How Long Can Optimal Locally Repairable Codes Be?

Authors Venkatesan Guruswami , Chaoping Xing , Chen Yuan



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Venkatesan Guruswami
  • Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA.
Chaoping Xing
  • School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Chen Yuan
  • Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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Venkatesan Guruswami, Chaoping Xing, and Chen Yuan. How Long Can Optimal Locally Repairable Codes Be?. In Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 116, pp. 41:1-41:11, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX-RANDOM.2018.41

Abstract

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.

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  • Theory of computation → Error-correcting codes
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  • Locally Repairable Code
  • Singleton Bound

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