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In a distributed storage system based on erasure coding, an important problem is the \emph{repair problem}: If a node storing a coded piece fails, in order to maintain the same level of reliability, we need to create a new encoded piece and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yunnan Wu

MDS codes are erasure-correcting codes that can correct the maximum number of erasures for a given number of redundancy or parity symbols. If an MDS code has $r$ parities and no more than $r$ erasures occur, then by transmitting all the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-25 Zhiying Wang , Itzhak Tamo , Jehoshua Bruck

In this paper, a new repair scheme for a modified construction of MDS codes is studied. The obtained repair scheme has optimal bandwidth for multiple failed nodes under the cooperative repair model. In addition, the repair scheme has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Xing Lin , Han Cai , Xiaohu Tang

Cooperative MSR codes are a kind of storage codes which enable optimal-bandwidth repair of any $h\geq2$ node erasures in a cooperative way, while retaining the minimum storage as an $[n,k]$ MDS code. Each code coordinate (node) is assumed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Yaqian Zhang , Jingke Xu

Fast and efficient failure recovery is a new challenge for cloud storage systems with a large number of storage nodes. A pivotal recovery metric upon the failure of a storage node is repair bandwidth cost which refers to the amount of data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Mahdi Hajiaghayi , Hamid Jafarkhani

Maximum distance separable (MDS) codes facilitate the achievement of elevated levels of fault tolerance in storage systems while incurring minimal redundancy overhead. Reed-Solomon (RS) codes are typical MDS codes with the sub-packetization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Hao Shi , Zhengyi Jiang , Zhongyi Huang , Bo Bai , Gong Zhang , Hanxu Hou

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

In large-scale distributed storage systems, erasure codes are used to achieve fault tolerance in the face of node failures. Tuning code parameters to observed failure rates has been shown to significantly reduce storage cost. Such tuning of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Francisco Maturana , V. S. Chaitanya Mukka , K. V. Rashmi

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

MDS 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 $r$ node erasures by accessing all the remaining information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-04 Zhiying Wang , Itzhak Tamo , Jehoshua Bruck

It is well known that an (n,k) code can be used to store 'k' units of information in 'n' unit-capacity disks of a distributed data storage system. If the code used is maximum distance separable (MDS), then the system can tolerate any (n-k)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-06-08 Viveck R. Cadambe , Cheng Huang , Syed A. Jafar , Jin Li

Minimum storage regenerating (MSR) codes are a class of maximum distance separable (MDS) array codes capable of repairing any single failed node by downloading the minimum amount of information from each of the helper nodes. However, MSR…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Vinayak Ramkumar , Netanel Raviv , Itzhak Tamo

Erasure codes have become an integral part of distributed storage systems as a tool for providing data reliability and durability under the constant threat of device failures. In such systems, an $[n, k]$ code over a finite field…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Francisco Maturana , K. V. Rashmi

Distributed storage codes have important applications in the design of modern storage systems. In a distributed storage system, every storage node has a probability to fail and once an individual storage node fails, it must be reconstructed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-27 Chong Shangguan , Gennian Ge

This paper describes a non-homogeneous distributed storage systems (DSS), where there is one super node which has a larger storage size and higher reliability and availability than the other storage nodes. We propose three distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-13 Vo Tam Van , Chau Yuen , Jing Li

Recent advances in erasure coding for distributed storage systems have demonstrated that adapting redundancy to varying disk failure rates can lead to substantial storage savings. Such adaptation requires code conversion, wherein data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Shubhransh Singhvi , Saransh Chopra , K. V. Rashmi

In this paper, we consider the update bandwidth in distributed storage systems~(DSSs). The update bandwidth, which measures the transmission efficiency of the update process in DSSs, is defined as the total amount of data symbols…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Zhengrui Li , Sian-Jheng Lin , Po-Ning Chen , Yunghsiang S. Han , Hanxu Hou

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

EVENODD+ codes are binary maximum distance separable (MDS) array codes for correcting double disk failures in RAID-6 with asymptotically optimal encoding/decoding/update complexities. However, the number of bits stored in each disk of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Panyu Zhu

In large-scale distributed storage systems, erasure coding is employed to ensure reliability against disk failures. Recent work by Kadekodi et al. demonstrates that adapting code parameters to varying disk failure rates can lead to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Vinayak Ramkumar , Xiangliang Kong , G. Yeswanth Sai , Myna Vajha , M. Nikhil Krishnan