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Erasure codes have become an integral part of distributed storage systems as a tool for providing data reliability and durability under the constant threat of device failures. In such systems, an $[n, k]$ code over a finite field…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Francisco Maturana , K. V. Rashmi

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 large-scale distributed storage systems, erasure codes are used to achieve fault tolerance in the face of node failures. Tuning code parameters to observed failure rates has been shown to significantly reduce storage cost. Such tuning of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Francisco Maturana , V. S. Chaitanya Mukka , K. V. Rashmi

Distributed storage systems must store large amounts of data over long periods of time. To avoid data loss due to device failures, an $[n,k]$ erasure code is used to encode $k$ data symbols into a codeword of $n$ symbols that are stored…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Francisco Maturana , K. V. Rashmi

Peer-to-peer distributed storage systems provide reliable access to data through redundancy spread over nodes across the Internet. A key goal is to minimize the amount of bandwidth used to maintain that redundancy. Storing a file using an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Alexandros G. Dimakis , P. Brighten Godfrey , Martin J. Wainwright , Kannan Ramchandran

Distributed storage systems must handle both data heterogeneity, arising from non-uniform access demands, and device heterogeneity, caused by time-varying node reliability. In this paper, we study convertible codes, which enable the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Anina Gruica , Benjamin Jany , Stanislav Kruglik

Distributed storage systems provide reliable access to data through redundancy spread over individually unreliable nodes. Application scenarios include data centers, peer-to-peer storage systems, and storage in wireless networks. Storing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2008-03-06 Alexandros G. Dimakis , P. Brighten Godfrey , Yunnan Wu , Martin J. Wainwright , Kannan Ramchandran

Recent advances in erasure coding for distributed storage systems have demonstrated that adapting redundancy to varying disk failure rates can lead to substantial storage savings. Such adaptation requires code conversion, wherein data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Shubhransh Singhvi , Saransh Chopra , K. V. Rashmi

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

Modern large-scale distributed storage systems use erasure codes to protect against node failures with low storage overhead. In practice, the failure rate and other factors of storage devices in the system may vary significantly over time,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Xiangliang Kong

This paper investigates the use of redundancy and self repairing against node failures in distributed storage systems, using various strategies. In replication method, access to one replication node is sufficient to reconstruct a lost node,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-10-03 Abbas Kiani , Soroush Akhlaghi

Error-correcting codes are essential for ensuring fault tolerance in modern distributed data storage systems. However, in practice, factors such as the failure rates of storage devices can vary significantly over time, resulting in changes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Haoming Shi , Weijun Fang , Yuan Gao

Cloud storage systems generally add redundancy in storing content files such that $K$ files are replicated or erasure coded and stored on $N > K$ nodes. In addition to providing reliability against failures, the redundant copies can be used…

Distributed storage systems often introduce redundancy to increase reliability. When coding is used, the repair problem arises: if a node storing encoded information fails, in order to maintain the same level of reliability we need to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-04-27 Alexandros G. Dimakis , Kannan Ramchandran , Yunnan Wu , Changho Suh

Maximum-distance-separable (MDS) codes are a class of erasure codes that are widely adopted to enhance the reliability of distributed storage systems (DSS). In (n, k) MDS coded DSS, the original data are stored into n distributed nodes in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-16 Sheng Guan , Haibin Kan , Xin Wang

Erasure codes are being increasingly used in distributed-storage systems in place of data-replication, since they provide the same level of reliability with much lower storage overhead. We consider the problem of constructing explicit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-08 Preetum Nakkiran , K. V. Rashmi , Kannan Ramchandran

The explosion of the amount of data stored in cloud systems calls for more efficient paradigms for redundancy. While replication is widely used to ensure data availability, erasure correcting codes provide a much better trade-off between…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Steve Jiekak , Anne-Marie Kermarrec , Nicolas Le Scouarnec , Gilles Straub , Alexandre Van Kempen

The amount of digital data is rapidly growing. There is an increasing use of a wide range of computer systems, from mobile devices to large-scale data centers, and important for reliable operation of all computer systems is mitigating the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Katina Kralevska

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

Erasure coding techniques are getting integrated in networked distributed storage systems as a way to provide fault-tolerance at the cost of less storage overhead than traditional replication. Redundancy is maintained over time through…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-06-12 Lluis Pamies-Juarez , Frédérique Oggier , Anwitaman Datta
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