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The Gilbert-Elliot (GE) channel is a commonly-accepted model for packet erasures in networks. Streaming codes are a class of packet-level erasure codes designed to provide reliable communication over the GE channel. The design of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Myna Vajha , Vinayak Ramkumar , Mayank Jhamtani , P. Vijay Kumar

Motivated by streaming applications with stringent delay constraints, we consider the design of online network coding algorithms with timely delivery guarantees. Assuming that the sender is providing the same data to multiple receivers over…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Joao Barros , Rui A. Costa , Daniele Munaretto , Joerg Widmer

In this work it is shown that locally repairable codes (LRCs) can be list-decoded efficiently beyond the Johnson radius for a large range of parameters by utilizing the local error-correction capabilities. The corresponding decoding radius…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Lukas Holzbaur , Sven Puchinger , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

This paper considers data secrecy in distributed storage systems (DSSs) using maximally recoverable locally repairable codes (MR-LRCs). Conventional MR-LRCs are in general not secure against eavesdroppers who can observe the transmitted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Tim Janz , Hedongliang Liu , Rawad Bitar , Frank R. Kschischang

Distributed storage systems provide reliable access to data through redundancy spread over individually unreliable nodes. Application scenarios include data centers, peer-to-peer storage systems, and storage in wireless networks. Storing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2008-03-06 Alexandros G. Dimakis , P. Brighten Godfrey , Yunnan Wu , Martin J. Wainwright , Kannan Ramchandran

We consider three types of application layer coding for streaming over lossy links: random linear coding, systematic random linear coding, and structured coding. The file being streamed is divided into sub-blocks (generations). Code symbols…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-06-15 Yao Li , Péter Vingelmann , Morten Videbæk Pedersen , Emina Soljanin

This paper investigates the construction of linear network codes for broadcasting a set of data packets to a number of users. The links from the source to the users are modeled as independent erasure channels. Users are allowed to inform…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-10 Chi Wan Sung , Linyu Huang , Ho Yuet Kwan , Kenneth W. Shum

Locally repairable codes (LRC) for distribute storage allow two approaches to locally repair multiple failed nodes: 1) parallel approach, by which each newcomer access a set of $r$ live nodes $(r$ is the repair locality$)$ to download data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-20 Wentu Song , Chau Yuen

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

In this work, we introduce maximally recoverable codes with locality and availability. We consider locally repairable codes (LRCs) where certain subsets of $ t $ symbols belong each to $ N $ local repair sets, which are pairwise disjoint…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Umberto Martínez-Peñas , V. Lalitha

In this paper we study the decoding capabilities of convolutional codes over the erasure channel. Of special interest will be maximum distance profile (MDP) convolutional codes. These are codes which have a maximum possible column distance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-09-01 Virtudes Tomás , Joachim Rosenthal , Roxana Smarandache

Cloud storage systems generally add redundancy in storing content files such that $K$ files are replicated or erasure coded and stored on $N > K$ nodes. In addition to providing reliability against failures, the redundant copies can be used…

Maximum distance separable (MDS) codes have the optimal trade-off between storage efficiency and fault tolerance, which are widely used in distributed storage systems. As typical non-MDS codes, simple regenerating codes (SRCs) can achieve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Zhengyi Jiang , Hao Shi , Zhongyi Huang , Bo Bai , Gong Zhang , Hanxu Hou

Partial maximum distance separable (PMDS) codes are a kind of erasure codes where the nodes are divided into multiple groups with each forming an MDS code with a smaller code length, thus they allow repairing a failed node with only a few…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Jie Li , Xiaohu Tang , Hanxu Hou , Yunghsiang S. Han , Bo Bai , Gong Zhang

Binary maximum distance separable (MDS) array codes are a special class of erasure codes for distributed storage that not only provide fault tolerance with minimum storage redundancy but also achieve low computational complexity. They are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Hanxu Hou , Yunghsiang Han , Patrick P. C. Lee , Yuchong Hu , Hui Li

This work focuses on sequential locally recoverable codes (SLRCs), a special family of locally repairable codes, capable of correcting multiple code symbol erasures, which are commonly used for distributed storage systems. First, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Akram Baghban , Marc Newman , Anna-Lena Horlemann , Mehdi Ghiyasvand

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

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 error decoding of locally repairable codes (LRC) and partial MDS (PMDS) codes through interleaved decoding. For a specific class of LRCs we investigate the success probability of interleaved decoding. For PMDS codes we show that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Lukas Holzbaur , Sven Puchinger , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

The locally repairable codes (LRCs) were introduced to correct erasures efficiently in distributed storage systems. LRCs are extensively studied recently. In this paper, we first deal with the open case remained in \cite{q} and derive an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Jun Zhang , Xin Wang , Gennian Ge