Abstract: Erasure coding is a common redundancy scheme for tolerating failures in storage systems. Compared with replication, erasure coding saves a large amount of storage space, but incurs heavy ...

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Abstract: In distributed storage systems that employ erasure coding, the issue of minimizing the total communication required to exactly rebuild a storage node after a failure arises. This repair ...