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In 2013, Rashmi et al. proposed the piggybacking design framework to reduce the repair bandwidth of $(n,k;l)$ MDS array codes with small sub-packetization $l$ and it has been studied extensively in recent years. In this work, we propose an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Ke Wang

Piggybacking is an efficient method to decrease the repair bandwidth of Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) codes or Minimum Storage Regenerating (MSR) codes. In this paper, for minimizing the repair bandwidth of parity nodes of the known MSR…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-26 Bin Yang , Xiaohu Tang , Jie Li

As a special class of array codes, $(n,k,m)$ piggybacking codes are MDS codes (i.e., any $k$ out of $n$ nodes can retrieve all data symbols) that can achieve low repair bandwidth for single-node failure with low sub-packetization $m$. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Hao Shi , Zhengyi Jiang , Zhongyi Huang , Bo Bai , Hanxu Hou

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

We present a new 'piggybacking' framework for designing distributed storage codes that are efficient in data-read and download required during node-repair. We illustrate the power of this framework by constructing classes of explicit codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-26 K. V. Rashmi , Nihar B. Shah , Kannan Ramchandran

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

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

Piggybacking codes are a special class of MDS array codes that can achieve small repair bandwidth with small sub-packetization by first creating some instances of an $(n,k)$ MDS code, such as a Reed-Solomon (RS) code, and then designing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Zhengyi Jiang , Hanxu Hou , Yunghsiang S. Han , Patrick P. C. Lee , Bo Bai , Zhongyi Huang

We present the construction of a family of erasure correcting codes for distributed storage that achieve low repair bandwidth and complexity at the expense of a lower fault tolerance. The construction is based on two classes of codes, where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Siddhartha Kumar , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Iryna Andriyanova , Fredrik Brännström , Eirik Rosnes

This paper generalizes the piggybacking constructions for distributed storage systems by considering various protected instances and piggybacked instances. Analysis demonstrates that the proportion of protected instances determines the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Shuai Yuan , Qin Huang , Zulin Wang

Given the scale of today's distributed storage systems, the failure of an individual node is a common phenomenon. Various metrics have been proposed to measure the efficacy of the repair of a failed node, such as the amount of data download…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-21 Gaurav Kumar Agarwal , Birenjith Sasidharan , P. Vijay Kumar

This paper presents a novel construction of $(n,k,d=n-1)$ access-optimal regenerating codes for an arbitrary sub-packetization level $\alpha$ for exact repair of any systematic node. We refer to these codes as general sub-packetized because…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Katina Kralevska , Danilo Gligoroski , Harald Øverby

There are multiple performance metrics in the design of coding schemes for distributed storage systems. The first metric is called repair bandwidth, which measures the network resources required during the repair process. Another critical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Minhan Gao , Kenneth Shum

In this paper, we discuss codes for distributed storage systems with hierarchical repair properties. Specifically, we devote attention to the repair problem of the rack-aware storage model with locality, aiming to enhance the system's…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Yumeng Yang , Han Cai , Xiaohu Tang

This paper addresses the problem of constructing MDS codes that enable exact repair of each code block with small repair bandwidth, which refers to the total amount of information flow from the remaining code blocks during the repair…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Ankit Singh Rawat , Itzhak Tamo , Venkatesan Guruswami , Klim Efremenko

Reed-Solomon (RS) codes are widely used in distributed storage systems. In this paper, we study the repair bandwidth and sub-packetization size of RS codes. The repair bandwidth is defined as the amount of transmitted information from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Weiqi Li , Zhiying Wang , Hamid Jafarkhani

The reliability of erasure-coded distributed storage systems, as measured by the mean time to data loss (MTTDL), depends on the repair bandwidth of the code. Repair-efficient codes provide reliability values several orders of magnitude…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Vaneet Aggarwal , Chao Tian , Vinay A. Vaishampayan , Yih-Farn R. Chen

We consider the rack-aware storage system where \(n\) nodes are organized in \(\bar{n}\) racks each containing \(u\) nodes, and any \(k\) nodes can retrieve the stored file. Moreover, any single node erasure can be recovered by downloading…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Zhifang Zhang , Liyang Zhou

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

Distributed storage systems need to store data redundantly in order to provide some fault-tolerance and guarantee system reliability. Different coding techniques have been proposed to provide the required redundancy more efficiently than…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Lluis Pamies-Juarez , Henk D. L. Hollmann , Frédérique Oggier
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