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Entanglement renormalization can be viewed as an encoding circuit for a family of approximate quantum error correcting codes. The logical information becomes progressively more well-protected against erasure errors at larger length scales.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-14 Isaac H. Kim , Michael J. Kastoryano

Spreading and storing erasure-coded data in distributed systems effectively is challenging in real settings. Practical deployments must contend with unpredictable network latencies, particularly when information dispersal is integrated into…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Rithwik Kerur , Divyakant Agrawal , Michael K. Reiter , Dahlia Malkhi

We design and implement a network-coding-enabled reliability architecture for next generation wireless networks. Our network coding (NC) architecture uses a flexible thread-based design, with each encoder-decoder instance applying…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-08-05 S. Teerapittayanon , K. Fouli , M. Medard , M. -J. Montpetit , X. Shi , I. Seskar , A. Gosain

Erasure coding has been recognized as a powerful method to mitigate delays due to slow or straggling nodes in distributed systems. This work shows that erasure coding of data objects can flexibly handle skews in the request rates. Coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Mehmet Aktas , Gauri Joshi , Swanand Kadhe , Fatemeh Kazemi , Emina Soljanin

A quantum message is encoded into $N$ storage nodes (quantum systems $Q_1\dots Q_N$) with assistance from $N_B$ maximally entangled bi-partite quantum systems $A_1B_1, \dots, A_{N_B}B_{N_B}$, that are prepared in advance such that $B_1\dots…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Hua Sun , Syed A. Jafar

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

This paper studies a layered coding framework with a relaxed hierarchical structure. Advances in wired/wireless communication and consumer electronic devices have created a requirement for serving the same content at different quality…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-09 Mehdi Salehifar , Tejaswi Nanjundaswamy , Kenneth Rose

A system is offered for imitation resistant transmitting of encrypted information in wireless communication networks on the basis of redundant residue polynomial codes. The particular feature of this solution is complexing of methods for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-10 Dmitry Samoylenko , Mikhail Eremeev , Oleg Finko , Sergey Dichenko

In 2018, Yang et al. introduced a novel and effective approach, using maximum distance separable (MDS) codes, to mitigate the impact of elasticity in cloud computing systems. This approach is referred to as coded elastic computing. Some…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Xi Zhong , Joerg Kliewer , Mingyue Ji

Analog Lagrange Coded Computing (ALCC) is a recently proposed computational paradigm wherein certain computations over analog datasets are efficiently performed using distributed worker nodes through floating point representation. While the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Rimpi Borah , J. Harshan

In cloud storage systems, hot data is usually replicated over multiple nodes in order to accommodate simultaneous access by multiple users as well as increase the fault tolerance of the system. Recent cloud storage research has proposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Mehmet Fatih Aktas , Elie Najm , Emina Soljanin

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

Entanglement assistance can improve communication rates significantly. Yet, its generation is susceptible to failure. The unreliable assistance model accounts for those challenges. Previous work provided an asymptotic formula that outlines…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-04 Uzi Pereg

High capacity and scalable memory systems play a vital role in enabling our desktops, smartphones, and pervasive technologies like Internet of Things (IoT). Unfortunately, memory systems are becoming increasingly prone to faults. This is…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Prashant J. Nair

Our paper presents solutions that can significantly improve the delay performance of putting and retrieving data in and out of cloud storage. We first focus on measuring the delay performance of a very popular cloud storage service Amazon…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-11-04 Guanfeng Liang , Ulas C. Kozat

In large-scale distributed storage systems, erasure codes are used to achieve fault tolerance in the face of node failures. Tuning code parameters to observed failure rates has been shown to significantly reduce storage cost. Such tuning of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Francisco Maturana , V. S. Chaitanya Mukka , K. V. Rashmi

Motivated by distributed storage applications, we investigate the degree to which capacity achieving encodings can be efficiently updated when a single information bit changes, and the degree to which such encodings can be efficiently…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-08 Arya Mazumdar , Venkat Chandar , Gregory W. Wornell

This paper introduces a new approach to proving that a sequence of deterministic linear codes achieves capacity on an erasure channel under maximum a posteriori decoding. Rather than relying on the precise structure of the codes, this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Santhosh Kumar , Henry D. Pfister

This work investigates a system where each user aims to retrieve a scalar linear function of the files of a library, which are Maximum Distance Separable coded and stored at multiple distributed servers. The system needs to guarantee robust…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Qifa Yan , Daniela Tuninetti

This paper proposes Fulcrum network codes, a network coding framework that achieves three seemingly conflicting objectives: (i) to reduce the coding coefficient overhead to almost n bits per packet in a generation of n packets; (ii) to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-19 Daniel E. Lucani , Morten V. Pedersen , Diego Ruano , Chres W. Sørensen , Frank H. P. Fitzek , Janus Heide , Olav Geil