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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

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

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

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

In this paper, we show that coding can be used in storage area networks (SANs) to improve various quality of service metrics under normal SAN operating conditions, without requiring additional storage space. For our analysis, we develop a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-30 Ulric J. Ferner , Tong Wang , Muriel Médard , Emina Soljanin

Coded caching technique is an efficient approach to reduce the transmission load in networks and has been studied in heterogeneous network settings in recent years. In this paper, we consider a new widespread caching system called…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Minquan Cheng , Jinwei Xu , Mingming Zhang , Youlong Wu

The service rate region (SRR) has emerged as a critical performance metric for distributed systems that store data redundantly. It measures the system's ability to serve multiple users concurrently. Mathematically, the SRR is a polytope in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Hoang Ly , Emina Soljanin

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

In this paper, we study the problem of reducing the delay of downloading data from cloud storage systems by leveraging multiple parallel threads, assuming that the data has been encoded and stored in the clouds using fixed rate forward…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Shengbo Chen , Yin Sun , Ulas C. Kozat , Longbo Huang , Prasun Sinha , Guanfeng Liang , Xin Liu , Ness B. Shroff

Designing a rate limiter that is simultaneously accurate, available, and scalable presents a fundamental challenge in distributed systems, primarily due to the trade-offs between algorithmic precision, availability, consistency, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Bo Guan

Cloud computing facilitates the access of applications and data from any location by a distributed storage system. Erasure codes offer better data replication technique with reduced storage costs for more reliability. This paper considers…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Srujan Teja Thomdapu , Ketan Rajawat

The increase in data storage and power consumption at data-centers has made it imperative to design energy efficient Distributed Storage Systems (DSS). The energy efficiency of DSS is strongly influenced not only by the volume of data,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-05-25 Akshay Kumar , Ravi Tandon , T. Charles Clancy

Peer-to-peer distributed storage systems provide reliable access to data through redundancy spread over nodes across the Internet. A key goal is to minimize the amount of bandwidth used to maintain that redundancy. Storing a file using an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Alexandros G. Dimakis , P. Brighten Godfrey , Martin J. Wainwright , Kannan Ramchandran

This paper presents a novel achievable scheme for coded caching systems with $N$ files and $K$ users, specifically when $N \leq K$. This new scheme employs linear coding both during the placement phase - where cache contents are linear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Yinbin Ma , Daniela Tuninetti

Today's data centers have an abundance of computing resources, hosting server clusters consisting of as many as tens or hundreds of thousands of machines. To execute a complex computing task over a data center, it is natural to distribute…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-24 Qian Yu , Songze Li , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , A. Salman Avestimehr

We study the Service Rate Region of Reed-Muller codes in the context of distributed storage systems. The service rate region is a convex polytope comprising all achievable data access request rates under a given coding scheme. It represents…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Hoang Ly , Emina Soljanin , V. Lalitha

Caching at the wireless edge nodes is a promising way to boost the spatial and spectral efficiency, for the sake of alleviating networks from content-related traffic. Coded caching originally introduced by Maddah-Ali and Niesen…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Kai Wan , Minquan Cheng , Mari Kobayashi , Giuseppe Caire

We investigate the properties of a family of polytopes that naturally arise in connection with a problem in distributed data storage, namely service rate region polytopes. The service rate region of a distributed coded system describes the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-06 Gianira N. Alfarano , Altan B. Kilic , Alberto Ravagnani , Emina Soljanin

We consider a MapReduce-type task running in a distributed computing model which consists of ${K}$ edge computing nodes distributed across the edge of the network and a Master node that assists the edge nodes to compute output functions.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Haoning Chen , Youlong Wu

Erasure coding techniques are getting integrated in networked distributed storage systems as a way to provide fault-tolerance at the cost of less storage overhead than traditional replication. Redundancy is maintained over time through…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-06-12 Lluis Pamies-Juarez , Frédérique Oggier , Anwitaman Datta