| Paper ID | D2-S6-T2.1 |
| Paper Title |
Repairing Reed--Solomon Codes Evaluated on Subspaces |
| Authors |
Amit Berman, Sarit Buzaglo, Avner Dor, Yaron Shany, Samsung Israel R&D Center (SIRC), Israel; Itzhak Tamo, Tel Aviv University, Israel |
| Session |
D2-S6-T2: Reed-Solomon & MDS Codes |
| Chaired Session: |
Tuesday, 13 July, 23:40 - 00:00 |
| Engagement Session: |
Wednesday, 14 July, 00:00 - 00:20 |
| Abstract |
We consider the repair problem for Reed--Solomon (RS) codes, evaluated on an $\efq$-linear subspace $U\subseteq\efqm$ of dimension $d$, where $q$ is a prime power, $m$ is a positive integer, and $\efq$ is the Galois field of size $q$. For $q>2$, we show the existence of a linear repair scheme for the RS code of length $n=q^d$ and codimension $q^s$, $s< d$, evaluated on $U$, in which each of the $n-1$ surviving nodes transmits only $r$ symbols of $\efq$, provided that $ms\geq d(m-r)$. For the case $q=2$, we prove a similar result, with some restrictions on the evaluation linear subspace $U$. Our proof is based on a probabilistic argument, however the result is not merely an existence result; the success probability is fairly large (at least $1/3$) and there is a simple criterion for checking the validity of the randomly chosen linear repair scheme.
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