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This paper develops a new family of locally recoverable codes for distributed storage systems, Sequential Locally Recoverable Codes (SLRCs) constructed to handle multiple erasures in a sequential recovery approach. We propose a new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Akram Baghban , Mehdi Ghiyasvand

Petabyte-scale distributed storage systems are currently transitioning to erasure codes to achieve higher storage efficiency. Classical codes like Reed-Solomon are highly sub-optimal for distributed environments due to their high overhead…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-07 Itzhak Tamo , Dimitris S. Papailiopoulos , Alexandros G. Dimakis

Locally repairable codes with availability have become essential components in modern large-scale distributed cloud storage systems and numerous other applications. In this paper, we focus on the construction of locally repairable codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Junjie Huang , Chang-An Zhao

This work focuses on sequential locally recoverable codes (SLRCs), a special family of locally repairable codes, capable of correcting multiple code symbol erasures, which are commonly used for distributed storage systems. First, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Akram Baghban , Marc Newman , Anna-Lena Horlemann , Mehdi Ghiyasvand

In recent years, locally repairable codes (LRCs) have attracted considerable attention owing to their pivotal role in distributed storage systems. Since binary linear locally repairable codes can significantly reduce the complexity of both…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Hengfeng Jin , Fang-Wei Fu

A code is said to be a $r$-local locally repairable code (LRC) if each of its coordinates can be repaired by accessing at most $r$ other coordinates. When some of the $r$ coordinates are also erased, the $r$-local LRC can not accomplish the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-06 Bin Chen , Shu-Tao Xia , Jie Hao , Fang-Wei Fu

Given a topology of local parity-check constraints, a maximally recoverable code (MRC) can correct all erasure patterns that are information-theoretically correctable. In a grid-like topology, there are $a$ local constraints in every column…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-11 D. Shivakrishna , V. Arvind Rameshwar , V. Lalitha , Birenjith Sasidharan

Classical locally recoverable codes, which permit highly efficient recovery from localized errors as well as global recovery from larger errors, provide some of the most useful codes for distributed data storage in practice. In this paper,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-16 Louis Golowich , Venkatesan Guruswami

Modern large-scale distributed storage systems use erasure codes to protect against node failures with low storage overhead. In practice, the failure rate and other factors of storage devices in the system may vary significantly over time,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Xiangliang Kong

In this work codes with availability are constructed based on the cyclic \emph{locally repairable code} (LRC) construction by Tamo et al. and their extension to $(r,\rho)$-locality by Chen et al. The minimum distance of these codes is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Lukas Holzbaur , Ragnar Freij-Hollanti , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

We construct Locally Recoverable Codes (LRCs) with availability $2$ from a family of fibered surfaces. To obtain the locality and availability properties, and to estimate the minimum distance of the codes, we combine techniques coming from…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Cecília Salgado , Lara Vicino

Locally recoverable (LRC) codes have recently been a focus point of research in coding theory due to their theoretical appeal and applications in distributed storage systems. In an LRC code, any erased symbol of a codeword can be recovered…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Abhishek Agarwal , Alexander Barg , Sihuang Hu , Arya Mazumdar , Itzhak Tamo

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

Erasure codes play an important role in storage systems to prevent data loss. In this work, we study a class of erasure codes called Multi-Erasure Locally Recoverable Codes (ME-LRCs) for storage arrays. Compared to previous related works,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-29 Pengfei Huang , Eitan Yaakobi , Paul H. Siegel

Locally repairable codes (LRCs) have gained significant interest for the design of large distributed storage systems as they allow a small number of erased nodes to be recovered by accessing only a few others. Several works have thus been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Matthias Grezet , Ragnar Freij-Hollanti , Thomas Westerbäck , Camilla Hollanti

A code over a finite field is called locally recoverable code (LRC) if every coordinate symbol can be determined by a small number (at most r, this parameter is called locality) of other coordinate symbols. For a linear code with length n,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Hao Chen , Jian Weng , Weiqi Luo

Locally repairable codes enables fast repair of node failure in a distributed storage system. The code symbols in a codeword are stored in different storage nodes, such that a disk failure can be recovered by accessing a small fraction of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Kenneth W. Shum , Jie Hao

In this paper, locally repairable codes with all-symbol locality are studied. Methods to modify already existing codes are presented. Also, it is shown that with high probability, a random matrix with a few extra columns guaranteeing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Toni Ernvall , Thomas Westerbäck , Camilla Hollanti , Ragnar Freij

Locally recoverable (LRC) codes provide ways of recovering erased coordinates of the codeword without having to access each of the remaining coordinates. A subfamily of LRC codes with hierarchical locality (H-LRC codes) provides added…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Sean Ballentine , Alexander Barg , Serge Vladuts

Locally repairable codes (LRCs) play a crucial role in mitigating data loss in large-scale distributed and cloud storage systems. This paper establishes a unified decomposition theorem for general optimal $(r,\delta)$-LRCs. Based on this,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Kun Zhou , Meng Cao