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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

This paper addresses the problem of constructing MDS codes that enable exact repair of each code block with small repair bandwidth, which refers to the total amount of information flow from the remaining code blocks during the repair…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Ankit Singh Rawat , Itzhak Tamo , Venkatesan Guruswami , Klim Efremenko

Maximum distance separable (MDS) codes are widely used in distributed storage systems as they provide optimal fault tolerance for a given amount of storage overhead. The seminal work of Dimakis~\emph{et al.} first established a lower bound…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Zihao Zhang , Guodong Li , Sihuang Hu

Convolutional codes are a class of error-correcting codes that performs very well over erasure channels with low delay requirements. In particular, Maximum Distance Profile (MDP) convolutional codes, which are defined to have optimal column…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Zita Abreu , Julia Lieb , Raquel Pinto

We propose a generic transformation that can convert any nonbinary $(n=k+r,k)$ maximum distance separable (MDS) code into another $(n,k)$ MDS code over the same field such that 1) some arbitrarily chosen $r$ nodes have the optimal repair…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Jie Li , Xiaohu Tang , Chao Tian

An $(m,n,a,b)$-tensor code consists of $m\times n$ matrices whose columns satisfy `$a$' parity checks and rows satisfy `$b$' parity checks (i.e., a tensor code is the tensor product of a column code and row code). Tensor codes are useful in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Joshua Brakensiek , Sivakanth Gopi , Visu Makam

In the literature, most of the known high-rate $(n,k)$ MDS array codes with the optimal repair property only support a single repair degree (i.e., the number of helper nodes contacted during a repair process) $d$, where $k\le d\le n-1$.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Y. Liu , J. Li , X. H. Tang

An $(n,k)$ maximum distance separable (MDS) code has optimal repair access if the minimum number of symbols accessed from $d$ surviving nodes is achieved, where $k+1\le d\le n-1$. Existing results show that the sub-packetization $\alpha$ of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Hanxu Hou , Patrick P. C. Lee , Yunghsiang S. Han

In this paper, we consider the convertible code with locally repairable property. We present an improved lower bound on access cost associated with $(r,\delta)$. Then, we provide a general construction of convertible codes with optimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Songping Ge , Han Cai , Xiaohu Tang

Distributed storage codes have important applications in the design of modern storage systems. In a distributed storage system, every storage node has a probability to fail and once an individual storage node fails, it must be reconstructed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-27 Chong Shangguan , Gennian Ge

A novel technique for construction of minimum storage regenerating (MSR) codes is presented. Based on this technique, three explicit constructions of MSR codes are given. The first two constructions provide access-optimal MSR codes, with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-29 Netanel Raviv , Natalia Silberstein , Tuvi Etzion

In network communication, the source often transmits messages at several different information rates within a session. How to deal with information transmission and network error correction simultaneously under different rates is introduced…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-04 Xuan Guang , Fang-Wei Fu , Zhen Zhang

This paper presents a construction for high-rate MDS codes that enable bandwidth-efficient repair of a single node. Such MDS codes are also referred to as the minimum storage regenerating (MSR) codes in the distributed storage literature.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-26 Ankit Singh Rawat , O. Ozan Koyluoglu , Sriram Vishwanath

Consider a binary maximum distance separable (MDS) array code composed of an $m\times (k+r)$ array of bits with $k$ information columns and $r$ parity columns, such that any $k$ out of $k+r$ columns suffice to reconstruct the $k$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Hanxu Hou , Patrick P. C. Lee

Partial maximum distance separable (PMDS) codes are a kind of erasure codes where the nodes are divided into multiple groups with each forming an MDS code with a smaller code length, thus they allow repairing a failed node with only a few…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Jie Li , Xiaohu Tang , Hanxu Hou , Yunghsiang S. Han , Bo Bai , Gong Zhang

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

In a distributed storage system based on erasure coding, an important problem is the \emph{repair problem}: If a node storing a coded piece fails, in order to maintain the same level of reliability, we need to create a new encoded piece and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yunnan Wu

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

In distributed storage systems reliability is achieved through redundancy stored at different nodes in the network. Then a data collector can reconstruct source information even though some nodes fail. To maintain reliability, an autonomous…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-26 Majid Gerami , Ming Xiao , Mikael Skoglund , Kenneth W. Shum , Dengsheng Lin

Distributed storage systems for large-scale applications typically use replication for reliability. Recently, erasure codes were used to reduce the large storage overhead, while increasing data reliability. A main limitation of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-06 Dimitris S. Papailiopoulos , Alexandros G. Dimakis