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most citedRepair Locality with Multiple Erasure Tolerance

197 citations · 292 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.IT2022

An Efficient Piggybacking Design Framework with Sub-packetization for All-Node Repair

Ke Wang, Zhifang Zhang

Piggybacking design has been widely applied in distributed storage systems since it can greatly reduce the repair bandwidth with small sub-packetization. Compared with other existi…

cs.IT2021★ 16 cited

Rack-Aware Regenerating Codes with Multiple Erasure Tolerance

Liyang Zhou, Zhifang Zhang

In a modern distributed storage system, storage nodes are organized in racks, and the cross-rack communication dominates the system bandwidth. In We study the rack-aware storage sy…

cs.IT2021★ 8 cited

Explicit Construction of Minimum Bandwidth Rack-Aware Regenerating Codes

Liyang Zhou, Zhifang Zhang

In large data centers, storage nodes are organized in racks, and the cross-rack transmission dominates the bandwidth cost. For the repair of single node failures, codes achieving t…

cs.IT2021★ 3 cited

Explicit Construction of Minimum Storage Rack-Aware Regenerating Codes for All Parameters

Liyang Zhou, Zhifang Zhang

We consider the rack-aware storage system where nodes are organized in racks each containing nodes, and any nodes can retr…

cs.IT2021★ 6 cited

Rack-Aware Regenerating Codes with Fewer Helper Racks

Zhifang Zhang, Liyang Zhou

We consider the rack-aware storage system where \(n\) nodes are organized in \(\bar{n}\) racks each containing \(u\) nodes, and any \(k\) nodes can retrieve the stored file. Moreov…

cs.IT2019★ 3 cited

A Capacity-Achieving -PIR Scheme Based On MDS Array Codes

Jingke Xu, Yaqian Zhang, Zhifang Zhang

Suppose a database containing records is replicated in each of servers, and a user wants to privately retrieve one record by accessing the servers such that identity of the…

cs.IT2019★ 2 cited

An Improved Cooperative Repair Scheme for Reed-Solomon Codes

Yaqian Zhang, Zhifang Zhang

Dau et al. recently extend Guruswami and Wootters' scheme (STOC'2016) to cooperatively repair two or three erasures in Reed-Solomon (RS) codes. However, their scheme restricts to e…

cs.IT2018

Scalar MSCR Codes via the Product Matrix Construction

Yaqian Zhang, Zhifang Zhang

An cooperative regenerating code provides the optimal-bandwidth repair for any node failures in a cooperative way. In particular, an MSCR (minimum storage c…

cs.IT2018★ 2 cited

Building Capacity-Achieving PIR Schemes with Optimal Sub-Packetization over Small Fields

Jingke Xu, Zhifang Zhang

Suppose a database containing records is replicated across servers, and a user wants to privately retrieve one record by accessing the servers such that identity of the ret…

cs.IT2017★ 14 cited

On Sub-Packetization and Access Number of Capacity-Achieving PIR Schemes for MDS Coded Non-Colluding Servers

Jingke Xu, Zhifang Zhang

Consider the problem of private information retrieval (PIR) over a distributed storage system where records are stored across servers by using an MDS code. For simp…

cs.IT2017★ 3 cited

Capacity-Achieving PIR Schemes with Optimal Sub-Packetization

Zhifang Zhang, Jingke Xu

Suppose a database containing records is replicated across servers, and a user wants to privately retrieve one record by accessing the servers such that identity of the ret…

cs.IT2017

Private Multi-File Retrieval From Distributed Databases

Zhifang Zhang, Jingke Xu

Suppose there are distributed databases each storing a full set of independent files. A user wants to retrieve out of the files without revealing the identity of th…

cs.IT2017★ 2 cited

Bounds and Constructions for Linear Locally Repairable Codes over Binary Fields

Anyu Wang, Zhifang Zhang, Dongdai Lin

For binary linear locally repairable codes (LRCs), two new upper bounds on are derived. The first one applies to LRCs with disjoint local repair groups, for general v…

cs.IT2015★ 11 cited

Achieving Arbitrary Locality and Availability in Binary Codes

Anyu Wang, Zhifang Zhang

The th coordinate of an code is said to have locality and availability if there exist disjoint groups, each containing at most other coordinates that can…

cs.IT2014★ 6 cited

An Integer Programming Based Bound for Locally Repairable Codes

Anyu Wang, Zhifang Zhang

The locally repairable code (LRC) studied in this paper is an linear code of which the value at each coordinate can be recovered by a linear combination of at most othe…

cs.IT2014★ 15 cited

Repair Locality From a Combinatorial Perspective

Anyu Wang, Zhifang Zhang

Repair locality is a desirable property for erasure codes in distributed storage systems. Recently, different structures of local repair groups have been proposed in the definition…

cs.IT2013★ 197 cited

Repair Locality with Multiple Erasure Tolerance

Anyu Wang, Zhifang Zhang

In distributed storage systems, erasure codes with locality is preferred because a coordinate can be recovered by accessing at most other coordinates which in turn greatly…

cs.IT2012★ 4 cited

Network Coding Based on Chinese Remainder Theorem

Zhifang Zhang

Random linear network code has to sacrifice part of bandwidth to transfer the coding vectors, thus a head of size k log|T| is appended to each packet. We present a distributed rand…

cs.IT2012

Exact Cooperative Regenerating Codes with Minimum-Repair-Bandwidth for Distributed Storage

Anyu Wang, Zhifang Zhang

We give an explicit construction of exact cooperative regenerating codes at the MBCR (minimum bandwidth cooperative regeneration) point. Before the paper, the only known explicit M…