English
Related papers

Related papers: Generic Construction of Optimal-Access Binary MDS …

200 papers

Locally repairable codes (LRCs), which can recover any symbol of a codeword by reading only a small number of other symbols, have been widely used in real-world distributed storage systems, such as Microsoft Azure Storage and Ceph Storage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Wenqin Zhang , Deng Tang , Chenhao Ying , Yuan Luo

In this paper, we discuss codes for distributed storage systems with hierarchical repair properties. Specifically, we devote attention to the repair problem of the rack-aware storage model with locality, aiming to enhance the system's…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Yumeng Yang , Han Cai , Xiaohu Tang

$\epsilon$-Minimum Storage Regenerating ($\epsilon$-MSR) codes form a special class of Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) codes, providing mechanisms for exact regeneration of a single code block in their codewords by downloading slighly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Venkatesan Guruswami , Satyanarayana V. Lokam , Sai Vikneshwar Mani Jayaraman

In this paper, a new repair scheme for a modified construction of MDS codes is studied. The obtained repair scheme has optimal bandwidth for multiple failed nodes under the cooperative repair model. In addition, the repair scheme has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Xing Lin , Han Cai , Xiaohu Tang

Regenerating codes are a class of distributed storage codes that optimally trade the bandwidth needed for repair of a failed node with the amount of data stored per node of the network. Minimum Storage Regenerating (MSR) codes minimize…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-07-27 K. V. Rashmi , Nihar B. Shah , P. Vijay Kumar

Optimal locally repairable codes with information locality are considered. Optimal codes are constructed, whose length is also order-optimal with respect to a new bound on the code length derived in this paper. The length of the constructed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Han Cai , Moshe Schwartz

The repair problem in distributed storage addresses recovery of the data encoded using an erasure code, for instance, a Reed-Solomon (RS) code. We consider the problem of repairing a single node or multiple nodes in RS-coded storage systems…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-07 Itzhak Tamo , Min Ye , Alexander Barg

In this paper, we propose locally repairable codes (LRCs) with optimal minimum distance for distributed storage systems (DSS). A two-layer encoding structure is employed to ensure data reconstruction and the designated repair locality. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-15 Hongmei Xie , Zhiyuan Yan

We consider a set up where a file of size M is stored in n distributed storage nodes, using an (n,k) minimum storage regenerating (MSR) code, i.e., a maximum distance separable (MDS) code that also allows efficient exact-repair of any…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-04-27 Viveck R. Cadambe , Syed A. Jafar , Hamed Maleki

Distributed storage systems employ codes to provide resilience to failure of multiple storage disks. Specifically, an $(n, k)$ MDS code stores $k$ symbols in $n$ disks such that the overall system is tolerant to a failure of up to $n-k$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-16 Sreechakra Goparaju , Itzhak Tamo , Robert Calderbank

We consider the rack-aware storage system where $n=\bar{n}u$ nodes are organized in $\bar{n}$ racks each containing $u$ nodes, and any $k=\bar{k}u+u_0~(0\leq u_0<u)$ nodes can retrieve the original data file. More importantly, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Liyang Zhou , Zhifang Zhang

We introduce a new class of exact Minimum-Bandwidth Regenerating (MBR) codes for distributed storage systems, characterized by a low-complexity uncoded repair process that can tolerate multiple node failures. These codes consist of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-10-14 Salim El Rouayheb , Kannan Ramchandran

The high repair cost of (n,k) Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) erasure codes has recently motivated a new class of codes, called Regenerating Codes, that optimally trade off storage cost for repair bandwidth. On one end of this spectrum of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-04-19 Changho Suh , Kannan Ramchandran

An $(n,k,d)$ cooperative regenerating code provides the optimal-bandwidth repair for any $t~(t\!>\!1)$ node failures in a cooperative way. In particular, an MSCR (minimum storage cooperative regenerating) code retains the same storage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Yaqian Zhang , Zhifang Zhang

Regenerating codes are efficient methods for distributed storage in storage networks, where node failures are common. They guarantee low cost data reconstruction and repair through accessing only a predefined number of arbitrarily chosen…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-09 Kaveh Mahdaviani , Ashish Khisti , Soheil Mohajer

Partial MDS (PMDS) codes are erasure codes combining local (row) correction with global additional correction of entries, while Sector-Disk (SD) codes are erasure codes that address the mixed failure mode of current RAID systems. It has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-21 Mario Blaum , James S. Plank , Moshe Schwartz , Eitan Yaakobi

A novel coding scheme for exact repair-regenerating codes is presented in this paper. The codes proposed in this work can trade between the repair bandwidth of nodes (number of downloaded symbols from each surviving node in a repair…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Mehran Elyasi , Soheil Mohajer

Maximum distance separable (MDS) array codes constitute an important class of error-correcting codes due to their optimal distance properties and their relevance in distributed storage systems. In this paper, we investigate the construction…

In the modern era of large-scale computing systems, a crucial use of error correcting codes is to judiciously introduce redundancy to ensure recoverability from failure. To get the most out of every byte, practitioners and theorists have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Joshua Brakensiek , Venkatesan Guruswami

Minimum storage regenerating (MSR) codes are MDS codes which allow for recovery of any single erased symbol with optimal repair bandwidth, based on the smallest possible fraction of the contents downloaded from each of the other symbols.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Venkatesan Guruswami , Haotian Jiang