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Optimal locally repairable codes of distance and via cyclic codes
Like classical block codes, a locally repairable code also obeys the
Singleton-type bound (we call a locally repairable code {\it optimal} if it
achieves the Singleton-type bound). In the breakthrough work of \cite{TB14},
several classes of optimal locally repairable codes were constructed via
subcodes of Reed-Solomon codes. Thus, the lengths of the codes given in
\cite{TB14} are upper bounded by the code alphabet size . Recently, it was
proved through extension of construction in \cite{TB14} that length of -ary
optimal locally repairable codes can be in \cite{JMX17}. Surprisingly,
\cite{BHHMV16} presented a few examples of -ary optimal locally repairable
codes of small distance and locality with code length achieving roughly .
Very recently, it was further shown in \cite{LMX17} that there exist -ary
optimal locally repairable codes with length bigger than and distance
propositional to .
Thus, it becomes an interesting and challenging problem to construct new
families of -ary optimal locally repairable codes of length bigger than
.
In this paper, we construct a class of optimal locally repairable codes of
distance and with unbounded length (i.e., length of the codes is
independent of the code alphabet size). Our technique is through cyclic codes
with particular generator and parity-check polynomials that are carefully
chosen
Bounds on Binary Locally Repairable Codes Tolerating Multiple Erasures
Recently, locally repairable codes has gained significant interest for their
potential applications in distributed storage systems. However, most
constructions in existence are over fields with size that grows with the number
of servers, which makes the systems computationally expensive and difficult to
maintain. Here, we study linear locally repairable codes over the binary field,
tolerating multiple local erasures. We derive bounds on the minimum distance on
such codes, and give examples of LRCs achieving these bounds. Our main
technical tools come from matroid theory, and as a byproduct of our proofs, we
show that the lattice of cyclic flats of a simple binary matroid is atomic.Comment: 9 pages, 1 figure. Parts of this paper were presented at IZS 2018.
This extended arxiv version includes corrected versions of Theorem 1.4 and
Proposition 6 that appeared in the IZS 2018 proceeding
How Long Can Optimal Locally Repairable Codes Be?
A locally repairable code (LRC) with locality r allows for the recovery of any erased codeword symbol using only r other codeword symbols. A Singleton-type bound dictates the best possible tradeoff between the dimension and distance of LRCs - an LRC attaining this tradeoff is deemed optimal. Such optimal LRCs have been constructed over alphabets growing linearly in the block length. Unlike the classical Singleton bound, however, it was not known if such a linear growth in the alphabet size is necessary or, for that matter, even if the alphabet needs to grow at all with the block length. Indeed, for small code distances 3 and 4, arbitrarily long optimal LRCs were known over fixed alphabets. Here, we prove that for distances d ≥5, the code length n of an optimal LRC over an alphabet of size q must be at most roughly O(dq3)}. For the case d= 5, our upper bound is O(q2). We complement these bounds by showing the existence of optimal LRCs of length Ωd, rq1+1/ lfloor ( d- 3)/ 2 rfloor ) when d \ r+ 2. These bounds match when d = 5, thus pinning down n = Θ(q2) as the asymptotically largest length of an optimal LRC for this case
How long can optimal locally repairable codes be?
A locally repairable code (LRC) with locality r allows for the recovery of any erased codeword symbol using only r other codeword symbols. A Singleton-type bound dictates the best possible trade-off between the dimension and distance of LRCs - an LRC attaining this trade-off is deemed optimal. Such optimal LRCs have been constructed over alphabets growing linearly in the block length. Unlike the classical Singleton bound, however, it was not known if such a linear growth in the alphabet size is necessary, or for that matter even if the alphabet needs to grow at all with the block length. Indeed, for small code distances 3,4, arbitrarily long optimal LRCs were known over fixed alphabets. Here, we prove that for distances d >=slant 5, the code length n of an optimal LRC over an alphabet of size q must be at most roughly O(d q^3). For the case d=5, our upper bound is O(q^2). We complement these bounds by showing the existence of optimal LRCs of length Omega_{d,r}(q^{1+1/floor[(d-3)/2]}) when d <=slant r+2. Our bounds match when d=5, pinning down n=Theta(q^2) as the asymptotically largest length of an optimal LRC for this case
Singleton-Optimal LRCs and Perfect LRCs via Cyclic and Constacyclic Codes
Locally repairable codes (LRCs) have emerged as an important coding scheme in
distributed storage systems (DSSs) with relatively low repair cost by accessing
fewer non-failure nodes. Theoretical bounds and optimal constructions of LRCs
have been widely investigated. Optimal LRCs via cyclic and constacyclic codes
provide significant benefit of elegant algebraic structure and efficient
encoding procedure. In this paper, we continue to consider the constructions of
optimal LRCs via cyclic and constacyclic codes with long code length.
Specifically, we first obtain two classes of -ary cyclic Singleton-optimal
-LRCs with length when and is
even, and length when and , respectively. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first
construction of -ary cyclic Singleton-optimal LRCs with length and
minimum distance . On the other hand, an LRC acheiving the
Hamming-type bound is called a perfect LRC. By using cyclic and constacyclic
codes, we construct two new families of -ary perfect LRCs with length
, minimum distance and locality
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