Abstract: Maximum distance separable (MDS) codes are commonly deployed in distributed storage systems as they provide the maximum failure tolerance for some given redundancy. The repair problem of MDS ...

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Abstract: The problem of repairing linear codes and, in particular, Reed Solomon (RS) codes has attracted a lot of attention in recent years due to their extreme importance to distributed storage ...