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Maximum distance separable (MDS) codes are optimal error-correcting codes in the sense that they provide the maximum failure-tolerance for a given number of parity nodes. Suppose that an MDS code with $k$ information nodes and $r=n-k$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-11 Min Ye , Alexander Barg

MDS array codes are widely used in storage systems to protect data against erasures. We address the \emph{rebuilding ratio} problem, namely, in the case of erasures, what is the the fraction of the remaining information that needs to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-03-22 Itzhak Tamo , Zhiying Wang , Jehoshua Bruck

MDS array codes are widely used in storage systems to protect data against erasures. We address the \emph{rebuilding ratio} problem, namely, in the case of erasures, what is the fraction of the remaining information that needs to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Itzhak Tamo , Zhiying Wang , Jehoshua Bruck

Partial-MDS (PMDS) codes are a family of locally repairable codes, mainly used for distributed storage. They are defined to be able to correct any pattern of $s$ additional erasures, after a given number of erasures per locality group have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-05 Anna-Lena Horlemann-Trautmann , Alessandro Neri

In the modern era of large-scale computing systems, a crucial use of error correcting codes is to judiciously introduce redundancy to ensure recoverability from failure. To get the most out of every byte, practitioners and theorists have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Joshua Brakensiek , Venkatesan Guruswami

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

Belief propagation or message passing on binary erasure channels (BEC) is a low complexity decoding algorithm that allows the recovery of message symbols based on bipartite graph prunning process. Recently, array XOR codes have attracted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Suayb S. Arslan

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

The high repair cost of (n,k) Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) erasure codes has recently motivated a new class of codes, called Regenerating Codes, that optimally trade off storage cost for repair bandwidth. On one end of this spectrum of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-04-19 Changho Suh , Kannan Ramchandran

Maximum distance separable (MDS) codes are widely used in distributed storage, but naively repairing a single failure in an $(n,k)$ MDS code requires downloading the full contents of $k$ surviving nodes. Minimum storage regenerating (MSR)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jing Qiu , Weijun Fang , Shu-Tao Xia , Fang-Wei Fu

This paper proposes a novel maximum-likelihood (ML) soft-decision decoding framework for linear block codes, termed error-building decoding (EBD). The complete decoding process can be performed using only the parity-check matrix, without…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Guoda Qiu , Ling Liu , Yuejun Wei , Liping Li

In distributed storage systems that employ erasure coding, the issue of minimizing the total {\it communication} required to exactly rebuild a storage node after a failure arises. This repair bandwidth depends on the structure of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-06-09 Dimitris S. Papailiopoulos , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Viveck R. Cadambe

Minimum storage regenerating (MSR) codes are MDS codes which allow for recovery of any single erased symbol with optimal repair bandwidth, based on the smallest possible fraction of the contents downloaded from each of the other symbols.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Venkatesan Guruswami , Haotian Jiang

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

Optimal locally repairable codes with information locality are considered. Optimal codes are constructed, whose length is also order-optimal with respect to a new bound on the code length derived in this paper. The length of the constructed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Han Cai , Moshe Schwartz

$\epsilon$-Minimum Storage Regenerating ($\epsilon$-MSR) codes form a special class of Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) codes, providing mechanisms for exact regeneration of a single code block in their codewords by downloading slighly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Venkatesan Guruswami , Satyanarayana V. Lokam , Sai Vikneshwar Mani Jayaraman

Node failures are inevitable in distributed storage systems (DSS). To enable efficient repair when faced with such failures, two main techniques are known: Regenerating codes, i.e., codes that minimize the total repair bandwidth; and codes…

We propose a generic transformation that can convert any nonbinary $(n=k+r,k)$ maximum distance separable (MDS) code into another $(n,k)$ MDS code over the same field such that 1) some arbitrarily chosen $r$ nodes have the optimal repair…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Jie Li , Xiaohu Tang , Chao Tian

Twisted generalized Reed-Solomon (TGRS) codes were introduced to extend the algebraic capabilities of classical generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) codes. This extension holds the potential for constructing new non-GRS maximum distance separable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Guanghui Zhang , Liren Lin , Bocong Chen

A systematic convolutional encoder of rate $(n-1)/n$ and maximum degree $D$ generates a code of free distance at most ${\cal D} = D+2$ and, at best, a column distance profile (CDP) of $[2,3,\ldots,{\cal D}]$. A code is \emph{Maximum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Ángela Barbero , Øyvind Ytrehus