STAR: An efficient coding scheme for correcting triple storage node failures

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 889-901

  Huang, Cheng ^a   Xu, Lihao ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Wayne State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Error control codes; Fault tolerance; High availability; Storage systems

Indexed keywords

CODING SCHEMES; DATA PLACEMENTS; DATA REDUNDANCIES; DATA STORAGE SYSTEMS; DECODING ALGORITHMS; DECODING COMPLEXITY; ERASURE CORRECTING; ERROR CONTROL CODES; HIGH AVAILABILITY; LOW DECODING COMPLEXITY; MAXIMUM DISTANCE SEPARABLE CODES; NODE FAILURES; PRACTICAL SYSTEMS; STORAGE NODES; STORAGE SYSTEMS;

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DECODING; FAULT TOLERANCE; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 65449164203     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TC.2007.70830     Document Type: Article

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