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Distributed storage systems in the presence of a wiretapper are considered. A distributed storage system (DSS) is parameterized by three parameters (n, k,d), in which a file stored across n distributed nodes, can be recovered from any k out…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ravi Tandon , SaiDhiraj Amuru , T. Charles Clancy , R. Michael Buehrer

We study exact-regenerating codes for entanglement-assisted distributed storage systems. Consider an $(n,k,d,\alpha,\beta_{\mathsf{q}},B)$ distributed system that stores a file of $B$ classical symbols across $n$ nodes with each node…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Lei Hu , Mohamed Nomeir , Alptug Aytekin , Sennur Ulukus

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

Classical erasure codes, e.g. Reed-Solomon codes, have been acknowledged as an efficient alternative to plain replication to reduce the storage overhead in reliable distributed storage systems. Yet, such codes experience high overhead…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-06-20 Anne-Marie Kermarrec , Erwan Le Merrer , Gilles Straub , Alexandre van Kempen

This paper considers a distributed storage system, where multiple storage nodes can be reconstructed simultaneously at a centralized location. This centralized multi-node repair (CMR) model is a generalization of regenerating codes that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-16 Ankit Singh Rawat , O. Ozan Koyluoglu , Sriram Vishwanath

Minimum storage regenerating codes have minimum storage of data in each node and therefore are maximal distance separable (MDS for short) codes. Thus, the number of nodes is upper bounded by $2^{\fb}$, where $\fb$ is the bits of data stored…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-06 Lingfei Jin , Yuan Luo , Chaoping Xing

Determinant codes are a class of exact-repair regenerating codes for distributed storage systems with parameters (n, k = d, d). These codes cover the entire trade-off between per-node storage and repair-bandwidth. In an earlier work of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Mehran Elyasi , Soheil Mohajer

Decoding and repair schemes are proposed for shift-exclusive-or (shift-XOR) product-matrix (PM) regenerating codes, which outperform the existing schemes in terms of both communication and computation costs. In particular, for the shift-XOR…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Ximing Fu , Shenghao Yang , Zhiqing Xiao

The issue of repairing Reed-Solomon codes currently employed in industry has been sporadically discussed in the literature. In this work we carry out a systematic study of these codes and investigate important aspects of repairing them…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Thi Xinh Dinh , Luu Y Nhi Nguyen , Lakshmi J. Mohan , Serdar Boztas , Tran Thi Luong , Son Hoang Dau

Network codes designed specifically for distributed storage systems have the potential to provide dramatically higher storage efficiency for the same availability. One main challenge in the design of such codes is the exact repair problem:…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-09-02 Dimitris S. Papailiopoulos , Jianqiang Luo , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Cheng Huang , Jin Li

MDS (maximum distance separable) array codes are widely used in storage systems due to their computationally efficient encoding and decoding procedures. An MDS code with r redundancy nodes can correct any r erasures by accessing (reading)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-07-11 Zhiying Wang , Itzhak Tamo , Jehoshua Bruck

The continuously increasing amount of digital data generated by today's society asks for better storage solutions. This survey looks at a new generation of coding techniques designed specifically for the needs of distributed networked…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-01-31 Anwitaman Datta , Frederique Oggier

The piggybacking framework for designing erasure codes for distributed storage has empirically proven to be very useful, and has been used to design codes with desirable properties, such as low repair bandwidth and complexity. However, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Reyna Hulett , Mary Wootters

Reliability is essential for storing files in many applications of distributed storage systems. To maintain reliability, when a storage node fails, a new node should be regenerated by a repair process. Most of the previous results on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-16 Majid Gerami , Ming Xiao , Jun Li , Carlo Fischione , Zihuai Lin

Maximum-distance-separable (MDS) codes are a class of erasure codes that are widely adopted to enhance the reliability of distributed storage systems (DSS). In (n, k) MDS coded DSS, the original data are stored into n distributed nodes in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-16 Sheng Guan , Haibin Kan , Xin Wang

High availability of containerized applications requires to perform robust storage of applications' state. Since basic replication techniques are extremely costly at scale, storage space requirements can be reduced by means of erasure or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-09 Francesco De Pellegrini , Rachid El Azouzi , Alonso Silva , and Olfa Hassani

Memory reclamation for lock-based data structures is typically easy. However, it is a significant challenge for lock-free data structures. Automatic techniques such as garbage collection are inefficient or use locks, and non-automatic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Trevor Brown

Coding techniques may be useful for data center data survivability as well as for reducing traffic congestion. We present a queued cross-bar network (QCN) method that can be used for traffic analysis of both replication/uncoded and coded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-24 Ulric J. Ferner , Neda Aboutorab , Parastoo Sadeghi , Muriel Medard

In this paper, we study distributed storage problems over unidirectional ring networks, whose storage nodes form a directed ring and data is transmitted along the same direction. The original data is distributed to store on these nodes.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-15 Jiyong Lu , Xuan Guang , Fang-Wei Fu

Erasure codes have emerged as an efficient technology for providing data redundancy in distributed storage systems. However, it is a challenging task to repair the failed storage nodes in erasure-coded storage systems, which requires large…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Bing Zhu , Kenneth W. Shum , Hui Li