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This paper presents an experimental framework for implementing Decentralized Autonomous Database Systems (DADBS) using the Rust programming language. As traditional centralized databases face challenges in scalability, security, and…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Prakash Aryan , Radhika Khatri , Vijayakumar Balakrishnan

Distributed storage systems often introduce redundancy to increase reliability. When coding is used, the repair problem arises: if a node storing encoded information fails, in order to maintain the same level of reliability we need to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-04-27 Alexandros G. Dimakis , Kannan Ramchandran , Yunnan Wu , Changho Suh

In cloud storage systems with a large number of servers, files are typically not stored in single servers. Instead, they are split, replicated (to ensure reliability in case of server malfunction) and stored in different servers. We analyze…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Avishek Ghosh , Kannan Ramchandran

Public blockchains have spurred the growing popularity of decentralized transactions and smart contracts, but they exhibit limitations on the transaction throughput, storage, and computation. To avoid transaction gridlock, public…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Nikolay Ivanov , Qiben Yan , Qingyang Wang

This paper investigates the use of redundancy and self repairing against node failures in distributed storage systems, using various strategies. In replication method, access to one replication node is sufficient to reconstruct a lost node,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-10-03 Abbas Kiani , Soroush Akhlaghi

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

Modern software often struggles with bloat, leading to increased memory consumption and security vulnerabilities from unused code. In response, various program debloating techniques have been developed, typically utilizing test cases that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Myeongsoo Kim , Santosh Pande , Alessandro Orso

Decentralization for data storage is a challenging problem for blockchain-based solutions as the blocksize plays the key role for scalability. In addition, specific requirements of multimedia data calls for various changes in the blockchain…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Suayb S. Arslan , Turguy Goker

Distributed storage systems for large clusters typically use replication to provide reliability. Recently, erasure codes have been used to reduce the large storage overhead of three-replicated systems. Reed-Solomon codes are the standard…

Classical erasure codes, e.g. Reed-Solomon codes, have been acknowledged as an efficient alternative to plain replication to reduce the storage overhead in reliable distributed storage systems. Yet, such codes experience high overhead…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-06-20 Anne-Marie Kermarrec , Erwan Le Merrer , Gilles Straub , Alexandre van Kempen

Modern distributed storage systems often use erasure codes to protect against disk and node failures to increase reliability, while trying to meet the latency requirements of the applications and clients. Storage systems may have caches at…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-07-24 Vaneet Aggarwal , Yih-Farn R. Chen , Tian Lan , Yu Xiang

Due to individual unreliable commodity components, failures are common in large-scale distributed storage systems. Erasure codes are widely deployed in practical storage systems to provide fault tolerance with low storage overhead. However,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Liangliang Xu , Min Lyu , Zhipeng Li , Yongkun Li , Yinlong Xu

This article introduces a novel family of decentralised caching policies, applicable to wireless networks with finite storage at the edge-nodes (stations). These policies are based on the Least-Recently-Used replacement principle, and are,…

Performance · Computer Science 2016-06-22 Anastasios Giovanidis , Apostolos Avranas

In recent years, resource elasticity and cost optimization have become essential for RDBMSs. While cloud-native RDBMSs provide elastic computing resources via disaggregated computing and storage, storage costs remain a critical user…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Qingda Hu , Xinjun Yang , Feifei Li , Junru Li , Ya Lin , Yuqi Zhou , Yicong Zhu , Junwei Zhang , Rongbiao Xie , Ling Zhou , Bin Wu , Wenchao Zhou

In-memory key-value stores provide consistent low-latency access to all objects which is important for interactive large-scale applications like social media networks or online graph analytics and also opens up new application areas. But,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Kevin Beineke , Stefan Nothaas , Michael Schoettner

We introduce Orthrus, a simple and efficient dual-architecture framework that unifies the exact generation fidelity of autoregressive Large Language Models (LLMs) with the high-speed parallel token generation of diffusion models. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Chien Van Nguyen , Chaitra Hegde , Van Cuong Pham , Ryan A. Rossi , Franck Dernoncourt , Thien Huu Nguyen

Today's blockchain designs suffer from a trilemma claiming that no blockchain system can simultaneously achieve decentralization, security, and performance scalability. For current blockchain systems, as more nodes join the network, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Songze Li , Mingchao Yu , Chien-Sheng Yang , A. Salman Avestimehr , Sreeram Kannan , Pramod Viswanath

Scaling up the backup storage for an ever-increasing volume of virtual machine (VM) images is a critical issue in virtualization environments. While deduplication is known to effectively eliminate duplicates for VM image storage, it also…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-06-28 Chun-Ho Ng , Patrick P. C. Lee

We introduce a new resource-efficient scheme for fault-tolerant quantum computation known as `macroscale multiplexing' (or simply `Macromux'), that utilizes scalable postselection to significantly improve the threshold of a given…

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