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Employing underlying geometric and algebraic structures allows for constructing bespoke codes for local recovery of erasures. We survey techniques for enriching classical codes with additional machinery, such as using lines or curves in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Kathryn Haymaker , Hiram H. López , Beth Malmskog , Gretchen L. Matthews , Fernando Piñero

Power decoding, or "decoding using virtual interleaving" is a technique for decoding Reed--Solomon codes up to the Sudan radius. Since the method's inception, it has been an open question if it is possible to use this approach to decode up…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-08 Johan Rosenkilde

In this paper, we investigate codes designed to correct two bursts of deletions, where each burst has a length of exactly $b$, where $b>1$. The previous best construction, achieved through the syndrome compression technique, had a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zuo Ye , Yubo Sun , Wenjun Yu , Gennian Ge , Ohad Elishco

It is well-known that Reed-Solomon codes and extended Reed-Solomon codes are two special classes of MDS codes with wide applications in practice. The complete weight enumerators of these codes are very important for determining the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Canze Zhu , Qunying Liao

This manuscript presents a construction method for quantum codes capable of correcting multiple deletion errors. By introducing two new alogorithms, the alternating sandwich mapping and the block error locator, the proposed method reduces…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-26 Manabu Hagiwara

In this paper, we introduce a novel explicit family of subcodes of Reed-Solomon (RS) codes that efficiently achieve list decoding capacity with a constant output list size. Our approach builds upon the idea of large linear subcodes of RS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Amit Berman , Yaron Shany , Itzhak Tamo

Define the codewords of the Tensor Reed-Muller code $\mathsf{TRM}(r_1,m_1;r_2,m_2;\dots;r_t,m_t)$ to be the evaluation vectors of all multivariate polynomials in the variables $\left\{x_{ij}\right\}_{i=1,\dots,t}^{j=1,\dots m_i}$ with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Emmanuel Abbe , Colin Sandon , Oscar Sprumont

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

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

Erasure qubits offer a promising avenue toward reducing the overhead of quantum error correction (QEC) protocols. However, they require additional operations, such as erasure checks, that may add extra noise and increase runtime of QEC…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-15 Shouzhen Gu , Yotam Vaknin , Alex Retzker , Aleksander Kubica

Reed-Solomon (RS) codes are among the most ubiquitous codes due to their good parameters as well as efficient encoding and decoding procedures. However, RS codes suffer from having a fixed length. In many applications where the length is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Fernando Hernando , Kyle Marshall , Michael E. O'Sullivan

In this paper, we discuss codes for distributed storage systems with hierarchical repair properties. Specifically, we devote attention to the repair problem of the rack-aware storage model with locality, aiming to enhance the system's…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Yumeng Yang , Han Cai , Xiaohu Tang

Optimal locally repairable codes with information locality are considered. Optimal codes are constructed, whose length is also order-optimal with respect to a new bound on the code length derived in this paper. The length of the constructed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Han Cai , Moshe Schwartz

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

This paper shows how to decode errors and erasures with Gabidulin codes in sub-quadratic time in the code length, improving previous algorithms which had at least quadratic complexity. The complexity reduction is achieved by accelerating…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-14 Sven Puchinger , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

Let $n$ be a prime power, $r$ be a prime with $r\mid n-1$, and $\varepsilon\in (0,1/2)$. Using the theory of multiplicative character sums and superelliptic curves, we construct new codes over $\mathbb F_r$ having length $n$, relative…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Giacomo Cherubini , Giacomo Micheli

SD codes are erasure codes that address the mixed failure mode of current RAID systems. Rather than dedicate entire disks to erasure coding, as done in RAID-5, RAID-6 and Reed-Solomon coding, an SD code dedicates entire disks, plus…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-07 Mario Blaum , James S. Plank

Polynomial remainder codes are a large class of codes derived from the Chinese remainder theorem that includes Reed-Solomon codes as a special case. In this paper, we revisit these codes and study them more carefully than in previous work.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-01-10 Jiun-Hung Yu , Hans-Andrea Loeliger

Two-dimensional error-correcting codes, where codewords are represented as $n \times n$ arrays over a $q$-ary alphabet, find important applications in areas such as QR codes, DNA-based storage, and racetrack memories. Among the possible…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Wenhao Liu , Zhengyi Jiang , Zhongyi Huang , Hanxu Hou

Locally recoverable codes (LRCs) with locality parameter $r$ can recover any erased code symbol by accessing $r$ other code symbols. This local recovery property is of great interest in large-scale distributed classical data storage systems…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Sandeep Sharma , Vinayak Ramkumar , Itzhak Tamo