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Interference Alignment in Regenerating Codes for Distributed Storage: Necessity and Code Constructions

Shah, Nihar B and Rashmi, KV and Kumar, Vijay P and Ramchandran, Kannan (2012) Interference Alignment in Regenerating Codes for Distributed Storage: Necessity and Code Constructions. In: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION THEORY, 58 (4). pp. 2134-2158.

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Abstract

Regenerating codes are a class of recently developed codes for distributed storage that, like Reed-Solomon codes, permit data recovery from any arbitrary of nodes. However regenerating codes possess in addition, the ability to repair a failed node by connecting to any arbitrary nodes and downloading an amount of data that is typically far less than the size of the data file. This amount of download is termed the repair bandwidth. Minimum storage regenerating (MSR) codes are a subclass of regenerating codes that require the least amount of network storage; every such code is a maximum distance separable (MDS) code. Further, when a replacement node stores data identical to that in the failed node, the repair is termed as exact. The four principal results of the paper are (a) the explicit construction of a class of MDS codes for d = n - 1 >= 2k - 1 termed the MISER code, that achieves the cut-set bound on the repair bandwidth for the exact repair of systematic nodes, (b) proof of the necessity of interference alignment in exact-repair MSR codes, (c) a proof showing the impossibility of constructing linear, exact-repair MSR codes for d < 2k - 3 in the absence of symbol extension, and (d) the construction, also explicit, of high-rate MSR codes for d = k+1. Interference alignment (IA) is a theme that runs throughout the paper: the MISER code is built on the principles of IA and IA is also a crucial component to the nonexistence proof for d < 2k - 3. To the best of our knowledge, the constructions presented in this paper are the first explicit constructions of regenerating codes that achieve the cut-set bound.

Item Type: Journal Article
Publication: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION THEORY
Publisher: IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
Additional Information: Copyright IEEE
Keywords: Distributed storage;interference alignment;maximum-distance-separable (MDS) regenerating codes;network coding; node repair;partial data recovery
Department/Centre: Division of Electrical Sciences > Electrical Communication Engineering
Date Deposited: 19 May 2012 06:46
Last Modified: 19 May 2012 06:46
URI: http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/44380

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