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This paper presents flexible storage codes, a class of error-correcting codes that can recover information from a flexible number of storage nodes. As a result, one can make a better use of the available storage nodes in the presence of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Weiqi Li , Zhiying Wang , Taiting Lu , Hamid Jafarkhani

Distributed storage systems employ codes to provide resilience to failure of multiple storage disks. Specifically, an $(n, k)$ MDS code stores $k$ symbols in $n$ disks such that the overall system is tolerant to a failure of up to $n-k$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-16 Sreechakra Goparaju , Itzhak Tamo , Robert Calderbank

Maximum distance separable (MDS) codes have the optimal trade-off between storage efficiency and fault tolerance, which are widely used in distributed storage systems. As typical non-MDS codes, simple regenerating codes (SRCs) can achieve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Zhengyi Jiang , Hao Shi , Zhongyi Huang , Bo Bai , Gong Zhang , Hanxu Hou

A new class of exact-repair regenerating codes is constructed by stitching together shorter erasure correction codes, where the stitching pattern can be viewed as block designs. The proposed codes have the "help-by-transfer" property where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Chao Tian , Birenjith Sasidharan , Vaneet Aggarwal , Vinay A. Vaishampayan , P. Vijay Kumar

In this paper, we consider a hierarchical distributed multi-task learning (MTL) system where distributed users wish to jointly learn different models orchestrated by a central server with the help of a layer of multiple relays. Since the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Haoyang Hu , Songze Li , Minquan Cheng , Youlong Wu

We consider the locally repairable codes (LRC), aiming at sequential recovering multiple erasures. We define the (n,k,r,t)-SLRC (Sequential Locally Repairable Codes) as an [n,k] linear code where any t'(>= t) erasures can be sequentially…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Wentu Song , Kai Cai , Chau Yuen

Reducing computational complexity remains a critical challenge for the widespread adoption of learning-based image compression techniques. In this work, we propose TreeNet, a novel low-complexity image compression model that leverages a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Mahadev Prasad Panda , Purnachandra Rao Makkena , Srivatsa Prativadibhayankaram , Siegfried Fößel , André Kaup

We study the problem of the reconstruction of a Gaussian field defined in [0,1] using N sensors deployed at regular intervals. The goal is to quantify the total data rate required for the reconstruction of the field with a given mean square…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-10-23 Akshay Kashyap , Luis Alfonso Lastras-Montaño , Cathy Xia , Zhen Liu

Replicated tree data structures are extensively used in collaborative applications and distributed file systems, where clients often perform move operations. Local move operations at different replicas may be safe. However, remote move…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Parwat Singh Anjana , Adithya Rajesh Chandrassery , Sathya Peri

We introduce a new family of erasure codes, called group decodable code (GDC), for distributed storage system. Given a set of design parameters {\alpha; \beta; k; t}, where k is the number of information symbols, each codeword of an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-30 Wentu Song , Son Hoang Dau , Chau Yuen

Given a Fractional Repetition code, finding the reconstruction and repair degree in a distributed storage system is an important problem. In this work, we present algorithms for computing the reconstruction and repair degree of fractional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-21 Krishna Gopal Benerjee , Manish K. Gupta , Nikhil Agrawal

Rooted trees with probabilities are convenient to represent a class of random processes with memory. They allow to describe and analyze variable length codes for data compression and distribution matching. In this work, the Leaf-Average…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-05 Georg Böcherer

We consider a simple multiple access network in which a destination node receives information from multiple sources via a set of relay nodes. Each relay node has access to a subset of the sources, and is connected to the destination by a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-22 Wael Halbawi , Tracey Ho , Hongyi Yao , Iwan Duursma

Tandem duplication is the process of inserting a copy of a segment of DNA adjacent to the original position. Motivated by applications that store data in living organisms, Jain et al. (2017) proposed the study of codes that correct tandem…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Yeow Meng Chee , Johan Chrisnata , Han Mao Kiah , Tuan Thanh Nguyen

Efficient resource discovery and availability improvement are very important issues in unstructured P2P networks. In this paper, a bio-inspired resource discovery scheme inspired by the principle of elephants migration is proposed. A…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-09-10 Sabu M. Thampi , K Chandra Sekaran

To recover simultaneous multiple failures in erasure coded storage systems, Patrick Lee et al introduce concurrent repair based minimal storage regenerating codes to reduce repair traffic. The architecture of this approach is simpler and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-25 Huayu Zhang , Hui Li , Hanxu Hou , K. W. Shum , ShuoYen Robert Li

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

We consider replication-based distributed storage systems in which each node stores the same quantum of data and each data bit stored has the same replication factor across the nodes. Such systems are referred to as balanced distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Abhinav Vaishya , Athreya Chandramouli , Srikar Kale , Prasad Krishnan

Program comprehension is a fundamental task in software development and maintenance processes. Software developers often need to understand a large amount of existing code before they can develop new features or fix bugs in existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Vinoj Jayasundara , Nghi Duy Quoc Bui , Lingxiao Jiang , David Lo

The increasing demand for data storage has prompted the exploration of new techniques, with molecular data storage being a promising alternative. In this work, we develop coding schemes for a new storage paradigm that can be represented as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Boaz Moav , Ryan Gabrys , Eitan Yaakobi