California Institute of Technology

Purdue Research Foundation

Hongyi Yao

Tracey Ho

Cristina Nita-Rotaru

Derek Leong

Svitlana Vyetrenko

Zhao Li

Omer Tekin

A computer-based distributed error correction scheme with an efficient decoding algorithm is disclosed. The efficiency of the corresponding decoding algorithm, based on standard single source Reed-Solomon error correcting codes, makes the practical employment of the DECC feasible. Various implementation examples are also provided.

Distributed Reed-Solomon codes for simple multiple access networks

Allocation of storage budget in a computer-based distributed storage system is described, where associated computer-based storage nodes have heterogeneous access probabilities. The problem is to allocate a given storage budget across the available computer-based nodes so as to store a unit-size data object (e.g. file) with a higher reliability (e.g. increased probability for the storage budget to be recovered). Efficient algorithms for optimizing over one or more classes of allocations are presented. A basic one-level symmetric allocation is presented, where the storage budget is spread evenly over an appropriately chosen subset of nodes. Furthermore, a two-level symmetric allocation is presented, where the budget is divided into two parts, each spread evenly over a different subset of computer-based storage nodes, such that the amount allocated to each node in the first subset is twice that of the second subset. Further expansion of the two-level symmetric allocation is provided with a three-level and a generic k-level symmetric allocation.

Distributed storage allocation for heterogeneous systems

A network and related methods for transmitting processes in a network secretly and securely is described. The network use keys, through path-key establishment and a key pool bootstrapping, to ensure that packets are transmitted and received properly and secretly in the presence of one or more adversarial nodes.

Key agreement in wireless networks with active adversaries

Distributed reed-solomon codes for simple multiple access networks

Error correction coding for streaming communication is provided. A streaming problem is modeled as a non-multicast network problem with a nested receiver structure. Each packet in the streaming problem corresponds to a link, and each deadline in the streaming problem corresponds to a receiver in the non-multicast network problem. For the non-multicast network problem, content to be transmitted in multiple packets to multiple receivers is obtained. Each of the receivers is required to decode specific independent messages from the content, at given time steps, and has access to a subset of the content received by another receiver. The content is allocated into multiple packets to be transmitted on multiple links. No coding occurs across information demanded by different receivers. A capacity region defines a set of information rate vectors that can be communicated to the receivers successfully. A rate vector is successfully communicated if it complies with various inequalities.

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