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The issue of repairing Reed-Solomon codes currently employed in industry has been sporadically discussed in the literature. In this work we carry out a systematic study of these codes and investigate important aspects of repairing them…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Thi Xinh Dinh , Luu Y Nhi Nguyen , Lakshmi J. Mohan , Serdar Boztas , Tran Thi Luong , Son Hoang Dau

Locally repairable codes (LRCs) are a class of codes designed for the local correction of erasures. They have received considerable attention in recent years due to their applications in distributed storage. Most existing results on LRCs do…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-24 Pengfei Huang , Eitan Yaakobi , Hironori Uchikawa , Paul H. Siegel

This paper studies \emph{linear} and \emph{affine} error-correcting codes for correcting synchronization errors such as insertions and deletions. We call such codes linear/affine insdel codes. Linear codes that can correct even a single…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Kuan Cheng , Venkatesan Guruswami , Bernhard Haeupler , Xin Li

Constructions of optimal locally repairable codes (LRCs) in the case of $(r+1) \nmid n$ and over small finite fields were stated as open problems for LRCs in [I. Tamo \emph{et al.}, "Optimal locally repairable codes and connections to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-21 Toni Ernvall , Thomas Westerbäck , Camilla Hollanti

When a node in a distributed storage system fails, it needs to be promptly repaired to maintain system integrity. While typical erasure codes can provide a significant storage advantage over replication, they suffer from poor repair…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Geonu Kim , Jungwoo Lee

This paper presents a novel construction of $(n,k,d=n-1)$ access-optimal regenerating codes for an arbitrary sub-packetization level $\alpha$ for exact repair of any systematic node. We refer to these codes as general sub-packetized because…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Katina Kralevska , Danilo Gligoroski , Harald Øverby

Fractional repetition (FR) codes is a family of codes for distributed storage systems that allow for uncoded exact repairs having the minimum repair bandwidth. However, in contrast to minimum bandwidth regenerating (MBR) codes, where a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-22 Natalia Silberstein , Tuvi Etzion

The determination of the maximal length of maximum distance separable (MDS) codes arising from elliptic curves is a central problem in coding theory. For an elliptic curve $E$ over $\mathbb{F}_q$, let $\operatorname{MEC}(k,q)$ denote the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Haojie Chen , Chuangqiang Hu , Junjie Huang , Chang-An Zhao

Clustered distributed storage models real data centers where intra- and cross-cluster repair bandwidths are different. In this paper, exact-repair minimum-storage-regenerating (MSR) codes achieving capacity of clustered distributed storage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Jy-yong Sohn , Beongjun Choi , Jaekyun Moon

The locally repairable code (LRC) studied in this paper is an $[n,k]$ linear code of which the value at each coordinate can be recovered by a linear combination of at most $r$ other coordinates. The central problem in this work is to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-09-04 Anyu Wang , Zhifang Zhang

An $(n,k,\ell)$-vector MDS code is a $\mathbb{F}$-linear subspace of $(\mathbb{F}^\ell)^n$ (for some field $\mathbb{F}$) of dimension $k\ell$, such that any $k$ (vector) symbols of the codeword suffice to determine the remaining $r=n-k$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Omar Alrabiah , Venkatesan Guruswami

Codes correcting bursts of deletions and localized deletions have garnered significant research interest in recent years. One of the primary objectives is to construct codes with minimal redundancy. Currently, the best known constructions…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Zuo Ye , Yubo Sun , Gennian Ge

We construct constant-sized ensembles of linear error-correcting codes over any fixed alphabet that can correct a given fraction of adversarial erasures at rates approaching the Singleton bound arbitrarily closely. We provide several…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Yeyuan Chen , Mahdi Cheraghchi , Nikhil Shagrithaya

In this work, we study linear error-correcting codes against adversarial insertion-deletion (insdel) errors, a topic that has recently gained a lot of attention. We construct linear codes over $\mathbb{F}_q$, for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Roni Con , Amir Shpilka , Itzhak Tamo

A new class of exact-repair regenerating codes is constructed by stitching together shorter erasure correction codes, where the stitching pattern can be viewed as block designs. The proposed codes have the "help-by-transfer" property where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Chao Tian , Birenjith Sasidharan , Vaneet Aggarwal , Vinay A. Vaishampayan , P. Vijay Kumar

An error-erasure channel is a simple noise model that introduces both errors and erasures. While the two types of errors can be corrected simultaneously with error-correcting codes, it is also known that any linear code allows for first…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Yu Tsunoda , Yuichiro Fujiwara , Hana Ando , Peter Vandendriessche

Locally repairable codes (LRC) have recently been a subject of intense research due to theoretical appeal and their application in distributed storage systems. In an LRC, any coordinate of a codeword can be recovered by accessing only few…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-29 Abhishek Agarwal , Arya Mazumdar

Minimum storage regenerating (MSR) codes, with the MDS property and the optimal repair bandwidth, are widely used in distributed storage systems (DSS) for data recovery. In this paper, we consider the construction of $(n,k,l)$ MSR codes in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Shenghua Li , Maximilien Gadouleau , Jiaojiao Wang , Dabin Zheng

Minimum storage regenerating codes have minimum storage of data in each node and therefore are maximal distance separable (MDS for short) codes. Thus, the number of nodes is upper bounded by $2^{\fb}$, where $\fb$ is the bits of data stored…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-06 Lingfei Jin , Yuan Luo , Chaoping Xing

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…