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We consider linear cyclic codes with the locality property, or locally recoverable codes (LRC codes). A family of LRC codes that generalizes the classical construction of Reed-Solomon codes was constructed in a recent paper by I. Tamo and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-06 Itzhak Tamo , Alexander Barg , Sreechakra Goparaju , Robert Calderbank

A code over a finite alphabet is called locally recoverable (LRC) if every symbol in the encoding is a function of a small number (at most $r$) other symbols. We present a family of LRC codes that attain the maximum possible value of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-14 Itzhak Tamo , Alexander Barg

An $(n,r,h,a,q)$-Local Reconstruction Code (LRC) is a linear code over $\mathbb{F}_q$ of length $n$, whose codeword symbols are partitioned into $n/r$ local groups each of size $r$. Each local group satisfies `$a$' local parity checks to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Sivakanth Gopi , Venkatesan Guruswami

Recent studies have delved into the construction of locally repairable codes (LRCs) with optimal minimum distance from function fields. In this paper, we present several novel constructions by extending the findings of optimally designed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Yunlong Zhu , Chang-An Zhao

Locally repairable codes (LRCs) play a crucial role in mitigating data loss in large-scale distributed and cloud storage systems. This paper establishes a unified decomposition theorem for general optimal $(r,\delta)$-LRCs. Based on this,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Kun Zhou , Meng Cao

We introduce a family of balanced locally repairable codes (BLRCs) $[n, k, d]$ for arbitrary values of $n$, $k$ and $d$. Similar to other locally repairable codes (LRCs), the presented codes are suitable for applications that require a low…

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

Locally repairable codes enables fast repair of node failure in a distributed storage system. The code symbols in a codeword are stored in different storage nodes, such that a disk failure can be recovered by accessing a small fraction of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Kenneth W. Shum , Jie Hao

Distributed and cloud storage systems are used to reliably store large-scale data. Erasure codes have been recently proposed and used in real-world distributed and cloud storage systems such as Google File System, Microsoft Azure Storage,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Mehrtash Mehrabi , Massoud Ardakani

We prove that a class of distance-optimal local reconstruction codes (LRCs), an important family of repair-efficient codes for distributed storage systems, achieve the maximum distance separable private information retrieval capacity for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Siddhartha Kumar , Hsuan-Yin Lin , Eirik Rosnes , Alexandre Graell i Amat

Recently, locally repairable codes has gained significant interest for their potential applications in distributed storage systems. However, most constructions in existence are over fields with size that grows with the number of servers,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Matthias Grezet , Ragnar Freij-Hollanti , Thomas Westerbäck , Oktay Olmez , Camilla Hollanti

In distributed storage systems, locally repairable codes (LRCs) are introduced to realize low disk I/O and repair cost. In order to tolerate multiple node failures, the LRCs with \emph{$(r, \delta)$-locality} are further proposed. Since hot…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-03 Bin Chen , Shu-Tao Xia , Jie Hao

Locally repairable codes (LRCs) have received significant recent attention as a method of designing data storage systems robust to server failure. Optimal LRCs offer the ideal trade-off between minimum distance and locality, a measure of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Allison Beemer , Ryan Coatney , Venkatesan Guruswami , Hiram H. López , Fernando Piñero

We consider linear cyclic codes with the locality property, or locally recoverable codes (LRC codes). A family of LRC codes that generalize the classical construction of Reed-Solomon codes was constructed in a recent paper by I. Tamo and A.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-10 Itzhak Tamo , Alexander Barg , Sreechakra Goparaju , Robert Calderbank

Classical locally recoverable codes (LRCs) have become indispensable in distributed storage systems. They provide efficient recovery in terms of localized errors. Quantum LRCs have very recently been introduced for their potential…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Gaojun Luo , Bocong Chen , Martianus Frederic Ezerman , San Ling

In this paper, we propose locally repairable codes (LRCs) with optimal minimum distance for distributed storage systems (DSS). A two-layer encoding structure is employed to ensure data reconstruction and the designated repair locality. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-15 Hongmei Xie , Zhiyuan Yan

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

Locally recoverable codes (LRCs) have emerged as fundamental objects in modern coding theory, primarily due to their pivotal role in distributed and cloud storage systems. A major breakthrough in their construction was achieved by Tamo and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Hengfeng Liu , Sihem Mesnager , Chunming Tang , Xuemin Zheng

A code over a finite field is called locally recoverable code (LRC) if every coordinate symbol can be determined by a small number (at most r, this parameter is called locality) of other coordinate symbols. For a linear code with length n,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Hao Chen , Jian Weng , Weiqi Luo

Linear erasure codes with local repairability are desirable for distributed data storage systems. An [n, k, d] code having all-symbol (r, \delta})-locality, denoted as (r, {\delta})a, is considered optimal if it also meets the minimum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-09 Wentu Song , Son Hoang Dau , Chau Yuen , Tiffany Jing Li

In this work, we introduce maximally recoverable codes with locality and availability. We consider locally repairable codes (LRCs) where certain subsets of $ t $ symbols belong each to $ N $ local repair sets, which are pairwise disjoint…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Umberto Martínez-Peñas , V. Lalitha