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In the context of distributed storage systems, locally repairable codes have become important. In this paper we focus on codes that allow for multi-erasure pattern decoding with low computational effort. Different optimality requirements,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Margreta Kuijper , Julia Lieb , Diego Napp

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

A locally recoverable (LRC) code is a code over a finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$ such that any erased coordinate of a codeword can be recovered from a small number of other coordinates in that codeword. We construct LRC codes correcting more…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Carlos Galindo , Fernando Hernando , Carlos Munuera

Streaming codes are a class of packet-level erasure codes that are designed with the goal of ensuring recovery in low-latency fashion, of erased packets over a communication network. It is well-known in the streaming code literature, that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Vinayak Ramkumar , Myna Vajha , P. Vijay Kumar

Partial maximum distance separable (PMDS) codes are a kind of erasure codes where the nodes are divided into multiple groups with each forming an MDS code with a smaller code length, thus they allow repairing a failed node with only a few…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Jie Li , Xiaohu Tang , Hanxu Hou , Yunghsiang S. Han , Bo Bai , Gong Zhang

A code is called a locally repairable code (LRC) if any code symbol is a function of a small fraction of other code symbols. When a locally repairable code is employed in a distributed storage systems, an erased symbol can be recovered by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Wei Zhao , Kenneth W. Shum , Shenghao Yang

Typically, locally repairable codes (LRCs) and regenerating codes have been studied independently of each other, and it has not been clear how the parameters of one relate to those of the other. In this paper, a novel connection between…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Toni Ernvall , Thomas Westerbäck , Ragnar Freij-Hollanti , Camilla Hollanti

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 storage arrays. Compared to previous related works,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-29 Pengfei Huang , Eitan Yaakobi , Paul H. Siegel

Locally recoverable (LRC) codes provide a solution to single node failure in distributed storage systems, where it is a very common problem. On the other hand, linear complementary dual (LCD) codes are useful in fault injections attacks on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Charul Rajput , Maheshanand Bhaintwal , Ramakrishna Bandi

The matrix completion problem provides a unifying lens through which many fundamental problems in coding theory can be viewed. In this paper, we investigate Locally Recoverable Codes (LRCs) with Maximal Recoverability (MR) and Maximum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Sakshi Dang , Julia Lieb , Pedro Soto , Alex Sprintson

Locally repairable codes (LRCs) have received significant recent attention as a method of designing data storage systems robust to server failure. Optimal LRCs offer the ideal trade-off between minimum distance and locality, a measure of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Allison Beemer , Ryan Coatney , Venkatesan Guruswami , Hiram H. López , Fernando Piñero

In this paper, we discuss codes for distributed storage systems with hierarchical repair properties. Specifically, we devote attention to the repair problem of the rack-aware storage model with locality, aiming to enhance the system's…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Yumeng Yang , Han Cai , Xiaohu Tang

Locally repairable codes (LRC) have recently been a subject of intense research due to theoretical appeal and their application in distributed storage systems. In an LRC, any coordinate of a codeword can be recovered by accessing only few…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-29 Abhishek Agarwal , Arya Mazumdar

Locally decodable codes (LDCs) are error-correcting codes $C : \Sigma^k \to \Sigma^n$ that admit a local decoding algorithm that recovers each individual bit of the message by querying only a few bits from a noisy codeword. An important…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Vahid R. Asadi , Igor Shinkar

In a distributed storage system based on erasure coding, an important problem is the \emph{repair problem}: If a node storing a coded piece fails, in order to maintain the same level of reliability, we need to create a new encoded piece and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yunnan Wu

We consider the problem of constructing binary codes for correcting deletions that are localized within certain parts of the codeword that are unknown a priori. The model that we study is when $\delta \leq w$ deletions are localized in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Serge Kas Hanna , Salim El Rouayheb

The repair problem in distributed storage addresses recovery of the data encoded using an erasure code, for instance, a Reed-Solomon (RS) code. We consider the problem of repairing a single node or multiple nodes in RS-coded storage systems…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-07 Itzhak Tamo , Min Ye , Alexander Barg

A locally recoverable code is an error-correcting code such that any erasure in a coordinate of a codeword can be recovered from a set of other few coordinates. In this article we introduce a model of local recoverable codes that also…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Carlos Munuera

Regenerating codes and codes with locality are two schemes that have recently been proposed to ensure data collection and reliability in a distributed storage network. In a situation where one is attempting to repair a failed node,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-05 Govinda M. Kamath , N. Prakash , V. Lalitha , P. Vijay Kumar

Locally Decodable Codes (LDCs) are error correcting codes which permit the recovery of any single message symbol with a low number of queries to the codeword (the locality). Traditional LDC tradeoffs between the rate, locality, and error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jeremiah Blocki , Justin Zhang