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Piggybacking is an efficient method to decrease the repair bandwidth of Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) codes or Minimum Storage Regenerating (MSR) codes. In this paper, for minimizing the repair bandwidth of parity nodes of the known MSR…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-26 Bin Yang , Xiaohu Tang , Jie Li

In distributed storage systems that use coding, the issue of minimizing the communication required to rebuild a storage node after a failure arises. We consider the problem of repairing an erased node in a distributed storage system that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-09-20 Zhiying Wang , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Jehoshua Bruck

In 2013, Rashmi et al. proposed the piggybacking design framework to reduce the repair bandwidth of $(n,k;l)$ MDS array codes with small sub-packetization $l$ and it has been studied extensively in recent years. In this work, we propose an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Ke Wang

Distributed storage systems need to store data redundantly in order to provide some fault-tolerance and guarantee system reliability. Different coding techniques have been proposed to provide the required redundancy more efficiently than…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Lluis Pamies-Juarez , Henk D. L. Hollmann , Frédérique Oggier

In distributed storage systems (DSSs), the optimal tradeoff between node storage and repair bandwidth is an important issue for designing distributed coding strategies to ensure large scale data reliability. The capacity of DSSs is obtained…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-11 Jingzhao Wang , Tinghan Wang , Yuan Luo , Kenneth W. Shum

Error-correcting codes are essential for ensuring fault tolerance in modern distributed data storage systems. However, in practice, factors such as the failure rates of storage devices can vary significantly over time, resulting in changes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Haoming Shi , Weijun Fang , Yuan Gao

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

Reed-Solomon (RS) codes are widely used in distributed storage systems. In this paper, we study the repair bandwidth and sub-packetization size of RS codes. The repair bandwidth is defined as the amount of transmitted information from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Weiqi Li , Zhiying Wang , Hamid Jafarkhani

We consider the setting of data storage across n nodes in a distributed manner. A data collector (DC) should be able to reconstruct the entire data by connecting to any k out of the n nodes and downloading all the data stored in them. When…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-09-05 Nihar B. Shah , K. V. Rashmi , P. Vijay Kumar , Kannan Ramchandran

In this paper distributed storage systems with exact repair are studied. A construction for regenerating codes between the minimum storage regenerating (MSR) and the minimum bandwidth regenerating (MBR) points is given. To the best of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-21 Toni Ernvall

Cooperative regenerating codes are designed for repairing multiple node failures in distributed storage systems. In contrast to the original repair model of regenerating codes, which are for the repair of single node failure, data exchange…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-29 Kenneth W. Shum , Junyu Chen

In a distributed storage systems (DSS), regenerating codes are used to optimize bandwidth in the repair process of a failed node. To optimize other DSS parameters such as computation and disk I/O, Distributed Replication-based Simple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-28 Srijan Anil , Manish K. Gupta , T. Aaron Gulliver

In distributed storage systems, locally repairable codes (LRCs) are designed to reduce disk I/O and repair costs by enabling recovery of each code symbol from a small number of other symbols. To handle multiple node failures,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Jing Qiu , Fang-Wei Fu

Z-complementary code sets (ZCCSs) are used in multicarrier code-division multiple access (MC-CDMA) systems, for interference-free communication over multiuser and quasi-asynchronous environments. In this letter, we propose three new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Gobinda Ghosh , Sudhan Majhi , Shubabrata Paul

A linear code with parameters $[n, k, n - k + 1]$ is called maximum distance separable (MDS), and one with parameters $[n, k, n - k]$ is called almost MDS (AMDS). A code is near-MDS (NMDS) if both it and its dual are AMDS. NMDS codes…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Hengfeng Liu , Chunming Tang , Zhengchun Zhou , Dongchun Han , Hao Chen

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

Recently Reed-Solomon (RS) codes were shown to possess a repair scheme that supports repair of failed nodes with optimal repair bandwidth. In this paper, we extend this result in two directions. First, we propose a new repair scheme for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Zitan Chen , Min Ye , Alexander Barg

In distributed storage systems that employ erasure coding, the issue of minimizing the total {\it repair bandwidth} required to exactly regenerate a storage node after a failure arises. This repair bandwidth depends on the structure of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-06-10 Dimitris S. Papailiopoulos , Alexandros G. Dimakis

An [n, k] linear code C that is subject to locality constraints imposed by a parity check matrix H0 is said to be a maximally recoverable (MR) code if it can recover from any erasure pattern that some k-dimensional subcode of the null space…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-29 S. B. Balaji , P. Vijay Kumar

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