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In this work, we consider a novel distributed data storage/caching scenario in a cellular setting where multiple nodes may fail/depart at the same time. In order to maintain the target reliability, we allow cooperative regeneration of lost…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Suayb S. Arslan , Massoud Pourmandi , Elif Haytaoglu

We consider the data shuffling problem in a distributed learning system, in which a master node is connected to a set of worker nodes, via a shared link, in order to communicate a set of files to the worker nodes. The master node has access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Adel Elmahdy , Soheil Mohajer

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

In a distributed storage system, the storage costs of different storage nodes, in general, can be different. How to store a file in a given set of storage nodes so as to minimize the total storage cost is investigated. By analyzing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-07-29 Quan Yu , Kenneth W. Shum , Chi Wan Sung

A quantum message is encoded into $N$ storage nodes (quantum systems $Q_1\dots Q_N$) with assistance from $N_B$ maximally entangled bi-partite quantum systems $A_1B_1, \dots, A_{N_B}B_{N_B}$, that are prepared in advance such that $B_1\dots…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Hua Sun , Syed A. Jafar

In this paper, we study distributed storage problems over unidirectional ring networks. A lower bound on the reconstructing bandwidth to recover total original data for each user is proposed, and it is achievable for arbitrary parameters.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-22 Jiyong Lu , Xuan Guang , Fang-Wei Fu

This paper investigates the use of redundancy and self repairing against node failures in distributed storage systems, using various strategies. In replication method, access to one replication node is sufficient to reconstruct a lost node,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-10-03 Abbas Kiani , Soroush Akhlaghi

In a distributed storage system, recovering from multiple failures is a critical and frequent task that is crucial for maintaining the system's reliability and fault-tolerance. In this work, we focus on the problem of repairing multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Marwen Zorgui , Zhiying Wang

Streaming codes are packet-level codes that recover dropped packets within a strict decoding-delay constraint. We study streaming codes over a sliding-window (SW) channel model which admits only those erasure patterns which allow either a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Shobhit Bhatnagar , Biswadip Chakraborty , P. Vijay Kumar

We consider the problem of designing codes for distributed storage that protect user data against eavesdroppers that can gain access to network links as well as individual nodes. Our goal is to achieve weak security (also known as block…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Swanand Kadhe , Alex Sprintson

With gradient coding, a user node can efficiently aggregate gradients from server nodes processing local datasets, achieving low communication costs and maintaining resilience against straggling servers. This paper considers a secure…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Yang Zhou , Wenbo Huang , Kai Wan , Robert Caiming Qiu

The minimum storage rack-aware regenerating (MSRR) code is a variation of regenerating codes that achieves the optimal repair bandwidth for a single node failure in the rack-aware model. The authors in~\cite{Chen-Barg2019}…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Jiaojiao Wang , Dabin Zheng , Shenghua Li

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

MDS array codes are widely used in storage systems to protect data against erasures. We address the \emph{rebuilding ratio} problem, namely, in the case of erasures, what is the fraction of the remaining information that needs to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Itzhak Tamo , Zhiying Wang , Jehoshua Bruck

Motivated by distributed storage applications, we investigate the degree to which capacity achieving encodings can be efficiently updated when a single information bit changes, and the degree to which such encodings can be efficiently…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-08 Arya Mazumdar , Venkat Chandar , Gregory W. Wornell

In cloud computing, storage area networks, remote backup storage, and similar settings, stored data is modified with updates from new versions. Representing information and modifying the representation are both expensive. Therefore it is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-05-11 Lav R. Varshney , Julius Kusuma , Vivek K Goyal

Recent developments in storage -- especially in the area of resistive random access memory (ReRAM) -- are attempting to scale the storage density by regarding the information data as two-dimensional (2D), instead of one-dimensional (1D).…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Viet Hai Le , Thanh Phong Pham , Tuan Thanh Nguyen , Kui Cai , Kees A. Schouhamer Immink

Fractional repetition (FR) codes are a class of repair efficient erasure codes that can recover a failed storage node with both optimal repair bandwidth and complexity. In this paper, we study the minimum distance of FR codes, which is the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Bing Zhu , Kenneth W. Shum , Weiping Wang , Jianxin Wang

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

In applications of distributed storage systems to distributed computing and implementation of key- value stores, the following property, usually referred to as consistency in computer science and engineering, is an important requirement: as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-20 Zhiying Wang , Viveck R. Cadambe