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Minimum storage regenerating (MSR) codes, with the MDS property and the optimal repair bandwidth, are widely used in distributed storage systems (DSS) for data recovery. In this paper, we consider the construction of $(n,k,l)$ MSR codes in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Shenghua Li , Maximilien Gadouleau , Jiaojiao Wang , Dabin Zheng

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

Efficient node repair is a central requirement in distributed storage systems, particularly in high-rate erasure-coded deployments where repair traffic directly affects network overhead and recovery cost. Piggybacking codes reduce the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Hao Shi , Zhengyi Jiang , Gefeng Deng , Zhongyi Huang , Hanxu Hou

The study of regenerating codes has advanced tremendously in recent years. However, most known constructions require large field size, and hence may be hard to implement in practice. By using notions from the theory of extension fields, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-22 Netanel Raviv

A key problem in random network coding (NC) lies in the complexity and energy consumption associated with the packet decoding processes, which hinder its application in mobile environments. Controlling and hence limiting such factors has…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Attilio Fiandrotti , Valerio Bioglio , Marco Grangetto , Rossano Gaeta , Enrico Magli

The problem of exact repair of a failed node in multi-hop networked distributed storage systems is considered. Contrary to the most of the current studies which model the repair process by the direct links from surviving nodes to the new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-14 Majid Gerami , Ming Xiao

In this work, we give locally repairable regenerating code (LRRC) [1]-[3], [5], [6] constructions that can protect the file size promised by the graph analysis of the modified family helper selection (MFHS) scheme [1] at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-06 Imad Ahmad , Chih-Chun Wang

We investigate the problem of encoding data into an $(n, t)$-break-resilient code ($(n, t)$-BRC), i.e., a collections of sequences of length~$n$ from which the original data can be reconstructed even if they are adversarially broken at up…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Canran Wang , Jin Sima , Netanel Raviv

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 a distributed storage systems (DSS), regenerating codes are used to optimize bandwidth in the repair process of a failed node. To optimize other DSS parameters such as computation and disk I/O, Distributed Replication-based Simple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-28 Srijan Anil , Manish K. Gupta , T. Aaron Gulliver

A $(k+r,k,l)$ binary array code of length $k+r$, dimension $k$, and sub-packetization $l$ is composed of $l\times(k+r)$ matrices over $\mathbb{F}_2$, with every column of the matrix stored on a separate node in the distributed storage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Lan Ma , Qifu Tyler Sun , Shaoteng Liu , Liyang Zhou

With the increase of huge amounts of data in volume, velocity, and variety, the need for capacity of Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) storage systems is dramatically growing. However, the probability of disk failures in RAID…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-15 De-zhai Yuan , Xing-yi Peng , Ting Liu , Zhe Cui

Locally repairable codes (LRCs), which can recover any symbol of a codeword by reading only a small number of other symbols, have been widely used in real-world distributed storage systems, such as Microsoft Azure Storage and Ceph Storage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Wenqin Zhang , Deng Tang , Chenhao Ying , Yuan Luo

We present the construction of a new family of erasure correcting codes for distributed storage that yield low repair bandwidth and low repair complexity. The construction is based on two classes of parity symbols. The primary goal of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-28 Siddhartha Kumar , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Iryna Andriyanova , Fredrik Brännström

The $(n,k,d)$ regenerating code is a class of $(n,k)$ erasure codes with the capability to recover a lost code fragment from other $d$ existing code fragments. This paper concentrates on the design of exact regenerating codes at Minimum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-17 Sian-Jheng Lin , Wei-Ho Chung

Emerging applications in manufacturing, wireless communication, and molecular data storage require robust coding schemes that remain effective under physical distortions where codewords may be arbitrarily fragmented and partially missing.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Canran Wang , Minghui Liwang , Netanel Raviv

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, the repair problem for erasures beyond locality in locally repairable codes is explored under a practical system setting, where a rack-aware storage system consists of racks, each containing a few parity checks. This is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Han Cai , Ying Miao , Moshe Schwartz , Xiaohu Tang

Locally repairable codes (LRCs) have received significant recent attention as a method of designing data storage systems robust to server failure. Optimal LRCs offer the ideal trade-off between minimum distance and locality, a measure of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Allison Beemer , Ryan Coatney , Venkatesan Guruswami , Hiram H. López , Fernando Piñero

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