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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

Erasure codes are an efficient means of storing data across a network in comparison to data replication, as they tend to reduce the amount of data stored in the network and offer increased resilience in the presence of node failures. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 K. V. Rashmi , Nihar B. Shah , P. Vijay Kumar

We address the multi-node failure repair challenges for MDS array codes. Presently, two primary models are employed for multi-node repairs: the centralized model where all failed nodes are restored in a singular data center, and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Zihao Zhang , Guodong Li , Sihuang Hu

Reed-Solomon (RS) codes are an important class of non-binary error-correction codes. They are particularly competent in correcting burst errors, being widely applied in modern communications and data storage systems. This also thanks to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Xiaoqian Ye , Jingyu Lin , Junjie Huang , Li Chen , Chang-An Zhao

Erasure correcting codes are widely used to ensure data persistence in distributed storage systems. This paper addresses the simultaneous repair of multiple failures in such codes. We go beyond existing work (i.e., regenerating codes by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-18 Anne-Marie Kermarrec , Gilles Straub , Nicolas Le Scouarnec

Locally repairable codes enables fast repair of node failure in a distributed storage system. The code symbols in a codeword are stored in different storage nodes, such that a disk failure can be recovered by accessing a small fraction of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Kenneth W. Shum , Jie Hao

The piggybacking framework for designing erasure codes for distributed storage has empirically proven to be very useful, and has been used to design codes with desirable properties, such as low repair bandwidth and complexity. However, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Reyna Hulett , Mary Wootters

The paper is devoted to the problem of erasure coding in distributed storage. We consider a model of storage that assumes that nodes are organized into equally sized groups, called racks, that within each group the nodes can communicate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Zitan Chen , Alexander Barg

A distributed storage system stores data across multiple nodes, with the primary objective of enabling efficient data recovery even in the event of node failures. The main goal of an exact repair scheme is to recover the data from a failed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Hiram H. López , Gretchen L. Matthews , Daniel Valvo

Minimum storage regenerating (MSR) codes, with the MDS property and the optimal repair bandwidth, are widely used in distributed storage systems (DSS) for data recovery. In this paper, we consider the construction of $(n,k,l)$ MSR codes in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Shenghua Li , Maximilien Gadouleau , Jiaojiao Wang , Dabin Zheng

Network transfer and disk read are the most time consuming operations in the repair process for node failures in erasure-code-based distributed storage systems. Recent developments on Reed-Solomon codes, the most widely used erasure codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Hoang Dau , Iwan Duursma , Hien Chu

Using the idea of interference alignment, Suh and Ramchandran constructed a class of minimum-storage regenerating codes which can repair one systematic or one parity-check node with optimal repair bandwidth. With the same code structure, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-15 Junyu Chen , Kenneth W. Shum

Linearized Reed--Solomon (LRS) codes are sum-rank-metric codes that generalize both Reed--Solomon and Gabidulin codes. We study vertically and horizontally interleaved LRS (VILRS and HILRS) codes whose codewords consist of a fixed number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Felicitas Hörmann , Hannes Bartz

When a node in a distributed storage system fails, it needs to be promptly repaired to maintain system integrity. While typical erasure codes can provide a significant storage advantage over replication, they suffer from poor repair…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Geonu Kim , Jungwoo Lee

This paper studies the parameters for which Reed-Muller (RM) codes over $GF(2)$ can correct random erasures and random errors with high probability, and in particular when can they achieve capacity for these two classical channels.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Emmanuel Abbe , Amir Shpilka , Avi Wigderson

Consider the following fundamental question of distributed storage networks: Given any arbitrary $(n,k,d)$ values, whether there exists an intelligent helper selection scheme (assuming unlimited memory and computing power) that can strictly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Imad Ahmad , Chih-Chun Wang

Repairing locality is an appreciated feature for distributed storage, in which a damaged or lost data share can be repaired by accessing a subset of other shares much smaller than is required for decoding the complete data. However for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Yue Fu , Shuhao Sun , Dagang Li , Peng Liu

A general class of polynomial remainder codes is considered. Such codes are very flexible in rate and length and include Reed-Solomon codes as a special case. As an extension of previous work, two joint error-and-erasure decoding approaches…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-27 Jiun-Hung Yu

Erasure codes have emerged as an efficient technology for providing data redundancy in distributed storage systems. However, it is a challenging task to repair the failed storage nodes in erasure-coded storage systems, which requires large…

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

We consider the problem of multiple-node repair in distributed storage systems under the cooperative model, where the repair bandwidth includes the amount of data exchanged between any two different storage nodes. Recently, explicit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Min Ye