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Repair operations in distributed storage systems potentially expose the data to malicious acts of passive eavesdroppers or active adversaries, which can be detrimental to the security of the system. This paper presents erasure codes and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-18 Nihar B. Shah , K. V. Rashmi , Kannan Ramchandran , P. Vijay Kumar

We study the inherent space requirements of shared storage algorithms in asynchronous fault-prone systems. Previous works use codes to achieve a better storage cost than the well-known replication approach. However, a closer look reveals…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-07-21 Alexander Spiegelman , Yuval Cassuto , Gregory Chockler , Idit Keidar

Regenerating codes are a class of codes proposed for providing reliability of data and efficient repair of failed nodes in distributed storage systems. In this paper, we address the fundamental problem of handling errors and erasures during…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-20 K. V. Rashmi , Nihar B. Shah , Kannan Ramchandran , P. Vijay Kumar

Large-scale distributed storage systems typically use erasure codes to provide durability of data in the face of failures. A set of $k$ blocks to be stored is encoded using an $[n, k]$ code to generate $n$ blocks that are then stored on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Francisco Maturana , K. V. Rashmi

Erasure codes are an efficient means of storing data across a network in comparison to data replication, as they tend to reduce the amount of data stored in the network and offer increased resilience in the presence of node failures. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 K. V. Rashmi , Nihar B. Shah , P. Vijay Kumar

The explosion in the volumes of data being stored online has resulted in distributed storage systems transitioning to erasure coding based schemes. Yet, the codes being deployed in practice are fairly short. In this work, we address what we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-22 Parikshit Gopalan , Guangda Hu , Swastik Kopparty , Shubhangi Saraf , Carol Wang , Sergey Yekhanin

Computational storage, known as a solution to significantly reduce the latency by moving data-processing down to the data storage, has received wide attention because of its potential to accelerate data-driven devices at the edge. To meet…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Siyi Yang , Ahmed Hareedy , Robert Calderbank , Lara Dolecek

Erasure codes are an integral part of many distributed storage systems aimed at Big Data, since they provide high fault-tolerance for low overheads. However, traditional erasure codes are inefficient on reading stored data in degraded…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-06-27 Kyumars Sheykh Esmaili , Lluis Pamies-Juarez , Anwitaman Datta

Emerging applications of machine learning in numerous areas involve continuous gathering of and learning from streams of data. Real-time incorporation of streaming data into the learned models is essential for improved inference in these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Matthew Nokleby , Haroon Raja , Waheed U. Bajwa

This paper studies the fundamental problem of data persistency for a general family of redundancy schemes in distributed storage systems, called replicated erasure codes. Namely, we analyze two strategies of replicated erasure codes…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Roy Friedman , Rafał Kapelko , Karol Marchwicki

Distributed data storage systems are essential to deal with the need to store massive volumes of data. In order to make such a system fault-tolerant, some form of redundancy becomes crucial, incurring various overheads - most prominently in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-12-25 Frederique Oggier , Anwitaman Datta

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

Classical erasure codes, e.g. Reed-Solomon codes, have been acknowledged as an efficient alternative to plain replication to reduce the storage overhead in reliable distributed storage systems. Yet, such codes experience high overhead…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-06-20 Anne-Marie Kermarrec , Erwan Le Merrer , Gilles Straub , Alexandre van Kempen

We examine the problem of creating an encoded distributed storage representation of a data object for a network of mobile storage nodes so as to achieve the optimal recovery delay. A source node creates a single data object and disseminates…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Derek Leong , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Tracey Ho

Spreading and storing erasure-coded data in distributed systems effectively is challenging in real settings. Practical deployments must contend with unpredictable network latencies, particularly when information dispersal is integrated into…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Rithwik Kerur , Divyakant Agrawal , Michael K. Reiter , Dahlia Malkhi

This article considers the performance of digital communication systems transmitting messages over finite-state erasure channels with memory. Information bits are protected from channel erasures using error-correcting codes; successful…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-10 Santhosh Kumar , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Henry D. Pfister

Training a machine learning model is both compute and data-intensive. Most of the model training is performed on high performance compute nodes and the training data is stored near these nodes for faster training. But there is a growing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Zhifeng Lin , Krishna Giri Narra , Mingchao Yu , Salman Avestimehr , Murali Annavaram

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

Data centres that use consumer-grade disks drives and distributed peer-to-peer systems are unreliable environments to archive data without enough redundancy. Most redundancy schemes are not completely effective for providing high…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Vero Estrada-Galiñanes , Ethan Miller , Pascal Felber , Jehan-François Pâris

Archiving and systematic backup of large digital data generates a quick demand for multi-peta byte scale storage systems. As drive capacities continue to grow beyond the few terabytes range to address the demands of today's cloud, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Suayb S. Arslan