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A malleable coding scheme considers not only compression efficiency but also the ease of alteration, thus encouraging some form of recycling of an old compressed version in the formation of a new one. Malleability cost is the difficulty of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-07-01 Lav R. Varshney , Julius Kusuma , Vivek K Goyal

Heterogeneous Distributed Storage Systems (DSS) are close to real world applications for data storage. Internet caching system and peer-to-peer storage clouds are the examples of such DSS. In this work, we calculate the capacity formula for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-18 Krishna Gopal Benerjee , Manish Kumar Gupta

In a distributed storage system, code symbols are dispersed across space in nodes or storage units as opposed to time. In settings such as that of a large data center, an important consideration is the efficient repair of a failed node.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-13 S. B. Balaji , M. Nikhil Krishnan , Myna Vajha , Vinayak Ramkumar , Birenjith Sasidharan , P. Vijay Kumar

Modern distributed computation infrastructures are often plagued by unavailabilities such as failing or slow servers. These unavailabilities adversely affect the tail latency of computation in distributed infrastructures. The simple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Michael Rudow , K. V. Rashmi , Venkatesan Guruswami

We consider the problem of constructing an erasure code for storage over a network when the data sources are distributed. Specifically, we assume that there are n storage nodes with limited memory and k<n sources generating the data. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Alexandros G. Dimakis , Vinod Prabhakaran , Kannan Ramchandran

Distributed storage systems are mainly justified due to the limited amount of storage capacity and improving the reliability through distributing data over multiple storage nodes. On the other hand, it may happen the data is stored in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-04-15 Soroush Akhlaghi , Abbas Kiani , Mohammad Reza Ghanavati

Coding theoretic approached have been developed to significantly reduce the communication load in modern distributed computing system. In particular, coded distributed computing (CDC) introduced by Li et al. can efficiently trade…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Nicholas Woolsey , Rong-Rong Chen , Mingyue Ji

We consider the problem of efficient recovery of the data stored in any individual node of a distributed storage system, from the rest of the nodes. Applications include handling failures and degraded reads. We measure efficiency in terms…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Nihar B. Shah

We consider a simple multiple access network in which a destination node receives information from multiple sources via a set of relay nodes. Each relay node has access to a subset of the sources, and is connected to the destination by a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-22 Wael Halbawi , Tracey Ho , Hongyi Yao , Iwan Duursma

In this paper, we address the node repair problem of Reed-Solomon (RS) coded distributed storage systems. Specifically, to overcome the challenges of multiple-node failures of RS codes under the rack-aware storage model, we employ good…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Yumeng Yang , Han Cai , Xiaohu Tang

Coded Distributed Computing (CDC) introduced by Li et al. in 2015 offers an efficient approach to trade computing power to reduce the communication load in general distributed computing frameworks such as MapReduce and Spark. In particular,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Nicholas Woolsey , Rong-Rong Chen , Mingyue Ji

The continuously increasing amount of digital data generated by today's society asks for better storage solutions. This survey looks at a new generation of coding techniques designed specifically for the needs of distributed networked…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-01-31 Anwitaman Datta , Frederique Oggier

In applications of distributed storage systems to distributed computing and implementation of key- value stores, the following property, usually referred to as consistency in computer science and engineering, is an important requirement: as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-20 Zhiying Wang , Viveck R. Cadambe

The paper is devoted to the problem of erasure coding in distributed storage. We consider a model of storage that assumes that nodes are organized into equally sized groups, called racks, that within each group the nodes can communicate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Zitan Chen , Alexander Barg

In large scale distributed linear transform problems, coded computation plays an important role to effectively deal with "stragglers" (distributed computations that may get delayed due to few slow or faulty processors). We propose a coded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Sinong Wang , Jiashang Liu , Ness Shroff , Pengyu Yang

Distributed storage systems provide reliable access to data through redundancy spread over individually unreliable nodes. Application scenarios include data centers, peer-to-peer storage systems, and storage in wireless networks. Storing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2008-03-06 Alexandros G. Dimakis , P. Brighten Godfrey , Yunnan Wu , Martin J. Wainwright , Kannan Ramchandran

We consider a distributed computing framework where the distributed nodes have different communication capabilities, motivated by the heterogeneous networks in data centers and mobile edge computing systems. Following the structure of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Nishant Shakya , Fan Li , Jinyuan Chen

The problem of distributed matrix multiplication with straggler tolerance over finite fields is considered, focusing on field sizes for which previous solutions were not applicable (for instance, the field of two elements). We employ…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Adrián Fidalgo-Díaz , Umberto Martínez-Peñas

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

Heterogeneous computing is the strategy of deploying multiple types of processing elements within a single workflow, and allowing each to perform the tasks to which is best suited. To fully harness the power of heterogeneity, we want to be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Nikolaos Mavrogeorgis