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In a distributed storage system, code symbols are dispersed across space in nodes or storage units as opposed to time. In settings such as that of a large data center, an important consideration is the efficient repair of a failed node.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-13 S. B. Balaji , M. Nikhil Krishnan , Myna Vajha , Vinayak Ramkumar , Birenjith Sasidharan , P. Vijay Kumar

To achieve reliability in distributed storage systems, data has usually been replicated across different nodes. However the increasing volume of data to be stored has motivated the introduction of erasure codes, a storage efficient…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-08-06 Lluis Pamies-Juarez , Anwitaman Datta , Frederique Oggier

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 systems often introduce redundancy to increase reliability. When coding is used, the repair problem arises: if a node storing encoded information fails, in order to maintain the same level of reliability we need to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-04-27 Alexandros G. Dimakis , Kannan Ramchandran , Yunnan Wu , Changho Suh

Erasure coding is widely used for massive storage in data centers to achieve high fault tolerance and low storage redundancy. Since the cross-rack communication cost is often high, it is critical to design erasure codes that minimize the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Hanxu Hou , Patrick P. C. Lee , Kenneth W. Shum , Yuchong Hu

Large-scale distributed storage systems typically use erasure codes to provide durability of data in the face of failures. A set of $k$ blocks to be stored is encoded using an $[n, k]$ code to generate $n$ blocks that are then stored on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Francisco Maturana , K. V. Rashmi

Edge Storage Systems have emerged as a critical enabler of low latency data access in modern cloud networks by bringing storage and computation closer to end users. However, the limited storage capacity of edge servers poses significant…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Shubhradeep Roy , Suvarthi Sarkar , Vivek Verma , Aryabartta Sahu

Cloud computing facilitates the access of applications and data from any location by a distributed storage system. Erasure codes offer better data replication technique with reduced storage costs for more reliability. This paper considers…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Srujan Teja Thomdapu , Ketan Rajawat

Erasure codes have emerged as an efficient technology for providing data redundancy in distributed storage systems. However, it is a challenging task to repair the failed storage nodes in erasure-coded storage systems, which requires large…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Bing Zhu , Kenneth W. Shum , Hui Li

Practical storage systems often adopt erasure codes to tolerate device failures and sector failures, both of which are prevalent in the field. However, traditional erasure codes employ device-level redundancy to protect against sector…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-24 Mingqiang Li , Patrick P. C. Lee

In applications of distributed storage systems to modern key-value stores, the stored data is highly dynamic due to frequent updates. The multi-version coding problem was formulated to study the cost of storing dynamic data in distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Ramy E. Ali , Viveck Cadambe , Jaime Llorca , Antonia Tulino

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enhances large language models (LLMs) by integrating external knowledge retrieval but faces challenges on edge devices due to high storage, energy, and latency demands. Computing-in-Memory (CIM) offers a…

Modern distributed storage systems often use erasure codes to protect against disk and node failures to increase reliability, while trying to meet the latency requirements of the applications and clients. Storage systems may have caches at…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-07-24 Vaneet Aggarwal , Yih-Farn R. Chen , Tian Lan , Yu Xiang

The paper is devoted to the problem of erasure coding in distributed storage. We consider a model of storage that assumes that nodes are organized into equally sized groups, called racks, that within each group the nodes can communicate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Zitan Chen , Alexander Barg

Due to individual unreliable commodity components, failures are common in large-scale distributed storage systems. Erasure codes are widely deployed in practical storage systems to provide fault tolerance with low storage overhead. However,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Liangliang Xu , Min Lyu , Zhipeng Li , Yongkun Li , Yinlong Xu

The increasing demand for data storage has prompted the exploration of new techniques, with molecular data storage being a promising alternative. In this work, we develop coding schemes for a new storage paradigm that can be represented as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Boaz Moav , Ryan Gabrys , Eitan Yaakobi

Modern distributed storage systems offer large capacity to satisfy the exponentially increasing need of storage space. They often use erasure codes to protect against disk and node failures to increase reliability, while trying to meet the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Yu Xiang , Tian Lan , Vaneet Aggarwal , Yih-Farn R Chen

We explore the feasibility of implementing a reliable, high performance, distributed storage system on a commodity computing cluster. Files are distributed across storage nodes using erasure coding with small Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Benjamin Gaidioz , Birger Koblitz , Nuno Santos

Erasure coding techniques are used to increase the reliability of distributed storage systems while minimizing storage overhead. Also of interest is minimization of the bandwidth required to repair the system following a node failure. In a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-10-06 K. V. Rashmi , Nihar B. Shah , P. Vijay Kumar , Kannan Ramchandran

This paper investigates the use of redundancy and self repairing against node failures in distributed storage systems, using various strategies. In replication method, access to one replication node is sufficient to reconstruct a lost node,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-10-03 Abbas Kiani , Soroush Akhlaghi