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In this paper, we consider the convertible codes with the maximum distance separable (MDS) property, which can adjust the code rate according to the failure rates of devices. We first extend the notion of convertible codes to allow initial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Songping Ge , Han Cai , Xiaohu Tang

This work deals with partial MDS (PMDS) codes, a special class of locally repairable codes, used for distributed storage system. We first show that a known construction of these codes, using Gabidulin codes, can be extended to use any…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-19 Alessandro Neri , Anna-Lena Horlemann-Trautmann

Minimum storage regenerating (MSR) codes are MDS codes which allow for recovery of any single erased symbol with optimal repair bandwidth, based on the smallest possible fraction of the contents downloaded from each of the other symbols.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Venkatesan Guruswami , Haotian Jiang

We study the performance of Reed-Solomon (RS) codes for the \em exact repair problem \em in distributed storage. Our main result is that, in some parameter regimes, Reed-Solomon codes are optimal regenerating codes, among MDS codes with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-10 Venkatesan Guruswami , Mary Wootters

In large-scale distributed storage systems, erasure coding is employed to ensure reliability against disk failures. Recent work by Kadekodi et al. demonstrates that adapting code parameters to varying disk failure rates can lead to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Vinayak Ramkumar , Xiangliang Kong , G. Yeswanth Sai , Myna Vajha , M. Nikhil Krishnan

An $(n, M)$ vector code $\mathcal{C} \subseteq \mathbb{F}^n$ is a collection of $M$ codewords where $n$ elements (from the field $\mathbb{F}$) in each of the codewords are referred to as code blocks. Assuming that $\mathbb{F} \cong…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-02 Venkatesan Guruswami , Ankit Singh Rawat

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

Clustered distributed storage models real data centers where intra- and cross-cluster repair bandwidths are different. In this paper, exact-repair minimum-storage-regenerating (MSR) codes achieving capacity of clustered distributed storage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Jy-yong Sohn , Beongjun Choi , Jaekyun Moon

Regenerating codes are a class of recently developed codes for distributed storage that, like Reed-Solomon codes, permit data recovery from any subset of k nodes within the n-node network. However, regenerating codes possess in addition,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Nihar B. Shah , K. V. Rashmi , P. Vijay Kumar , Kannan Ramchandran

Heterogeneous Distributed Storage Systems (DSSs) are close to the real world applications for data storage. Each node of the considered DSS, may store different number of packets and each having different repair bandwidth with uniform…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-22 Krishna Gopal Benerjee , Manish K. Gupta

We consider the setting of data storage across n nodes in a distributed manner. A data collector (DC) should be able to reconstruct the entire data by connecting to any k out of the n nodes and downloading all the data stored in them. When…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-09-05 Nihar B. Shah , K. V. Rashmi , P. Vijay Kumar , Kannan Ramchandran

$\epsilon$-Minimum Storage Regenerating ($\epsilon$-MSR) codes form a special class of Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) codes, providing mechanisms for exact regeneration of a single code block in their codewords by downloading slighly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Venkatesan Guruswami , Satyanarayana V. Lokam , Sai Vikneshwar Mani Jayaraman

Data storage in Distributed Storage Systems (DSSs) is a multidimensional optimization problem. Using network coding, one wants to provide reliability, scalability, security, reduced storage overhead, reduced bandwidth for repair and minimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-13 Shreyansh A. Prajapati , Manish K. Gupta

The $(n,k,d)$ regenerating code is a class of $(n,k)$ erasure codes with the capability to recover a lost code fragment from other $d$ existing code fragments. This paper concentrates on the design of exact regenerating codes at Minimum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-17 Sian-Jheng Lin , Wei-Ho Chung

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

In this paper, a new repair scheme for a modified construction of MDS codes is studied. The obtained repair scheme has optimal bandwidth for multiple failed nodes under the cooperative repair model. In addition, the repair scheme has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Xing Lin , Han Cai , Xiaohu Tang

In this paper, we study distributed storage problems over unidirectional ring networks, whose storage nodes form a directed ring and data is transmitted along the same direction. The original data is distributed to store on these nodes.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-15 Jiyong Lu , Xuan Guang , Fang-Wei Fu

For an $(n,k,\ell)$ MDS array code over $\mathbb{F}_q$, how small can the repair bandwidth and repair I/O be under linear exact repair? We study this question in the regime where the field size $q$, the redundancy $r=n-k$, and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Hai Liu , Huawei Wu

We study the exact and optimal repair of multiple failures in codes for distributed storage. More particularly, we provide an explicit construction of exact minimum bandwidth coordinated regenerating codes (MBCR) for n=d+t,k,d >= k,t >= 1.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-05 Steve Jiekak , Nicolas Le Scouarnec

Cooperative regenerating codes are designed for repairing multiple node failures in distributed storage systems. In contrast to the original repair model of regenerating codes, which are for the repair of single node failure, data exchange…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-29 Kenneth W. Shum , Junyu Chen