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Maximum distance separable (MDS) codes that are not equivalent to generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) codes are called non-GRS MDS codes. Alongside near MDS (NMDS) codes, they are applicable in communication, cryptography, and storage systems.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yang Li , Martianus Frederic Ezerman , Huimin Lao , San Ling

Extended Han-Zhang codes are a class of linear codes where each code is either a non-generalized Reed-Solomon (non-GRS) maximum distance separable (MDS) code or a near MDS (NMDS) code. They have important applications in communication,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Yang Li , Zhenliang Lu , San Ling , Shixin Zhu , Kwok Yan Lam

Reed-Solomon (RS) codes are widely used to correct errors in storage systems. Finding the error locator polynomial is one of the key steps in the error correction procedure of RS codes. Modular Approach (MA) is an effective algorithm for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Zhengyi Jiang , Hao Shi , Zhongyi Huang , Linqi Song , Bo Bai , Gong Zhang , Hanxu Hou

$\epsilon$-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

It is an important task to construct quantum maximum-distance-separable (MDS) codes with good parameters. In the present paper, we provide six new classes of q-ary quantum MDS codes by using generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) codes and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Weijun Fang , Fang-Wei Fu

We investigate when a maximum distance separable ($MDS$) code over $F_q$ is also completely regular ($CR$). For lengths $n=q+1$ and $n=q+2$ we provide a complete classification of the $MDS$ codes that are $CR$ or at least uniformly packed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Joaquim Borges , Josep Rifà , Victor Zinoviev

We consider {\it i)} the overhead minimization of maximum-distance separable (MDS) storage codes for the repair of a single failed node and {\it ii)} the total secure degrees-of-freedom (S-DoF) maximization in a multiple-access compound…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Dimitris S. Papailiopoulos , Alexandros G. Dimakis

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

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

Binary array codes are widely used in storage systems to prevent data loss, such as the Redundant Array of Independent Disks~(RAID). Most designs for such codes, such as Blaum-Roth~(BR) codes and Independent-Parity~(IP) codes, are carried…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Leilei Yu , Yunghsiang S. Han , Jiasheng Yuan , Zhongpei Zhang

In this paper we introduce a lowest density MDS array code which is applied to a Smart Meter network to introduce reliability. By treating the network as distributed storage with multiple sources, information can be exchanged between the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-07 Magnus Sandell , Filippo Tosato

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

Coded distributed matrix multiplication (CDMM) schemes, such as MatDot codes, seek efficient ways to distribute matrix multiplication task(s) to a set of $N$ distributed servers so that the answers returned from any $R$ servers are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Junge Wang , Zhuqing Jia , Syed A. Jafar

A cumbersome operation in many scientific fields, is inverting large full-rank matrices. In this paper, we propose a coded computing approach for recovering matrix inverse approximations. We first present an approximate matrix inversion…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Neophytos Charalambides , Mert Pilanci , Alfred Hero

Maximum distance separable (MDS) codes have the optimal trade-off between storage efficiency and fault tolerance, which are widely used in distributed storage systems. As typical non-MDS codes, simple regenerating codes (SRCs) can achieve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Zhengyi Jiang , Hao Shi , Zhongyi Huang , Bo Bai , Gong Zhang , Hanxu Hou

We study the existence over small fields of Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) codes with generator matrices having specified supports (i.e. having specified locations of zero entries). This problem unifies and simplifies the problems posed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-17 Son Hoang Dau , Wentu Song , Chau Yuen

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

We consider the design of regenerating codes for distributed storage systems that enjoy the property of local, exact and uncoded repair, i.e., (a) upon failure, a node can be regenerated by simply downloading packets from the surviving…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-27 Oktay Olmez , Aditya Ramamoorthy

A passive adversary can eavesdrop stored content or downloaded content of some storage nodes, in order to learn illegally about the file stored across a distributed storage system (DSS). Previous work in the literature focuses on code…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-19 Son Hoang Dau , Wentu Song , Chau Yuen

The mds (maximum distance separable) conjecture claims that a nontrivial linear mds $[n,k]$ code over the finite field $GF(q)$ satisfies $n \leq (q + 1)$, except when $q$ is even and $k = 3$ or $k = q- 1$ in which case it satisfies $n \leq…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Ted Hurley