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DNA synthesis is considered as one of the most expensive components in current DNA storage systems. In this paper, focusing on a common synthesis machine, which generates multiple DNA strands in parallel following a fixed supersequence,we…

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We construct efficient data structures that are resilient against a constant fraction of adversarial noise. Our model requires that the decoder answers most queries correctly with high probability and for the remaining queries, the decoder…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-01-27 Victor Chen , Elena Grigorescu , Ronald de Wolf

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

Motivated by applications in polymer-based data storage we introduced the new problem of characterizing the code rate and designing constant-weight binary $B_2$-sequences. Binary $B_2$-sequences are collections of binary strings of length…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Jin Sima , Yun-Han Li , Ilan Shomorony , Olgica Milenkovic

Reed-Solomon (RS) codes are widely used in distributed storage systems. In this paper, we study the repair bandwidth and sub-packetization size of RS codes. The repair bandwidth is defined as the amount of transmitted information from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Weiqi Li , Zhiying Wang , Hamid Jafarkhani

In this paper we study a variant of string pattern matching which deals with tuples of strings known as \textit{multi-track strings}. Multi-track strings are a generalisation of strings (or \textit{single-track strings}) that have primarily…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Carl Barton , Ewan Birney , Tomas Fitzgerald

We consider the problem of communication efficient secure distributed matrix multiplication. The previous literature has focused on reducing the number of servers as a proxy for minimizing communication costs. The intuition being, that the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Roberto Assis Machado , Rafael G. L. D'Oliveira , Salim El Rouayheb , Daniel Heinlein

Block codes are considered for improving the reliability of messages stored in a computer memory with both stuck-at defects and random errors. It is assumed that the side information about the state of the defects is available to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Ivana Djurdjevic , Robert Mateescu , Cyril Guyot

Despite their exceptional error-correcting properties, Reed-Solomon (RS) codes have been overlooked in distributed storage applications due to the common belief that they have poor repair bandwidth: A naive repair approach would require the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Hoang Dau , Iwan Duursma , Han Mao Kiah , Olgica Milenkovic

List recovery of error-correcting codes has emerged as a fundamental notion with broad applications across coding theory and theoretical computer science. Folded Reed-Solomon (FRS) and univariate multiplicity codes are explicit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Rohan Goyal , Venkatesan Guruswami

In order to achieve fault tolerance, highly reliable system often require the ability to detect errors as soon as they occur and prevent the speared of erroneous information throughout the system. Thus, the need for codes capable of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-02-08 Muzhir Al-Ani , Qeethara Al-Shayea

Regenerating codes provide an efficient way to recover data at failed nodes in distributed storage systems. It has been shown that regenerating codes can be designed to minimize the per-node storage (called MSR) or minimize the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-14 Yunghsiang S. Han , Hong-Ta Pai , Rong Zheng , Pramod K. Varshney

This paper presents a novel coding scheme for distributed storage systems containing nodes with adversarial errors. The key challenge in such systems is the propagation of erroneous data from a single corrupted node to the rest of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-17 Natalia Silberstein , Ankit Singh Rawat , Sriram Vishwanath

We describe a strategy for constructing codes for DNA-based information storage by serial composition of weighted finite-state transducers. The resulting state machines can integrate correction of substitution errors; synchronization by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Ian Holmes

Motivated by recent developments in coding theory, particular in list-decoding, we introduce a new error model which we call semi-adversarial errors. This error model bridges between fully random errors and fully adversarial errors by…

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The two-dimensional magnetic recording (TDMR) technology promises storage densities of $10$ terabits per square inch. However, when tracks are squeezed together, a bit stored in the two-dimensional (TD) grid suffers inter-symbol…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Beyza Dabak , Ahmed Hareedy , Robert Calderbank

This work investigates an efficient solution to two fundamental problems in topology optimization of frame structures. The first one involves minimizing structural compliance under linear-elastic equilibrium and weight constraint, while the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-28 Marouan Handa , Marek Tyburec , Michal Kočvara

Despite their exceptional error-correcting properties, Reed-Solomon codes have been overlooked in distributed storage applications due to the common belief that they have poor repair bandwidth: A naive repair approach would require the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Hoang Dau , Iwan Duursma , Han Mao Kiah , Olgica Milenkovic

In this paper, we propose two new constructions of exact-repair minimum storage regenerating (exact-MBR) codes. Both constructions obtain the encoded symbols by first treating the message vector over GF(q) as a linearized polynomial and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-22 Hongmei Xie , Zhiyuan Yan

We propose coding techniques that limit the length of homopolymers runs, ensure the GC-content constraint, and are capable of correcting a single edit error in strands of nucleotides in DNA-based data storage systems. In particular, for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Tuan Thanh Nguyen , Kui Cai , Kees A. Schouhamer Immink , Han Mao Kiah