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Fractional repetition (FR) codes is a family of codes for distributed storage systems (DSS) that allow uncoded exact repairs with minimum repair bandwidth. In this work, we consider a bound on the maximum amount of data that can be stored…

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

Due to the use of commodity software and hardware, crash-stop and Byzantine failures are likely to be more prevalent in today's large-scale distributed storage systems. Regenerating codes have been shown to be a more efficient way to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-08-22 Yunghsiang S. Han , Rong Zheng , Wai Ho Mow

Erasure coding techniques are getting integrated in networked distributed storage systems as a way to provide fault-tolerance at the cost of less storage overhead than traditional replication. Redundancy is maintained over time through…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-06-12 Lluis Pamies-Juarez , Frédérique Oggier , Anwitaman Datta

Emerging applications in manufacturing, wireless communication, and molecular data storage require robust coding schemes that remain effective under physical distortions where codewords may be arbitrarily fragmented and partially missing.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Canran Wang , Minghui Liwang , Netanel Raviv

We study the data reliability problem for a community of devices forming a mobile cloud storage system. We consider the application of regenerating codes for file maintenance within a geographically-limited area. Such codes require lower…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Gokhan Calis , Swetha Shivaramaiah , O. Ozan Koyluoglu , Loukas Lazos

The explosion in the volumes of data being stored online has resulted in distributed storage systems transitioning to erasure coding based schemes. Yet, the codes being deployed in practice are fairly short. In this work, we address what we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-22 Parikshit Gopalan , Guangda Hu , Swastik Kopparty , Shubhangi Saraf , Carol Wang , Sergey Yekhanin

A passive adversary can eavesdrop stored content or downloaded content of some storage nodes, in order to learn illegally about the file stored across a distributed storage system (DSS). Previous work in the literature focuses on code…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-19 Son Hoang Dau , Wentu Song , Chau Yuen

Regenerating code is a class of code very suitable for distributed storage systems, which can maintain optimal bandwidth and storage space. Two types of important regenerating code have been constructed: the minimum storage regeneration…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-10 Jian Li , Tongtong Li , Jian Ren

This paper studies the design of codes for distributed storage systems (DSS) that enable local repair in the event of node failure. This paper presents locally repairable codes based on low degree multivariate polynomials. Its code…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-04-30 Ankit Singh Rawat , Sriram Vishwanath

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 an $(n,k,d)$ rack-aware storage model, the system consists of $n$ nodes uniformly distributed across $\bar{n}$ successive racks, such that each rack contains $u$ nodes of equal capacity and the reconstructive degree satisfies…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Hengming Zhao , Dianhua Wu , Minquan Cheng

Erasure codes are an efficient means of storing data across a network in comparison to data replication, as they tend to reduce the amount of data stored in the network and offer increased resilience in the presence of node failures. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 K. V. Rashmi , Nihar B. Shah , P. Vijay Kumar

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

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

In this paper distributed storage systems with exact repair are studied. A construction for regenerating codes between the minimum storage regenerating (MSR) and the minimum bandwidth regenerating (MBR) points is given. To the best of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-21 Toni Ernvall

In modern practical data centers, storage nodes are usually organized into equally sized groups, which is called racks. The cost of cross-rack communication is much more expensive compared with the intra-rack communication cost. The codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Lingfei Jin , Gaojun Luo , Chaoping Xing

Locally repairable codes (LRCs) were originally introduced to enable efficient recovery from erasures in distributed storage systems by accessing only a small number of other symbols. While their structural properties-such as bounds and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Hoang Ly , Emina Soljanin , Philip Whiting

Distributed storage systems suffer from significant repair traffic generated due to frequent storage node failures. This paper shows that properly designed low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes can substantially reduce the amount of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Hyegyeong Park , Dongwon Lee , Jaekyun Moon

Erasure correcting codes are widely used to ensure data persistence in distributed storage systems. This paper addresses the simultaneous repair of multiple failures in such codes. We go beyond existing work (i.e., regenerating codes by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-18 Anne-Marie Kermarrec , Gilles Straub , Nicolas Le Scouarnec

Fractional repetition (FR) codes are a class of regenerating codes for distributed storage systems with an exact (table-based) repair process that is also uncoded, i.e., upon failure, a node is regenerated by simply downloading packets from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-09 Oktay Olmez , Aditya Ramamoorthy

To recover simultaneous multiple failures in erasure coded storage systems, Patrick Lee et al introduce concurrent repair based minimal storage regenerating codes to reduce repair traffic. The architecture of this approach is simpler and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-25 Huayu Zhang , Hui Li , Hanxu Hou , K. W. Shum , ShuoYen Robert Li