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In this work, we introduce maximally recoverable codes with locality and availability. We consider locally repairable codes (LRCs) where certain subsets of $ t $ symbols belong each to $ N $ local repair sets, which are pairwise disjoint…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Umberto Martínez-Peñas , V. Lalitha

Symbol-pair code is a new coding framework which is proposed to correct errors in the symbol-pair read channel. In particular, maximum distance separable (MDS) symbol-pair codes are a kind of symbol-pair codes with the best possible…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-10 Shuxing Li , Gennian Ge

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

Fractional repetition (FR) codes are a class of repair efficient erasure codes that can recover a failed storage node with both optimal repair bandwidth and complexity. In this paper, we study the minimum distance of FR codes, which is the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Bing Zhu , Kenneth W. Shum , Weiping Wang , Jianxin Wang

In this letter, locally recoverable codes with maximal recoverability are studied with a focus on identifying the MDS codes resulting from puncturing and shortening. By using matroid theory and the relation between MDS codes and uniform…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Matthias Grezet , Thomas Westerbäck , Ragnar Freij-Hollanti , Camilla Hollanti

In large scale distributed storage systems (DSS) deployed in cloud computing, correlated failures resulting in simultaneous failure (or, unavailability) of blocks of nodes are common. In such scenarios, the stored data or a content of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-22 Gokhan Calis , O. Ozan Koyluoglu

Symbol-pair codes are proposed to combat pair-errors in symbol-pair read channels. The minimum symbol-pair distance is of significance in determining the error-correcting capability of a symbol-pair code. Maximum distance separable (MDS)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Junru Ma , Jinquan Luo

This paper presents a novel coding scheme for distributed storage systems containing nodes with adversarial errors. The key challenge in such systems is the propagation of erroneous data from a single corrupted node to the rest of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-17 Natalia Silberstein , Ankit Singh Rawat , Sriram Vishwanath

We give an explicit construction of exact cooperative regenerating codes at the MBCR (minimum bandwidth cooperative regeneration) point. Before the paper, the only known explicit MBCR code is given with parameters $n=d+r$ and $d=k$, while…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-05 Anyu Wang , Zhifang Zhang

Fractional repetition (FR) codes are a family of repair-efficient storage codes that provide exact and uncoded node repair at the minimum bandwidth regenerating point. The advantageous repair properties are achieved by a tailor-made…

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

Erasure codes play an important role in storage systems to prevent data loss. In this work, we study a class of erasure codes called Multi-Erasure Locally Recoverable Codes (ME-LRCs) for flash memory array. Compared to previous related…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Pengfei Huang , Eitan Yaakobi , Paul H. Siegel

Codes over rings, especially over Galois rings, have been extensively studied for nearly three decades due to their similarity to linear codes over finite fields. A distributed storage system uses a linear code to encode a large file across…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Daniel P. Bossaller , Hiram H. López

Maximum run-length limited codes are constraint codes used in communication and data storage systems. Insertion/deletion correcting codes correct insertion or deletion errors caused in transmitted sequences and are used for combating…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Reona Takemoto , Takayuki Nozaki

In distributed storage systems, erasure codes with locality $r$ is preferred because a coordinate can be recovered by accessing at most $r$ other coordinates which in turn greatly reduces the disk I/O complexity for small $r$. However, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-20 Anyu Wang , Zhifang Zhang

Maximum distance separable (MDS) array codes are XOR-based optimal erasure codes that are particularly suitable for use in disk arrays. This paper develops an innovative method to build MDS array codes from an elegant class of nested…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Nattakan Puttarak , Phisan Kaewprapha , Boon Chong Ng , Jing , Li

We prove that a class of distance-optimal local reconstruction codes (LRCs), an important family of repair-efficient codes for distributed storage systems, achieve the maximum distance separable private information retrieval capacity for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Siddhartha Kumar , Hsuan-Yin Lin , Eirik Rosnes , Alexandre Graell i Amat

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

The problem of exact repair of a failed node in multi-hop networked distributed storage systems is considered. Contrary to the most of the current studies which model the repair process by the direct links from surviving nodes to the new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-14 Majid Gerami , Ming Xiao

This paper presents and analyzes a novel concatenated coding scheme for enabling error resilience in two distributed storage settings: one being storage using existing regenerating codes and the second being storage using locally repairable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-12 Natalia Silberstein , Ankit Singh Rawat , Sriram Vishwanath

Locally repairable codes (LRCs) have recently been widely used in distributed storage systems and the LRCs with $(r,\delta)$-locality ($(r,\delta)$-LRCs) attracted a lot of interest for tolerating multiple erasures. Ge et al. constructed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Yaxin Wang , Siman Yang