan , Yuhua Sun

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

In distributed storage, erasure codes -- like Reed-Solomon Codes -- are often employed to provide reliability. In this setting, it is desirable to be able to repair one or more failed nodes while minimizing the repair bandwidth. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-20 Jay Mardia , Burak Bartan , Mary Wootters

Recent advances in erasure coding for distributed storage systems have demonstrated that adapting redundancy to varying disk failure rates can lead to substantial storage savings. Such adaptation requires code conversion, wherein data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Shubhransh Singhvi , Saransh Chopra , K. V. Rashmi

Recent advancements in fields such as automotive and aerospace have driven a growing demand for robust computational resources. Applications that were once designed for basic MCUs are now deployed on highly heterogeneous SoC platforms.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Afonso Oliveira , Diogo Costa , Gonçalo Moreira , José Martins , Sandro Pinto

In this paper, we propose two new constructions of exact-repair minimum storage regenerating (exact-MBR) codes. Both constructions obtain the encoded symbols by first treating the message vector over GF(q) as a linearized polynomial and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-22 Hongmei Xie , Zhiyuan Yan

Fractional repetition (FR) codes is a family of codes for distributed storage systems that allow for uncoded exact repairs having the minimum repair bandwidth. However, in contrast to minimum bandwidth regenerating (MBR) codes, where a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-22 Natalia Silberstein , Tuvi Etzion

The explosion in the volumes of data being stored online has resulted in distributed storage systems transitioning to erasure coding based schemes. Local Reconstruction Codes (LRCs) have emerged as the codes of choice for these…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Sivakanth Gopi , Venkatesan Guruswami , Sergey Yekhanin

In distributed storage systems, both the repair bandwidth and locality are important repair cost metrics to evaluate the performance of a storage code. Recently, Guruswami and Wooters proposed an optimal linear repair scheme based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Tingting Chen , Xiande Zhang

An $(n,k,d)$ cooperative regenerating code provides the optimal-bandwidth repair for any $t~(t\!>\!1)$ node failures in a cooperative way. In particular, an MSCR (minimum storage cooperative regenerating) code retains the same storage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Yaqian Zhang , Zhifang Zhang

When there are multiple node failures in a distributed storage system, regenerating the failed storage nodes individually in a one-by-one manner is suboptimal as far as repair-bandwidth minimization is concerned. If data exchange among the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Kenneth W. Shum

Folded Reed-Solomon codes, introduced by Guruswami and Rudra in 2007, have been shown to achieve the information-theoretically best possible trade-off between the rate of a code and the error-correction radius. In 2024, Bergamaschi,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Gretchen L. Matthews , Julia Shapiro

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

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

The past decade has seen notable advances in our understanding of structured error-correcting codes, particularly binary Reed--Muller (RM) codes. While initial breakthroughs were for erasure channels based on symmetry, extending these…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Henry D. Pfister , Galen Reeves

We propose distributed solutions to the problem of Robust Subspace Recovery (RSR). Our setting assumes a huge dataset in an ad hoc network without a central processor, where each node has access only to one chunk of the dataset.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-07 Vahan Huroyan , Gilad Lerman

Generalized Reed-Solomon (RS) codes are a common choice for efficient, reliable error correction in memory and communications systems. These codes add $2t$ extra parity symbols to a block of memory, and can efficiently and reliably correct…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Mike Hamburg , Eric Linstadt , Danny Moore , Thomas Vogelsang

This paper addresses the problem of constructing MDS codes that enable exact repair of each code block with small repair bandwidth, which refers to the total amount of information flow from the remaining code blocks during the repair…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Ankit Singh Rawat , Itzhak Tamo , Venkatesan Guruswami , Klim Efremenko

Erasure codes are an integral part of many distributed storage systems aimed at Big Data, since they provide high fault-tolerance for low overheads. However, traditional erasure codes are inefficient on reading stored data in degraded…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-06-27 Kyumars Sheykh Esmaili , Lluis Pamies-Juarez , Anwitaman Datta

Several works have developed vector-linear maximum-distance separable (MDS) storage codes that min- imize the total communication cost required to repair a single coded symbol after an erasure, referred to as repair bandwidth (BW). Vector…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Karthikeyan Shanmugam , Dimitris S. Papailiopoulos , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Giuseppe Caire