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Multidimensional Scaling (MDS) is one of the most popular methods for dimensionality reduction and visualization of high dimensional data. Apart from these tasks, it also found applications in the field of geometry processing for the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Amit Boyarski , Alex M. Bronstein , Michael M. Bronstein

Regenerating codes enable trading off repair bandwidth for storage in distributed storage systems (DSS). Due to their distributed nature, these systems are intrinsically susceptible to attacks, and they may also be subject to multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-10 O. Ozan Koyluoglu , Ankit Singh Rawat , Sriram Vishwanath

Most large-scale storage systems employ erasure coding to provide resilience against disk failures. Recent work has shown that tuning this redundancy to changes in disk failure rates leads to substantial storage savings. This process…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Saransh Chopra , Francisco Maturana , K. V. Rashmi

A linear code with parameters of the form $[n, k, n-k+1]$ is referred to as an MDS (maximum distance separable) code. A linear code with parameters of the form $[n, k, n-k]$ is said to be almost MDS (i.e., almost maximum distance separable)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Qiuyan Wang , Ziling Heng

In the \textit{Distributed Storage Systems} (DSSs), an encoded fraction of information is stored in the distributed fashion on different chunk servers. Recently a new paradigm of \textit{Fractional Repetition} (FR) codes have been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Krishna Gopal Benerjee , Manish K Gupta

An erasure channel with a fixed alphabet size $q$, where $q \gg 1$, is studied. It is proved that over any erasure channel (with or without memory), Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) codes achieve the minimum probability of error (assuming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-06-06 Shervan Fashandi , Shahab Oveis Gharan , Amir K. Khandani

We investigate the service-rate region (SRR) of distributed storage systems that employ linear codes. We focus on systems where each server stores one code symbol, and a user recovers a data symbol by accessing any of its recovery groups,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Hoang Ly , Emina Soljanin

In large-scale distributed storage systems, erasure coding is employed to ensure reliability against disk failures. Recent work by Kadekodi et al. demonstrates that adapting code parameters to varying disk failure rates can lead to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Vinayak Ramkumar , Xiangliang Kong , G. Yeswanth Sai , Myna Vajha , M. Nikhil Krishnan

In this paper, we present two constructions of degraded read friendly (DRF) MDS array codes with two parity nodes and a sub-packetization level of 2 over small finite fields, applicable for any arbitrary code length. The first construction…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jie Li , Xiaohu Tang

The determination of the maximal length of maximum distance separable (MDS) codes arising from elliptic curves is a central problem in coding theory. For an elliptic curve $E$ over $\mathbb{F}_q$, let $\operatorname{MEC}(k,q)$ denote the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Haojie Chen , Chuangqiang Hu , Junjie Huang , Chang-An Zhao

Locally recoverable (LRC) codes have recently been a focus point of research in coding theory due to their theoretical appeal and applications in distributed storage systems. In an LRC code, any erased symbol of a codeword can be recovered…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Abhishek Agarwal , Alexander Barg , Sihuang Hu , Arya Mazumdar , Itzhak Tamo

Erasure coding techniques are used to increase the reliability of distributed storage systems while minimizing storage overhead. Also of interest is minimization of the bandwidth required to repair the system following a node failure. In a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-10-06 K. V. Rashmi , Nihar B. Shah , P. Vijay Kumar , Kannan Ramchandran

In a recent paper, Brakensiek, Gopi and Makam introduced higher order MDS codes as a generalization of MDS codes. An order-$\ell$ MDS code, denoted by $\operatorname{MDS}(\ell)$, has the property that any $\ell$ subspaces formed from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Joshua Brakensiek , Sivakanth Gopi , Visu Makam

Products of MDS codes are of major practical importance; for a recent example, they are used in Data Availability Sampling (DAS) in blockchain networks such as Celestia and as part of the Ethereum roadmap. This motivates us to consider…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Amit Berman , Yaron Shany , Itzhak Tamo

Maximum distance separable (MDS) and near maximum distance separable (NMDS) codes have been widely used in various fields such as communication systems, data storage, and quantum codes due to their algebraic properties and excellent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Yujie Zhi , Shixin Zhu

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

To solve the access-balancing problem in distributed storage systems, we introduce a new combinatorial model, called MinVar model for fractional repetition (FR) codes. Since FR codes are based on graphs or set systems, our MinVar model is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Wenjun Yu , Xiande Zhang , Gennian Ge

A lower bound on the maximum likelihood (ML) decoding error exponent of linear block code ensembles, on the erasure channel, is developed. The lower bound turns to be positive, over an ensemble specific interval of erasure probabilities,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Enrico Paolini , Gianluigi Liva

We study the performance of Reed-Solomon (RS) codes for the \em exact repair problem \em in distributed storage. Our main result is that, in some parameter regimes, Reed-Solomon codes are optimal regenerating codes, among MDS codes with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-10 Venkatesan Guruswami , Mary Wootters

The $(n,k,d)$ regenerating code is a class of $(n,k)$ erasure codes with the capability to recover a lost code fragment from other $d$ existing code fragments. This paper concentrates on the design of exact regenerating codes at Minimum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-17 Sian-Jheng Lin , Wei-Ho Chung