TH1.R5.1

Repairing a Single Erasure in Reed-Solomon Codes with Side Information

Thi Xinh Dinh, RMIT University, Australia; Ba Thong Le, Tay Nguyen University, Viet Nam; Son Hoang Dau, Serdar Boztas, RMIT University, Australia; Stanislav Kruglik, Han Mao Kiah, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Emanuele Viterbo, Monash University, Australia; Tuvi Etzion, Yeow Meng Chee, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Session:
Repair Codes 1

Track:
13: Coding for Computation and Storage

Location:
Omikron I

Presentation Time:
Thu, 11 Jul, 09:45 - 10:05

Session Chair:
Tuvi Etzion, Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology
Abstract
We generalize the problem of recovering a lost/erased symbol in a Reed-Solomon code to the scenario in which some side information about the lost symbol is known. The side information is represented as a set S of linearly independent combinations of the sub-symbols of the lost symbol. When S = ∅, this reduces to the standard problem of repairing a single codeword symbol. When S is a set of sub-symbols of the erased one, this becomes the repair problem with partially lost/erased symbol. We first establish that the minimum repair bandwidth depends on |S| and not the content of S and produce a lower bound on the repair bandwidth of a linear repair scheme with side information S. We then consider the well-known subspace-polynomial repair schemes and show that the repair bandwidths of such schemes can be optimized by choosing the right subspaces. Finally, we demonstrate several parameter regimes where the optimal bandwidths can be achieved for full-length Reed-Solomon codes.
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