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Due to its longevity and enormous information density, DNA is an attractive medium for archival storage. In this work, we study the fundamental limits and tradeoffs of DNA-based storage systems under a simple model, motivated by current…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Reinhard Heckel , Ilan Shomorony , Kannan Ramchandran , David N. C. Tse

Motivated by average-case trace reconstruction and coding for portable DNA-based storage systems, we initiate the study of \emph{coded trace reconstruction}, the design and analysis of high-rate efficiently encodable codes that can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Mahdi Cheraghchi , Ryan Gabrys , Olgica Milenkovic , João Ribeiro

In this review paper, we delve into the nascent field of molecular data storage, focusing on system implementations and code constructions. We start by providing an overview of basic concepts in synthetic and computational biology.…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Olgica Milenkovic , Chao Pan

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

We study the problem of storing a data object in a set of data nodes that fail independently with given probabilities. Our problem is a natural generalization of a homogenous storage allocation problem where all the nodes had the same…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-09 Vasileios Ntranos , Giuseppe Caire , Alexandros G. Dimakis

We examine the problem of allocating a given total storage budget in a distributed storage system for maximum reliability. A source has a single data object that is to be coded and stored over a set of storage nodes; it is allowed to store…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Derek Leong , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Tracey Ho

DNA as a data storage medium has several advantages, including far greater data density compared to electronic media. We propose that schemes for data storage in the DNA of living organisms may benefit from studying the reconstruction…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Yonatan Yehezkeally , Moshe Schwartz

We study the problem of private function retrieval (PFR) in a distributed storage system. In PFR the user wishes to retrieve a linear combination of $M$ messages stored in non-colluding $(N,K)$ MDS coded databases while revealing no…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Sarah A. Obead , Jörg Kliewer

Algebraic decoding algorithms are commonly applied for the decoding of Reed-Solomon codes. Their main advantages are low computational complexity and predictable decoding capabilities. Many algorithms can be extended for correction of both…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Christian Senger , Vladimir R. Sidorenko , Steffen Schober , Martin Bossert , Victor V. Zyablov

In network communication, the source often transmits messages at several different information rates within a session. How to deal with information transmission and network error correction simultaneously under different rates is introduced…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-04 Xuan Guang , Fang-Wei Fu , Zhen Zhang

Regenerating codes are a class of codes for distributed storage networks that provide reliability and availability of data, and also perform efficient node repair. Another important aspect of a distributed storage network is its security.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Nihar B. Shah , K. V. Rashmi , P. Vijay Kumar

This paper addresses the problem of constructing secure exact-repair regenerating codes at the MSR point for all feasible values of the parameters. The setting involves a passive eavesdropper who is allowed to observe the stored contents…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-27 V. Arvind Rameshwar , Navin Kashyap

DNA-based storage is an emerging storage technology that provides high information density and long duration. Due to the physical constraints in the reading and writing processes, error correction in DNA storage poses several interesting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Jin Sima , Netanel Raviv , Moshe Schwartz , Jehoshua Bruck

The coverage depth problem in DNA data storage is about computing the expected number of reads needed to recover all encoded strands. Given a generator matrix of a linear code, this quantity equals the expected number of randomly drawn…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Matteo Bertuzzo , Alberto Ravagnani , Eitan Yaakobi

The performance and the decoding complexity of a novel coding scheme based on the concatenation of maximum distance separable (MDS) codes and linear random fountain codes are investigated. Differently from Raptor codes (which are based on a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Francisco Lázaro , Giuliano Garrammone , Gianluigi Liva

We consider the decoding of linear and array codes from errors when we are only allowed to download a part of the codeword. More specifically, suppose that we have encoded $k$ data symbols using an $(n,k)$ code with code length $n$ and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Itzhak Tamo , Min Ye , Alexander Barg

Constructing Reed-Solomon (RS) codes that can correct insertion and deletion (ins-del) errors has been the focus of several recent studies. However, efficient decoding algorithms for such codes have received less attention and remain a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Shubhransh Singhvi

Motivated by DNA data storage, we study the expected number of coded symbols drawn from a linear code until a desired information symbol can be decoded - the random access expectation. We focus on generator matrices with a type of symmetry,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Christoph Hofmeister , Rawad Bitar , Eitan Yaakobi

Based on the fundamental results on MDS self-dual codes over finite fields constructed via generalized Reed-Solomon codes \cite{JX} and extended generalized Reed-Solomon codes \cite{Yan}, many series of MDS self-dual codes with different…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Aixian Zhang , Keqin Feng

In this paper, we consider a concatenated coding based class of DNA storage codes in which the selected molecules are constrained to be taken from an ``inner'' codebook associated with the sequencing channel. This codebook is used in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Yan Hao Ling , Jonathan Scarlett