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This paper considers a distributed storage system, where multiple storage nodes can be reconstructed simultaneously at a centralized location. This centralized multi-node repair (CMR) model is a generalization of regenerating codes that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-16 Ankit Singh Rawat , O. Ozan Koyluoglu , Sriram Vishwanath

In a distributed storage systems (DSS) with $k$ systematic nodes, robustness against node failure is commonly provided by storing redundancy in a number of other nodes and performing repair mechanism to reproduce the content of the failed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-01 Kaveh Mahdaviani , Soheil Mohajer , Ashish Khisti

This paper studies the problem of repairing secret sharing schemes, i.e., schemes that encode a message into $n$ shares, assigned to $n$ nodes, so that any $n-r$ nodes can decode the message but any colluding $z$ nodes cannot infer any…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-05 Wentao Huang , Jehoshua Bruck

Abundant high-rate (n, k) minimum storage regenerating (MSR) codes have been reported in the literature. However, most of them require contacting all the surviving nodes during a node repair process, resulting in a repair degree of d=n-1.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Jie Li , Yi Liu , Xiaohu Tang , Yunghsiang S. Han , Bo Bai , Gong Zhang

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

Erasure-correcting codes, that support local repair of codeword symbols, have attracted substantial attention recently for their application in distributed storage systems. This paper investigates a generalization of the usual locally…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-28 Ankit Singh Rawat , Arya Mazumdar , Sriram Vishwanath

Maximum distance separable (MDS) codes are widely used in distributed storage systems as they provide optimal fault tolerance for a given amount of storage overhead. The seminal work of Dimakis~\emph{et al.} first established a lower bound…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Zihao Zhang , Guodong Li , Sihuang Hu

We address the multi-node failure repair challenges for MDS array codes. Presently, two primary models are employed for multi-node repairs: the centralized model where all failed nodes are restored in a singular data center, and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Zihao Zhang , Guodong Li , Sihuang Hu

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

Cooperative MSR codes are a kind of storage codes which enable optimal-bandwidth repair of any $h\geq2$ node erasures in a cooperative way, while retaining the minimum storage as an $[n,k]$ MDS code. Each code coordinate (node) is assumed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Yaqian Zhang , Jingke Xu

One of the design objectives in distributed storage system is the minimization of the data traffic during the repair of failed storage nodes. By repairing multiple failures simultaneously and cooperatively, further reduction of repair…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Kenneth W. Shum , Yuchong Hu

We revisit zigzag array codes, a family of MDS codes known for achieving optimal access and optimal rebuilding ratio in single-node repair. In this work, we endow zigzag codes with two new properties: small field size and low skip cost.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Wenqin Zhang , Han Mao Kiah , Son Hoang Dau

In this paper, we propose a class of threshold secret sharing schemes with repairing function between shares without the help of the dealer, that we called repairable threshold secret sharing schemes. Specifically, if a share fails, such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-02-05 Xuan Guang , Jiyong Lu , Fang-Wei Fu

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

Erasure correcting codes are widely used to ensure data persistence in distributed storage systems. This paper addresses the simultaneous repair of multiple failures in such codes. We go beyond existing work (i.e., regenerating codes by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-18 Anne-Marie Kermarrec , Gilles Straub , Nicolas Le Scouarnec

We present the construction of a family of erasure correcting codes for distributed storage that achieve low repair bandwidth and complexity at the expense of a lower fault tolerance. The construction is based on two classes of codes, where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Siddhartha Kumar , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Iryna Andriyanova , Fredrik Brännström , Eirik Rosnes

Reed-Solomon codes have found many applications in practical storage systems, but were until recently considered unsuitable for distributed storage applications due to the widely-held belief that they have poor repair bandwidth. The work of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Hoang Dau , Olgica Milenkovic

The paper is devoted to the problem of erasure coding in distributed storage. We consider a model of storage that assumes that nodes are organized into equally sized groups, called racks, that within each group the nodes can communicate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Zitan Chen , Alexander Barg

We study the problem of centralized exact repair of multiple failures in distributed storage. We describe constructions that achieve a new set of interior points under exact repair. The constructions build upon the layered code construction…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Marwen Zorgui , Zhiying Wang

Decoding and repair schemes are proposed for shift-exclusive-or (shift-XOR) product-matrix (PM) regenerating codes, which outperform the existing schemes in terms of both communication and computation costs. In particular, for the shift-XOR…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Ximing Fu , Shenghao Yang , Zhiqing Xiao