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Recent studies have delved into the construction of locally repairable codes (LRCs) with optimal minimum distance from function fields. In this paper, we present several novel constructions by extending the findings of optimally designed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Yunlong Zhu , Chang-An Zhao

The reliability of erasure-coded distributed storage systems, as measured by the mean time to data loss (MTTDL), depends on the repair bandwidth of the code. Repair-efficient codes provide reliability values several orders of magnitude…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Vaneet Aggarwal , Chao Tian , Vinay A. Vaishampayan , Yih-Farn R. Chen

In this paper, we propose two new constructions of exact-repair minimum storage regenerating (exact-MSR) codes. For both constructions, the encoded symbols are obtained by treating the message vector over GF(q) as a linearized polynomial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-22 Hongmei Xie , Zhiyuan Yan

A new ensemble of structured codes is introduced. These codes are called Quasi Linear Codes (QLC). The QLC's are constructed by taking subsets of linear codes. They have a looser structure compared to linear codes and are not closed under…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-16 F. Shirani , M. Heidari , S. S. Pradhan

The design of low-density parity-check (LDPC) code ensembles optimized for a finite number of decoder iterations is investigated. Our approach employs EXIT chart analysis and differential evolution to design such ensembles for the binary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ian P. Mulholland , Enrico Paolini , Mark F. Flanagan

A linear block code with dimension $k$, length $n$, and minimum distance $d$ is called a locally repairable code (LRC) with locality $r$ if it can retrieve any coded symbol by at most $r$ other coded symbols. LRCs have been recently…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-25 Mostafa Shahabinejad , Majid Khabbazian , Masoud Ardakani

This paper considers the achievable rates and decoding complexity of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes over statistically independent parallel channels. The paper starts with the derivation of bounds on the conditional entropy of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Igal Sason , Gil Wiechman

Aiming to recover the data from several concurrent node failures, linear $r$-LRC codes with locality $r$ were extended into $(r, \delta)$-LRC codes with locality $(r, \delta)$ which can enable the local recovery of a failed node in case of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Li Xu , Zhengchun Zhou , Jun Zhang , Sihem Mesnager

Register Transfer Level(RTL) code optimization is crucial for achieving high performance and low power consumption in digital circuit design. However, traditional optimization methods often rely on manual tuning and heuristics, which can be…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Zhihao Xu , Bixin Li , Lulu Wang

A generalized low-density parity-check (GLDPC) code is a class of codes, where single parity check nodes in a conventional low-density parity-check (LDPC) code are replaced by linear codes with higher parity check constraints. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Jaewha Kim , Jae-Won Kim , Hee-Youl Kwak , Jong-Seon No

Distributed and cloud storage systems are used to reliably store large-scale data. Erasure codes have been recently proposed and used in real-world distributed and cloud storage systems such as Google File System, Microsoft Azure Storage,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Mehrtash Mehrabi , Massoud Ardakani

We introduce generalized function-correcting partition codes (GFCPCs) that simultaneously protect multiple partitions of the message space against different numbers of errors. Given partitions with respective distance requirements, a GFCPC…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Charul Rajput , Mahak , V. Lalitha

We consider the problem of designing [n; k] linear codes for distributed storage systems (DSS) that satisfy the (r, t)-Local Repair Property, where any t'(<=t) simultaneously failed nodes can be locally repaired, each with locality r. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-30 Wentu Song , Chau Yuen

We consider the problem of multiple-node repair in distributed storage systems under the cooperative model, where the repair bandwidth includes the amount of data exchanged between any two different storage nodes. Recently, explicit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Min Ye

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

Maximum distance separable (MDS) codes are widely used in distributed storage, but naively repairing a single failure in an $(n,k)$ MDS code requires downloading the full contents of $k$ surviving nodes. Minimum storage regenerating (MSR)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jing Qiu , Weijun Fang , Shu-Tao Xia , Fang-Wei Fu

Batch codes, introduced by Ishai, Kushilevitz, Ostrovsky and Sahai in [1], are methods for solving the following data storage problem: n data items are to be stored in m servers in such a way that any k of the n items can be retrieved by…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-02-25 Srimanta Bhattacharya , Sushmita Ruj , Bimal Roy

Recent years, several new types of codes were introduced to provide fault-tolerance and guarantee system reliability in distributed storage systems, among which locally repairable codes (LRCs for short) have played an important role. A…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Yuanxiao Xi , Xiangliang Kong , Gennian Ge

Erasure coding techniques are used to increase the reliability of distributed storage systems while minimizing storage overhead. Also of interest is minimization of the bandwidth required to repair the system following a node failure. In a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-10-06 K. V. Rashmi , Nihar B. Shah , P. Vijay Kumar , Kannan Ramchandran

We introduce a family of balanced locally repairable codes (BLRCs) $[n, k, d]$ for arbitrary values of $n$, $k$ and $d$. Similar to other locally repairable codes (LRCs), the presented codes are suitable for applications that require a low…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Katina Kralevska , Danilo Gligoroski , Harald Øverby