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As the size of data storing arrays of disks grows, it becomes vital to protect data against double disk failures. A popular method of protection is via the Reed-Solomon (RS) code with two parity words. In the present paper we construct…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-03-30 R. Jackson , D. Rumynin , O. Zaboronski

In a distributed storage system based on erasure coding, an important problem is the \emph{repair problem}: If a node storing a coded piece fails, in order to maintain the same level of reliability, we need to create a new encoded piece and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yunnan Wu

It is well known that an (n,k) code can be used to store 'k' units of information in 'n' unit-capacity disks of a distributed data storage system. If the code used is maximum distance separable (MDS), then the system can tolerate any (n-k)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-06-08 Viveck R. Cadambe , Cheng Huang , Syed A. Jafar , Jin 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

This paper investigates the use of redundancy and self repairing against node failures in distributed storage systems, using various strategies. In replication method, access to one replication node is sufficient to reconstruct a lost node,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-10-03 Abbas Kiani , Soroush Akhlaghi

Based on the extended binary image of non-binary LDPC codes, we propose a method for generating extra redundant bits, such as to decreases the coding rate of a mother code. The proposed method allows for using the same decoder, regardless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-03-15 Lam Pham Sy , Valentin Savin , David Declercq

MDS codes are erasure-correcting codes that can correct the maximum number of erasures for a given number of redundancy or parity symbols. If an MDS code has $r$ parities and no more than $r$ erasures occur, then by transmitting all the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-25 Zhiying Wang , Itzhak Tamo , Jehoshua Bruck

Maximum distance separable (MDS) codes facilitate the achievement of elevated levels of fault tolerance in storage systems while incurring minimal redundancy overhead. Reed-Solomon (RS) codes are typical MDS codes with the sub-packetization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Hao Shi , Zhengyi Jiang , Zhongyi Huang , Bo Bai , Gong Zhang , Hanxu Hou

Linear complementary dual (LCD) maximum distance separable (MDS) codes are constructed to given specifications. For given $n$ and $r<n$, with $n$ or $r$ (or both) odd, MDS LCD $(n,r)$ codes are constructed over finite fields whose…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Ted Hurley

In this paper, we propose locally repairable codes (LRCs) with optimal minimum distance for distributed storage systems (DSS). A two-layer encoding structure is employed to ensure data reconstruction and the designated repair locality. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-15 Hongmei Xie , Zhiyuan Yan

Erasure codes are an efficient means of storing data across a network in comparison to data replication, as they tend to reduce the amount of data stored in the network and offer increased resilience in the presence of node failures. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 K. V. Rashmi , Nihar B. Shah , P. Vijay Kumar

Generalized Reed-Solomon (RS) codes are a common choice for efficient, reliable error correction in memory and communications systems. These codes add $2t$ extra parity symbols to a block of memory, and can efficiently and reliably correct…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Mike Hamburg , Eric Linstadt , Danny Moore , Thomas Vogelsang

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

$\epsilon$-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

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

Maximum distance separable (MDS) array codes are widely employed in modern distributed storage systems to provide high data reliability with small storage overhead. Compared with the data access latency of the entire file, the data access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Hao Shi , Zhengyi Jiang , Zhongyi Huang , Linqi Song , Hanxu Hou

This short note revisits the problem of designing secure minimum storage regenerating (MSR) codes for distributed storage systems. A secure MSR code ensures that a distributed storage system does not reveal the stored information to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-08 Ankit Singh Rawat

MDS codes have diverse practical applications in communication systems, data storage, and quantum codes due to their algebraic properties and optimal error-correcting capability. In this paper, we focus on a class of linear codes and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Yansheng Wu , Ziling Heng , Chengju Li , Cunsheng Ding

Entanglement-assisted quantum error correcting codes (EAQECCs) play a significant role in protecting quantum information from decoherence and quantum noise. Recently, constructing entanglement-assisted quantum maximum distance separable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Wan Jiang , Shixin Zhu , Xiaojing Chen

The distributed data storage systems are constructed by large number of nodes which are interconnected over a network. Each node in such peer-to-peer network is vulnerable and at a potential risk for attack. The attackers can eavesdrop the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-08 Ninoslav Marina , Aneta Velkoska , Natasa Paunkoska