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Classical locally recoverable codes (LRCs) have become indispensable in distributed storage systems. They provide efficient recovery in terms of localized errors. Quantum LRCs have very recently been introduced for their potential…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Gaojun Luo , Bocong Chen , Martianus Frederic Ezerman , San Ling

An $[n,k]$ code $\mathcal{C}$ is said to be locally recoverable in the presence of a single erasure, and with locality parameter $r$, if each of the $n$ code symbols of $\mathcal{C}$ can be recovered by accessing at most $r$ other code…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-20 S. B. Balaji , Ganesh R. Kini , P. Vijay Kumar

In a recent work, quantum locally recoverable codes (qLRCs) have been introduced for their potential application in large-scale quantum data storage and implication for quantum LDPC codes. This work focuses on the bounds and constructions…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Yang Li , Shitao Li , Huimin Lao , Gaojun Luo , San Ling

Codes with locality, also known as locally recoverable codes, allow for recovery of erasures using proper subsets of other coordinates. These subsets are typically of small cardinality to promote recovery using limited network traffic and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Kathryn Haymaker , Beth Malmskog , Gretchen L. Matthews

Consider a $q$-ary block code satisfying the property that no $l$-letters long codeword's prefix occurs as a suffix of any codeword for $l$ inside some interval. We determine a general upper bound on the maximum size of these codes and a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Lidija Stanovnik

Locally repairable codes (LRCs), which can recover any symbol of a codeword by reading only a small number of other symbols, have been widely used in real-world distributed storage systems, such as Microsoft Azure Storage and Ceph Storage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Wenqin Zhang , Deng Tang , Chenhao Ying , Yuan Luo

We propose a new model of asynchronous batch codes that allow for parallel recovery of information symbols from a coded database in an asynchronous manner, i.e. when queries arrive at random times and they take varying time to process. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Ago-Erik Riet , Vitaly Skachek , Eldho K. Thomas

Distributed and cloud storage systems are used to reliably store large-scale data. Erasure codes have been recently proposed and used in real-world distributed and cloud storage systems such as Google File System, Microsoft Azure Storage,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Mehrtash Mehrabi , Massoud Ardakani

Cyclic codes are an important class of linear codes. Bounding the minimum distance of cyclic codes is a long-standing research topic in coding theory, and several well-known and basic results have been developed on this topic. Recently,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Jing Qiu , Weijun Fang , Fang-Wei Fu

For $q,n,d \in \mathbb{N}$, let $A_q^L(n,d)$ denote the maximum cardinality of a code $C \subseteq \mathbb{Z}_q^n$ with minimum Lee distance at least $d$, where $\mathbb{Z}_q$ denotes the cyclic group of order $q$. We consider a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-19 Sven Polak

In this paper, we present three new classes of $q$-ary quantum MDS codes utilizing generalized Reed-Solomon codes satisfying Hermitian self-orthogonal property. Among our constructions, the minimum distance of some $q$-ary quantum MDS codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Xiaolei Fang , Jinquan Luo

We consider linear cyclic codes with the locality property, or locally recoverable codes (LRC codes). A family of LRC codes that generalizes the classical construction of Reed-Solomon codes was constructed in a recent paper by I. Tamo and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-06 Itzhak Tamo , Alexander Barg , Sreechakra Goparaju , Robert Calderbank

Geometrically local quantum codes, which are error correction codes embedded in $\mathbb{R}^D$ with checks acting only on qubits within a fixed spatial distance, have garnered significant interest. Recently, it has been demonstrated how to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Quinten Eggerickx , Adam Wills , Ting-Chun Lin , Kristiaan De Greve , Min-Hsiu Hsieh

In general, array codes consist of $m\times n$ arrays and in many cases, the arrays satisfy parity constraints along lines of different slopes (generally with a toroidal topology). Such codes are useful for RAID type of architectures, since…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Mario Blaum , Steven R. Hetzler

Two-dimensional error-correcting codes, where codewords are represented as $n \times n$ arrays over a $q$-ary alphabet, find important applications in areas such as QR codes, DNA-based storage, and racetrack memories. Among the possible…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Wenhao Liu , Zhengyi Jiang , Zhongyi Huang , Hanxu Hou

In this paper, we study codes with locality that can recover from two erasures via a sequence of two local, parity-check computations. By a local parity-check computation, we mean recovery via a single parity-check equation associated to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-28 N. Prakash , V. Lalitha , P. Vijay Kumar

Linear codes are widely studied in coding theory as they have nice applications in distributed storage, combinatorics, lattices, cryptography and so on. Constructing linear codes with desirable properties is an interesting research topic.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Ziling Heng , Xiaoru Li , Yansheng Wu , Qi Wang

In this work, we prove new results concerning the combinatorial properties of random linear codes. Firstly, we prove a lower bound on the list-size required for random linear codes over $\mathbb F_q$ $\varepsilon$-close to capacity to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Nicolas Resch , Chen Yuan

A code $C \colon \{0,1\}^k \to \{0,1\}^n$ is a $q$-locally decodable code ($q$-LDC) if one can recover any chosen bit $b_i$ of the message $b \in \{0,1\}^k$ with good confidence by randomly querying the encoding $x := C(b)$ on at most $q$…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Omar Alrabiah , Venkatesan Guruswami , Pravesh K. Kothari , Peter Manohar

In this paper, we give upper bounds on the sizes of $(d, L)$ list-decodable codes in the Hamming metric space from covering codes with the covering radius smaller than or equal to $d$. When the list size $L$ is $1$, this gives many new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Hao Chen , Longjiang Qu , Chengju Li , Shanxiang Lyu , Liqing Xu