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Recent advances in erasure coding for distributed storage systems have demonstrated that adapting redundancy to varying disk failure rates can lead to substantial storage savings. Such adaptation requires code conversion, wherein data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Shubhransh Singhvi , Saransh Chopra , K. V. Rashmi

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

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

Maximum-distance separable (MDS) array codes with high rate and an optimal repair property were introduced recently. These codes could be applied in distributed storage systems, where they minimize the communication and disk access required…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-19 Eyal En Gad , Robert Mateescu , Filip Blagojevic , Cyril Guyot , Zvonimir Bandic

This work deals with partial MDS (PMDS) codes, a special class of locally repairable codes, used for distributed storage system. We first show that a known construction of these codes, using Gabidulin codes, can be extended to use any…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-19 Alessandro Neri , Anna-Lena Horlemann-Trautmann

Maximum distance separable convolutional codes are the codes that present best performance in error correction among all convolutional codes with certain rate and degree. In this paper, we show that taking the constant matrix coefficients…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Julia Lieb , Raquel Pinto

A linear code with parameters $[n,k,n-k]$ is said to be almost maximum distance separable (AMDS for short). An AMDS code whose dual is also AMDS is referred to as an near maximum distance separable (NMDS for short) code. NMDS codes have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Xiaoru Li , Ziling Heng

We study linear codes that maximize minimum distance subject to arbitrary support constraints on the parity-check matrix. Such constraints arise naturally in the design of LDPC codes, locally repairable codes, and hardware-constrained…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Barron Han , Hikmet Yildiz , Babak Hassibi

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

A linear code with parameters $[n, k, n-k+1]$ is called a maximum distance separable (MDS for short) code. A linear code with parameters $[n, k, n-k]$ is said to be almost maximum distance separable (AMDS for short). A linear code is said…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Zhonghua Sun , Cunsheng Ding

A closed form formula of the partition weight enumerator of maximum distance separable (MDS) codes is derived for an arbitrary number of partitions. Using this result, some properties of MDS codes are discussed. The results are extended for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Mostafa El-Khamy , Robert J. McEliece

Maximum-distance-separable (MDS) codes are a class of erasure codes that are widely adopted to enhance the reliability of distributed storage systems (DSS). In (n, k) MDS coded DSS, the original data are stored into n distributed nodes in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-16 Sheng Guan , Haibin Kan , Xin Wang

Symbol-pair code is a new coding framework which is proposed to correct errors in the symbol-pair read channel. In particular, maximum distance separable (MDS) symbol-pair codes are a kind of symbol-pair codes with the best possible…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-10 Shuxing Li , Gennian Ge

An $[n,k,d]$ linear code is said to be maximum distance separable (MDS) or almost maximum distance separable (AMDS) if $d=n-k+1$ or $d=n-k$, respectively. If a code and its dual code are both AMDS, then the code is said to be near maximum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Jianbing Lu , Yue Zhou

Let $p$ be a prime and let $q$ be a power of $p$. In this paper, by using generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS for short) codes and extended GRS codes, we construct two new classes of quantum maximum-distance- separable (MDS) codes with parameters…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Weijun Fang , Fang-Wei Fu

Designing good error correcting codes whose generator matrix has a support constraint, i.e., one for which only certain entries of the generator matrix are allowed to be non-zero, has found many recent applications, including in distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Hikmet Yildiz , Babak Hassibi

We consider the problem of constructing linear Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) error-correcting codes with generator matrices that are sparsest and balanced. In this context, sparsest means that every row has the least possible number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-28 Wael Halbawi , Zihan Liu , Babak Hassibi

For high-rate linear systematic maximum distance separable (MDS) codes, most early constructions could initially optimally repair all the systematic nodes but not all the parity nodes. Fortunately, this issue was first solved by Li et al.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Jie Li , Xiaohu Tang , Camilla Hollanti

Maximum distance separable (in short, MDS), near MDS (in short, NMDS), and self-orthogonal codes play a pivotal role in algebraic coding theory, particularly in applications such as quantum communications and secret sharing scheme.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Zhonghao Liang , Chenlu Jia , Dongmei Huang , Qunying Liao , Chunming Tang

MDS (maximum distance separable) array codes are widely used in storage systems due to their computationally efficient encoding and decoding procedures. An MDS code with r redundancy nodes can correct any r erasures by accessing (reading)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-07-11 Zhiying Wang , Itzhak Tamo , Jehoshua Bruck