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Batch codes serve as critical tools for load balancing in distributed storage systems. While numerous constructions exist for specific batch sizes t, current methodologies predominantly rely on code dimension parameters, limiting their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Eldho K. Thomas

Reliability in distributed storage systems has typically focused on the design and deployment of data replication or erasure coding techniques. Although some scenarios have considered the use of replication for hot data and erasure coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Daniel E. Lucani , Marcell Fehér

Cloud computing is a general term that involves delivering hosted services over the Internet. With the accelerated growth of the volume of data used by applications, many organizations have moved their data into cloud servers to provide…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Robson A. Campêlo , Marco A. Casanova , Dorgival O. Guedes , Alberto H. F. Laender

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

Coded caching is a technique that leverages locally cached contents at the end users to reduce the network's peak-time communication load. Coded caching has been shown to achieve significant performance gains with a centralized placement…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Yinbin Ma , Daniela Tuninetti

Erasure codes, such as Reed-Solomon (RS) codes, are being increasingly employed in data centers to combat the cost of reliably storing large amounts of data. Although these codes provide optimal storage efficiency, they require…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-09-03 K. V. Rashmi , Nihar B. Shah , Dikang Gu , Hairong Kuang , Dhruba Borthakur , Kannan Ramchandran

We investigate the coded caching scheme under heterogenous cache sizes.

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-01 Sinong Wang , Wenxin Li , Xiaohua Tian , Hui Liu

Homomorphic encryption (HE) is a promising cryptographic technique for enabling secure collaborative machine learning in the cloud. However, support for homomorphic computation on ciphertexts under multiple keys is inefficient. Current…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Asma Aloufi , Peizhao Hu

In cost-sensitive deployments, RAID arrays may combine SSDs with different performance levels. Such heterogeneity arises when aging SSDs degrade yet remain usable, or when failed drives are replaced with new devices of explicitly better…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Jialin Liu , Liang Shi , Dingcui Yu

We propose a new family of spatially coupled product codes, called sub-block rearranged staircase (SR-staircase) codes. Each code block of SR-staircase codes is obtained by encoding rearranged preceding code blocks and new information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Min Qiu , Jinhong Yuan

We propose a new family of spatially coupled product codes, called sub-block rearranged staircase (SR-staircase) codes. Each SR-staircase code block is constructed by encoding rearranged preceding code blocks and new information blocks,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Min Qiu , Jinhong Yuan

This paper describes a non-homogeneous distributed storage systems (DSS), where there is one super node which has a larger storage size and higher reliability and availability than the other storage nodes. We propose three distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-13 Vo Tam Van , Chau Yuen , Jing Li

Data management applications store their data using structured files in which data are usually sorted to serve indexing and queries. However, in-place insertions and removals of data are not naturally supported in a file's address space. To…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Chen Chen , Wenshao Zhong , Xingbo Wu

Locally repairable codes for distributed storage systems have gained a lot of interest recently, and various constructions can be found in the literature. However, most of the constructions result in either large field sizes and hence too…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Matthias Grezet , Ragnar Freij-Hollanti , Thomas Westerbäck , Camilla Hollanti

The paper introduces confidential computing approaches focused on protecting hierarchical data within edge-cloud network. Edge-cloud network suggests splitting and sharing data between the main cloud and the range of networks near the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Yeghisabet Alaverdyan , Suren Poghosyan , Vahagn Poghosyan

Distributed systems store data objects redundantly to balance the data access load over multiple nodes. Load balancing performance depends mainly on 1) the level of storage redundancy and 2) the assignment of data objects to storage nodes.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Mehmet Aktas , Emina Soljanin

As more and more service providers choose Cloud platforms, which is provided by third party resource providers, resource providers needs to provision resources for heterogeneous workloads in different Cloud scenarios. Taking into account…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-07-22 Jianfeng Zhan , Lei Wang , Weisong Shi , Shimin Gong , Xiutao Zang

The increasing availability of data from diverse sources, including trusted entities such as governments, as well as untrusted crowd-sourced contributors, demands a secure and trustworthy environment for storage and retrieval. Blockchain,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Aishwarya Parab , Prakhar Pradhan , Yogesh Simmhan , Arnab K. Paul

Slow working nodes, known as stragglers, can greatly reduce the speed of distributed computation. Coded matrix multiplication is a recently introduced technique that enables straggler-resistant distributed multiplication of large matrices.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Shahrzad Kiani , Nuwan Ferdinand , Stark C. Draper

This paper proposes a hierarchical solution to scale streaming services across quality and resource dimensions. Modern scenarios, like smart cities, heavily rely on the continuous processing of IoT data to provide real-time services and…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Boris Sedlak , Andrea Morichetta , Philipp Raith , Víctor Casamayor Pujol , Schahram Dustdar