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Easy repair via codes with simplex locality

Margreta Kuijper·Julia Lieb·Diego Napp
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In the context of distributed storage systems, locally repairable codes have become important. In this paper we focus on codes that allow for multi-erasure pattern decoding with low computational effort. Different optimality requirements, measured by the code's rate, minimum distance, locality, availability as well as field size, influence each other and can not all be maximized at the same time. We focus on the notion of easy repair, more specifically on the construction of codes that can repair correctable erasure patterns with minimal computational effort. In particular, we introduce the easy repair property and then present codes of different rates that possess this property. The presented codes are all in some way related to simplex codes and comprise block codes as well as unit-memory convolutional codes. We also formulate conditions under which the easy repairs can be performed in parallel, thus improving access speed of the distributed storage system.

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Margreta Kuijper, Julia Lieb, Diego Napp. 2025-04-15. Easy repair via codes with simplex locality. https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.11251

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