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Layered, Exact-Repair Regenerating Codes Via Embedded Error Correction and Block Designs

arXiv:1408.0377 · doi:10.1109/TIT.2015.2408595

Abstract

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 the helper nodes simply transfer part of the stored data directly, without performing any computation. This embedded error correction structure makes the decoding process straightforward, and in some cases the complexity is very low. We show that this construction is able to achieve performance better than space-sharing between the minimum storage regenerating codes and the minimum repair-bandwidth regenerating codes, and it is the first class of codes to achieve this performance. In fact, it is shown that the proposed construction can achieve a non-trivial point on the optimal functional-repair tradeoff, and it is asymptotically optimal at high rate, i.e., it asymptotically approaches the minimum storage and the minimum repair-bandwidth simultaneously.

This is a combination of the following two papers with additional results (new asymptotic analysis, a better alphabet size bound and smaller repetition factors): arXiv:1302.4670 "Exact-Repair Regenerating Codes Via Layered Erasure Correction and Block Designs" by Tian, Aggarwal, and Vaishampayan, and arXiv:1301.6157 "High-Rate Regenerating Codes Through Layering" by Sasidharan and Kumar

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