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In this work, we study a recently proposed direct shaping code for flash memory. This rate-1 code is designed to reduce the wear for SLC (one bit per cell) flash by minimizing the average fraction of programmed cells when storing structured…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Yi Liu , Paul H. Siegel

Accessing the data in the failed disk (degraded read) with low latency is crucial for an erasure-coded storage system. In this work, the maximum distance separable (MDS) array code with the property of degraded-read friendly (DRF) is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Ting-Yi Wu , Yunghsiang S. Han , Zhengrui Li , Bo Bai , Gong Zhang , Liang Chen , Xiang Wu

We propose a novel ray reordering technique to accelerate the ray tracing process by encoding and sorting rays prior to traversal. Instead of spatial coordinates, our method encodes rays according to the cuts of the hierarchical…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-07-24 WeiLai Xiang , FengQi Liu , Dan Li , ZhaoNan Tan , PengZhan Xu , MeiZhi Liu , QiLong Kou

Fractional repetition (FR) codes are a family of repair-efficient storage codes that provide exact and uncoded node repair at the minimum bandwidth regenerating point. The advantageous repair properties are achieved by a tailor-made…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Bing Zhu , Hui Li , Kenneth W. Shum , Shuo-Yen Robert Li

Network coding enhances performance in network communications and distributed storage by increasing throughput and robustness while reducing latency. Batched Sparse (BATS) codes are a class of capacity-achieving network codes, but their…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Jiaxin Qing , Philip H. W. Leong , Kin Hong Lee , Raymond W. Yeung

Cache-aided coded multicast leverages side information at wireless edge caches to efficiently serve multiple groupcast demands via common multicast transmissions, leading to load reductions that are proportional to the aggregate cache size.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Parisa Hassanzadeh , Antonia Tulino , Jaime Llorca , Elza Erkip

Spatially-coupled (SC) codes, known for their threshold saturation phenomenon and low-latency windowed decoding algorithms, are ideal for streaming applications. They also find application in various data storage systems because of their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Siyi Yang , Ahmed Hareedy , Shyam Venkatasubramanian , Robert Calderbank , Lara Dolecek

The centralized coded caching scheme is a technique proposed by Maddah-Ali and Niesen as a solution to reduce the network burden in peak times in a wireless system. Later Yan et al. reformulated the problem as designing a corresponding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Chong Shangguan , Yiwei Zhang , Gennian Ge

Cache-aided coded multicast leverages side information at wireless edge caches to efficiently serve multiple unicast demands via common multicast transmissions, leading to load reductions that are proportional to the aggregate cache size.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Parisa Hassanzadeh , Antonia M. Tulino , Jaime Llorca , Elza Erkip

Coded distributed computing (CDC), proposed by Li \emph{et al.}, offers significant potential for reducing the communication load in MapReduce computing systems. In cascaded CDC with $K$ nodes, $N$ input files, and $Q$ output functions,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Mingming Zhang , Youlong Wu , Minquan Cheng , Dianhua Wu

This paper studies the fundamental limits of the shared-link coded caching problem with correlated files, where a server with a library of $N$ files communicates with $K$ users who can locally cache $M$ files. Given an integer $r \in [N]$,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Kai Wan , Daniela Tuninetti , Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire

Quad-level cell (QLC) flash offers significant benefits in cost and capacity, but its limited reliability leads to frequent read retries, which severely degrade read performance. A common strategy in high-density flash storage is to program…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Yanyun Wang , Dingcui Yu , Yina Lv , Yunpeng Song , Yumiao Zhao , Liang Shi

In a modern distributed storage system, storage nodes are organized in racks, and the cross-rack communication dominates the system bandwidth. In We study the rack-aware storage system where all storage nodes are organized in racks and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Liyang Zhou , Zhifang Zhang

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

DNA synthesis is considered as one of the most expensive components in current DNA storage systems. In this paper, focusing on a common synthesis machine, which generates multiple DNA strands in parallel following a fixed supersequence,we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Yajuan Liu , Tolga M. Duman

We propose a privacy-preserving federated learning (FL) scheme that is resilient against straggling devices. An adaptive scenario is suggested where the slower devices share their data with the faster ones and do not participate in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Marvin Xhemrishi , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Eirik Rosnes , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

Modern distributed storage systems often use erasure codes to protect against disk and node failures to increase reliability, while trying to meet the latency requirements of the applications and clients. Storage systems may have caches at…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-07-24 Vaneet Aggarwal , Yih-Farn R. Chen , Tian Lan , Yu Xiang

Distributed storage systems must handle both data heterogeneity, arising from non-uniform access demands, and device heterogeneity, caused by time-varying node reliability. In this paper, we study convertible codes, which enable the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Anina Gruica , Benjamin Jany , Stanislav Kruglik

Composite DNA is a recent novel method to increase the information capacity of DNA-based data storage above the theoretical limit of 2 bits/symbol. In this method, every composite symbol does not store a single DNA nucleotide but a mixture…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Tuan Thanh Nguyen , Chen Wang , Kui Cai , Yiwei Zhang , Zohar Yakhini

Practical storage systems often adopt erasure codes to tolerate device failures and sector failures, both of which are prevalent in the field. However, traditional erasure codes employ device-level redundancy to protect against sector…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-24 Mingqiang Li , Patrick P. C. Lee