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Regenerating codes are a class of distributed storage codes that optimally trade the bandwidth needed for repair of a failed node with the amount of data stored per node of the network. Minimum Storage Regenerating (MSR) codes minimize…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-07-27 K. V. Rashmi , Nihar B. Shah , P. Vijay Kumar

This paper describes a non-homogeneous distributed storage systems (DSS), where there is one super node which has a larger storage size and higher reliability and availability than the other storage nodes. We propose three distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-13 Vo Tam Van , Chau Yuen , Jing Li

It is well known that an (n,k) code can be used to store 'k' units of information in 'n' unit-capacity disks of a distributed data storage system. If the code used is maximum distance separable (MDS), then the system can tolerate any (n-k)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-06-08 Viveck R. Cadambe , Cheng Huang , Syed A. Jafar , Jin Li

Distributed storage systems provide reliable access to data through redundancy spread over individually unreliable nodes. Application scenarios include data centers, peer-to-peer storage systems, and storage in wireless networks. Storing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2008-03-06 Alexandros G. Dimakis , P. Brighten Godfrey , Yunnan Wu , Martin J. Wainwright , Kannan Ramchandran

We revisit zigzag array codes, a family of MDS codes known for achieving optimal access and optimal rebuilding ratio in single-node repair. In this work, we endow zigzag codes with two new properties: small field size and low skip cost.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Wenqin Zhang , Han Mao Kiah , Son Hoang Dau

This short note revisits the problem of designing secure minimum storage regenerating (MSR) codes for distributed storage systems. A secure MSR code ensures that a distributed storage system does not reveal the stored information to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-08 Ankit Singh Rawat

The high repair cost of (n,k) Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) erasure codes has recently motivated a new class of codes, called Regenerating Codes, that optimally trade off storage cost for repair bandwidth. In this paper, we address…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-04-28 Changho Suh , Kannan Ramchandran

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

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

We consider the design of regenerating codes for distributed storage systems at the minimum bandwidth regeneration (MBR) point. The codes allow for a repair process that is exact and uncoded, but table-based. These codes were introduced in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-19 Oktay Olmez , Aditya Ramamoorthy

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

There are multiple performance metrics in the design of coding schemes for distributed storage systems. The first metric is called repair bandwidth, which measures the network resources required during the repair process. Another critical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Minhan Gao , Kenneth Shum

Minimum storage regenerating (MSR) codes are a class of maximum distance separable (MDS) array codes capable of repairing any single failed node by downloading the minimum amount of information from each of the helper nodes. However, MSR…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Vinayak Ramkumar , Netanel Raviv , Itzhak Tamo

Peer-to-peer distributed storage systems provide reliable access to data through redundancy spread over nodes across the Internet. A key goal is to minimize the amount of bandwidth used to maintain that redundancy. Storing a file using an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Alexandros G. Dimakis , P. Brighten Godfrey , Martin J. Wainwright , Kannan Ramchandran

Modern distributed storage systems apply redundancy coding techniques to stored data. One form of redundancy is based on regenerating codes, which can minimize the repair bandwidth, i.e., the amount of data transferred when repairing a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-23 Yuchong Hu , Patrick P. C. Lee , Kenneth W. Shum

In this paper, we study distributed storage problems over unidirectional ring networks. A lower bound on the reconstructing bandwidth to recover total original data for each user is proposed, and it is achievable for arbitrary parameters.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-22 Jiyong Lu , Xuan Guang , Fang-Wei Fu

Maximum distance separable (MDS) codes facilitate the achievement of elevated levels of fault tolerance in storage systems while incurring minimal redundancy overhead. Reed-Solomon (RS) codes are typical MDS codes with the sub-packetization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Hao Shi , Zhengyi Jiang , Zhongyi Huang , Bo Bai , Gong Zhang , Hanxu Hou

Distributed storage systems are mainly justified due to the limited amount of storage capacity and improving the reliability through distributing data over multiple storage nodes. On the other hand, it may happen the data is stored in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-04-15 Soroush Akhlaghi , Abbas Kiani , Mohammad Reza Ghanavati

In a distributed storage system, recovering from multiple failures is a critical and frequent task that is crucial for maintaining the system's reliability and fault-tolerance. In this work, we focus on the problem of repairing multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Marwen Zorgui , Zhiying Wang

Maximum distance separable (MDS) codes are optimal error-correcting codes in the sense that they provide the maximum failure-tolerance for a given number of parity nodes. Suppose that an MDS code with $k$ information nodes and $r=n-k$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-11 Min Ye , Alexander Barg