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We present a new 'piggybacking' framework for designing distributed storage codes that are efficient in data-read and download required during node-repair. We illustrate the power of this framework by constructing classes of explicit codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-26 K. V. Rashmi , Nihar B. Shah , Kannan Ramchandran

Distributed storage codes have important applications in the design of modern storage systems. In a distributed storage system, every storage node has a probability to fail and once an individual storage node fails, it must be reconstructed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-27 Chong Shangguan , Gennian Ge

Determinant codes are a class of exact-repair regenerating codes for distributed storage systems with parameters (n, k = d, d). These codes cover the entire trade-off between per-node storage and repair-bandwidth. In an earlier work of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Mehran Elyasi , Soheil Mohajer

The rack-aware storage model improves repair efficiency by exploiting locality within racks to minimize cross-rack traffic in a distributed storage system. While the partially cooperative repair model presents a solution for multiple node…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Hengming Zhao , Dianhua Wu , Minquan Cheng

In this paper we study the problem of increasing the decoding success probability of random linear fountain code over GF(2) for small packet lengths used in delay-intolerant applications such as multimedia streaming. Such code over GF(2)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-02-09 Jalaluddin Qureshi

A distributed storage system (DSS) needs to be efficiently accessible and repairable. Recently, considerable effort has been made towards the latter, while the former is usually not considered, since a trivial solution exists in the form of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Lukas Holzbaur , Stanislav Kruglik , Alexey Frolov , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

Maximum distance separable (MDS) codes have the optimal trade-off between storage efficiency and fault tolerance, which are widely used in distributed storage systems. As typical non-MDS codes, simple regenerating codes (SRCs) can achieve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Zhengyi Jiang , Hao Shi , Zhongyi Huang , Bo Bai , Gong Zhang , Hanxu Hou

Codes for storage systems aim to minimize the repair locality, which is the number of disks (or nodes) that participate in the repair of a single failed disk. Simultaneously, the code must sustain a high rate, operate on a small finite…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-29 Sreechakra Goparaju , Robert Calderbank

Regenerating codes allow distributed storage systems to recover from the loss of a storage node while transmitting the minimum possible amount of data across the network. We present a systematic computer search for optimal systematic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-10-14 Daniel Cullina , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Tracey Ho

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

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

We consider regenerating codes in distributed storage systems where connections between the nodes are constrained by a graph. In this problem, the failed node downloads the information stored at a subset of vertices of the graph for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Adway Patra , Alexander Barg

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

High availability of containerized applications requires to perform robust storage of applications' state. Since basic replication techniques are extremely costly at scale, storage space requirements can be reduced by means of erasure or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-09 Francesco De Pellegrini , Rachid El Azouzi , Alonso Silva , and Olfa Hassani

In this paper, a transmission strategy of fountain codes over cooperative relay networks is proposed. When more than one relay nodes are available, we apply network coding to fountain-coded packets. By doing this, partial information is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 E. Kurniawan , S. Sun , K. Yen , K. F. E. Chong

Distributed storage systems support failures of individual devices by the use of replication or erasure correcting codes. While erasure correcting codes offer a better storage efficiency than replication for similar fault tolerance, they…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-12-10 Nicolas Le Scouarnec

In a distributed storage network, reliability and bandwidth optimization can be provided by regenerating codes. Recently table based regenerating codes viz. DRESS (Distributed Replication-based Exact Simple Storage) codes has been proposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-18 Manish K Gupta , Anupam Agrawal , Deepak Yadav

In distributed storage systems that employ erasure coding, the issue of minimizing the total {\it repair bandwidth} required to exactly regenerate a storage node after a failure arises. This repair bandwidth depends on the structure of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-06-10 Dimitris S. Papailiopoulos , Alexandros G. Dimakis

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

Regenerating codes (RCs) can significantly reduce the repair-bandwidth of distributed storage networks. Initially, the analysis of RCs was based on the assumption that during the repair process, the newcomer does not distinguish (among all…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Imad Ahmad , Chih-Chun Wang