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In distributed storage systems that use coding, the issue of minimizing the communication required to rebuild a storage node after a failure arises. We consider the problem of repairing an erased node in a distributed storage system that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-09-20 Zhiying Wang , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Jehoshua Bruck

Coded computing has emerged as a promising framework for tackling significant challenges in large-scale distributed computing, including the presence of slow, faulty, or compromised servers. In this approach, each worker node processes a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Parsa Moradi , Behrooz Tahmasebi , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali

In order to provide high data reliability, distributed storage systems disperse data with redundancy to multiple storage nodes. Regenerating codes is a new class of erasure codes to introduce redundancy for the purpose of improving the data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-18 Kenneth W. Shum , Yuchong Hu

Motivated by applications of distributed storage systems to key-value stores, the multi-version coding problem was formulated to efficiently store frequently updated data in asynchronous decentralized storage systems. Inspired by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Ramy E. Ali , Viveck R. Cadambe

We consider the problem of constructing an erasure code for storage over a network when the data sources are distributed. Specifically, we assume that there are n storage nodes with limited memory and k<n sources generating the data. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Alexandros G. Dimakis , Vinod Prabhakaran , Kannan Ramchandran

This paper aims to go beyond resilience into the study of security and local-repairability for distributed storage systems (DSS). Security and local-repairability are both important as features of an efficient storage system, and this paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ankit Singh Rawat , O. Ozan Koyluoglu , Natalia Silberstein , Sriram Vishwanath

As consumers are increasingly engaged in social networking and E-commerce activities, businesses grow to rely on Big Data analytics for intelligence, and traditional IT infrastructures continue to migrate to the cloud and edge, these trends…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Vaneet Aggarwal , Tian Lan

The explosion of the amount of data stored in cloud systems calls for more efficient paradigms for redundancy. While replication is widely used to ensure data availability, erasure correcting codes provide a much better trade-off between…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Steve Jiekak , Anne-Marie Kermarrec , Nicolas Le Scouarnec , Gilles Straub , Alexandre Van Kempen

In the context of distributed storage systems, locally repairable codes have become important. In this paper we focus on codes that allow for multi-erasure pattern decoding with low computational effort. Different optimality requirements,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Margreta Kuijper , Julia Lieb , Diego Napp

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

Considerable interest has been paid in recent literature to codes combining local and global properties for erasure correction. Applications are in cloud type of implementations, in which fast recovery of a failed storage device is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-09 Mario Blaum , Steven R. Hetzler

Modern distributed storage systems often use erasure codes to protect against disk and node failures to increase reliability, while trying to meet the latency requirements of the applications and clients. Storage systems may have caches at…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-07-24 Vaneet Aggarwal , Yih-Farn R. Chen , Tian Lan , Yu Xiang

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

Erasure codes are being increasingly used in distributed-storage systems in place of data-replication, since they provide the same level of reliability with much lower storage overhead. We consider the problem of constructing explicit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-08 Preetum Nakkiran , K. V. Rashmi , Kannan Ramchandran

Digital contents in large scale distributed storage systems may have different reliability and access delay requirements, and for this reason, erasure codes with different strengths need to be utilized to achieve the best storage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-29 Chao Tian , Tie Liu

The {\em repair locality} of a distributed storage code is the maximum number of nodes that ever needs to be contacted during the repair of a failed node. Having small repair locality is desirable, since it is proportional to the number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-21 Henk D. L. Hollmann

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

Regenerating codes allow distributed storage systems to recover from the loss of a storage node while transmitting the minimum possible amount of data across the network. We present a systematic computer search for optimal systematic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-10-14 Daniel Cullina , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Tracey Ho

Erasure codes have been widely considered a promising solution to enhance data reliability at low storage costs. However, in modern geo-distributed storage systems, erasure codes may incur high data access latency as they require data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Kaiyang Liu , Jun Peng , Jingrong Wang , Jianping Pan

We consider the design of regenerating codes for distributed storage systems that enjoy the property of local, exact and uncoded repair, i.e., (a) upon failure, a node can be regenerated by simply downloading packets from the surviving…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-27 Oktay Olmez , Aditya Ramamoorthy