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Locally repairable codes (LRCs) are error correcting codes used in distributed data storage. Besides a global level, they enable errors to be corrected locally, reducing the need for communication between storage nodes. There is a close…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Antti Pöllänen , Thomas Westerbäck , Ragnar Freij-Hollanti , Camilla Hollanti

This paper presents a theoretical study of a new type of LDPC codes motivated by practical storage applications. LDPCL codes (suffix L represents locality) are LDPC codes that can be decoded either as usual over the full code block, or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Eshed Ram , Yuval Cassuto

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

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are more prone to be affected by transient faults in presence of radiation and other environmental hazards compared to Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs). Hence, error mitigation and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2015-09-24 Swagata Mandal , Rourab Paul , Suman Sau , Amlan Chakrabarti , Subhasis Chattopadhyay

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

Conventional coded computing frameworks are predominantly tailored for structured computations, such as matrix multiplication and polynomial evaluation. Such tasks allow the reuse of tools and techniques from algebraic coding theory to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Parsa Moradi , Hanzaleh Akbarinodehi , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali

Federated clustering (FC) aims to discover global cluster structures across decentralized clients without sharing raw data, making privacy preservation a fundamental requirement. There are two critical challenges: (1) privacy leakage during…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jie Yan , Jing Liu , Zhong-Yuan Zhang

In modern data storage systems, non-binary LDPC codes for recovering from disk failures are increasingly considered strong competitors to MDS codes such as Reed-Solomon codes. Since disk failures can be modeled as erasures, we analyze…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Irina Bocharova , Boris Kudryashov , Henk D. L. Hollmann , Vitaly Skachek

We introduce the class of partition-balanced families of codes, and show how to exploit their combinatorial invariants to obtain upper and lower bounds on the number of codes that have a prescribed property. In particular, we derive precise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Eimear Byrne , Alberto Ravagnani

In this work, we propose the integration of GLDPC codes with short polar-like component codes, termed GLDPC codes with polar component codes (GLDPC-PC). This approach leverages the good distance properties of polar-like codes and mitigates…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Binghui Shi , Yongpeng Wu , Yin Xu , Xiqi Gao , Xiaohu You , Wenjun Zhang

Recent work on approximate quantum error correction (QEC) has opened up the possibility of constructing subspace codes that protect information with high fidelity in scenarios where perfect error correction is impossible. Motivated by this,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-31 Prabha Mandayam , Hui Khoon Ng

Quantum error correction has recently been shown to benefit greatly from specific physical encodings of the code qubits. In particular, several researchers have considered the individual code qubits being encoded with the continuous…

To well understand the behavior of quantum error correction codes (QECC) in noise processes, we need to obtain explicit coding maps for QECC. Due to extraordinary amount of computational labor that they entails, explicit coding maps are a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-04 Chaobin Liu

Large-scale distributed storage systems typically use erasure codes to provide durability of data in the face of failures. A set of $k$ blocks to be stored is encoded using an $[n, k]$ code to generate $n$ blocks that are then stored on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Francisco Maturana , K. V. Rashmi

We consider a communication problem in which an update of the source message needs to be conveyed to one or more distant receivers that are interested in maintaining specific linear functions of the source message. The setting is one in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-07 N. Prakash , Muriel Medard

To better understand the wireless network design with a large number of hops, we investigate a line network formed by general discrete memoryless channels (DMCs), which may not be identical. Our focus lies on Generalized Batched Network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Jie Wang , Shenghao Yang , Yanyan Dong , Yiheng Zhang

It is well known that the minimum distance for linear network codes plays the same role as the minimum distance for classical error control codes. However, Yang and Yeung (2008) discovered that for nonlinear network codes, the minimum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Yulin Chen , Raymond W. Yeung

Generalized Polynomial Chaos (gPC) theory has been widely used for representing parametric uncertainty in a system, thanks to its ability to propagate uncertainty evolution. In an optimal control context, gPC can be combined with several…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-05 Yuichiro Aoyama , Augustinos D. Saravanos , Evangelos A. Theodorou

We introduce a unified generalization of several well-established high-throughput coding techniques including staircase codes, tiled diagonal zipper codes, continuously interleaved codes, open forward error correction (OFEC) codes, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Mohannad Shehadeh , Frank R. Kschischang

This paper presents and analyzes a novel concatenated coding scheme for enabling error resilience in two distributed storage settings: one being storage using existing regenerating codes and the second being storage using locally repairable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-12 Natalia Silberstein , Ankit Singh Rawat , Sriram Vishwanath