A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
Capacity and Security of Heterogeneous Distributed Storage Systems
Authors: Toni Ernvall, Salim El Rouayheb, Camilla Hollanti, H Vincent Poor
Editors: Amos Lapidoth et al.
Publisher: IEEE Communications Society
Publication year: 2013
Journal: IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Book title : 2013 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory Proceedings (ISIT)
Journal acronym: IEEE JSAC
Number in series: 12
Volume: 31
Issue: 12
First page : 2701
Last page: 2709
Number of pages: 9
ISSN: 0733-8716
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/JSAC.2013.131210
The capacity of heterogeneous distributed storage systems under repair dynamics is studied. Examples of these systems include peer-to-peer storage clouds, wireless, and Internet caching systems. Nodes in a heterogeneous system can have different storage capacities and different repair bandwidths. Lower and upper bounds on the system capacity are given. These bounds depend on either the average resources per node, or on a detailed knowledge of the node characteristics. Moreover, the case in which nodes may be compromised by an adversary (passive or active) is addressed and bounds on the secure capacity of the system are derived. One implication of these new results is that symmetric repair maximizes the capacity of a homogeneous system, which justifies the model widely used in the literature.
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