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Capacity and Security of Heterogeneous Distributed Storage Systems




AuthorsToni Ernvall, Salim El Rouayheb, Camilla Hollanti, H Vincent Poor

EditorsAmos Lapidoth et al.

PublisherIEEE Communications Society

Publication year2013

JournalIEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Book title 2013 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory Proceedings (ISIT)

Journal acronymIEEE JSAC

Number in series12

Volume31

Issue12

First page 2701

Last page2709

Number of pages9

ISSN0733-8716

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1109/JSAC.2013.131210


Abstract

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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