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In the literature, all the known high-rate MDS codes with the optimal repair bandwidth possess a significantly large sub-packetization level, which may prevent the codes to be implemented in practical systems. To build MDS codes with small…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Jie Li , Yi Liu , Xiaohu Tang

Fast and efficient failure recovery is a new challenge for cloud storage systems with a large number of storage nodes. A pivotal recovery metric upon the failure of a storage node is repair bandwidth cost which refers to the amount of data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Mahdi Hajiaghayi , Hamid Jafarkhani

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

We construct maximally recoverable codes (corresponding to partial MDS codes) which are based on linearized Reed-Solomon codes. The new codes have a smaller field size requirement compared with known constructions. For certain asymptotic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Han Cai , Ying Miao , Moshe Schwartz , Xiaohu Tang

Maximum-distance separable (MDS) convolutional codes form an optimal family of convolutional codes, the study of which is of great importance. There are very few general algebraic constructions of MDS convolutional codes. In this paper, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-24 Chin Hei Chan , Maosheng Xiong

Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) codes with a sparse and balanced generator matrix are appealing in distributed storage systems for balancing and minimizing the computational load. Such codes have been constructed via Reed-Solomon codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Tingting Chen , Xiande Zhang

Array codes have been widely employed in storage systems, such as Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID). The row-diagonal parity (RDP) codes and EVENODD codes are two popular double-parity array codes. As the capacity of hard disks…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-12 Hanxu Hou , Yunghsiang S. Han , Kenneth W. Shum , Hui Li

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

Partial MDS (PMDS) codes are erasure codes combining local (row) correction with global additional correction of entries, while Sector-Disk (SD) codes are erasure codes that address the mixed failure mode of current RAID systems. It has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-21 Mario Blaum , James S. Plank , Moshe Schwartz , Eitan Yaakobi

Regenerating codes are a class of recently developed codes for distributed storage that, like Reed-Solomon codes, permit data recovery from any arbitrary k of n nodes. However regenerating codes possess in addition, the ability to repair a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Nihar B. Shah , K. V. Rashmi , P. Vijay Kumar , Kannan Ramchandran

Consider a binary maximum distance separable (MDS) array code composed of an $m\times (k+r)$ array of bits with $k$ information columns and $r$ parity columns, such that any $k$ out of $k+r$ columns suffice to reconstruct the $k$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Hanxu Hou , Patrick P. C. Lee

$\epsilon$-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

The explosion in the volumes of data being stored online has resulted in distributed storage systems transitioning to erasure coding based schemes. Local Reconstruction Codes (LRCs) have emerged as the codes of choice for these…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Sivakanth Gopi , Venkatesan Guruswami , Sergey Yekhanin

The Damerau-Levenshtein distance between two sequences is the minimum number of operations (deletions, insertions, substitutions, and adjacent transpositions) required to convert one sequence into another. Notwithstanding a long history of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Zuo Ye , Gennian Ge

Scientific computing workflows generate enormous distributed data that is short-lived, yet critical for job completion time. This class of data is called intermediate data. A common way to achieve high data availability is to replicate…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Zhe Zhang , Brian Bockelman , Derek Weitzel , David Swanson

In this paper, a new repair scheme for a modified construction of MDS codes is studied. The obtained repair scheme has optimal bandwidth for multiple failed nodes under the cooperative repair model. In addition, the repair scheme has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Xing Lin , Han Cai , Xiaohu Tang

A Maximum Distance Separable code over an alphabet $F$ is defined via an encoding function $C:F^k \rightarrow F^n$ that allows to retrieve a message $m \in F^k$ from the codeword $C(m)$ even after erasing any $n-k$ of its symbols. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Mira Gonen , Ishay Haviv , Michael Langberg , Alex Sprintson

The amount of digital data is rapidly growing. There is an increasing use of a wide range of computer systems, from mobile devices to large-scale data centers, and important for reliable operation of all computer systems is mitigating the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Katina Kralevska

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

The complexity of software implementations of MDS erasure codes mainly depends on the efficiency of the finite field operations implementation. In this paper, we propose a method to reduce the complexity of the finite field multiplication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Jonathan Detchart , Jérôme Lacan