DISTRIBUTED storage systems with high reliability have wide applications in large data centers, peer-to-peer storage systems, for examples OceanStore, Total Recall, DHash++, and storage in wireless networks. To ensure reliability, the redundancy is crucial for these systems. A popular option to add redundancy is to employ erasure codes which can efficiently store data and protect against node failures.
However, currently available codes have their own drawbacks: either inefficient or too complicated. Therefore, massive distributed storage networks, data centers and cloud storage systems desperately need new coding schemes and their practical implementation. In addition, recent advances in emerging data storage technologies, such as on-volatile memories and heat-assisted magnetic recording proposed new requirement on distributed storage codes.
In order to solve the above challenges, the new coding/decoding, secure code, and their implementation and performance evaluation methodology should be investigated in details.
In this special focus, all original, unpublished contributions spanning all aspects of Distributed Storage Coding are welcome. Possible topics of interest include, but not limited to:
Information theory and fundamental limits for distributed storage coding
● Coding techniques for cloud storage and distributed storage networks
● Code design for new storage media such as non-volatile memories
● Secure code for distributed storage system
● Practical implementation of encoding/decoding for distributed storage system
● Performance evaluation for code in distributed storage system
Information for Authors:
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Important Dates:
Manuscript submission deadline: Mar. 10, 2018
Acceptance notification: Jun. 10, 2018
Final manuscript due: July. 10, 2018
Publication: Oct. 1, 2018
Guest Editors:
Xiaohu Tang, Southwest Jiaotong University, China
xhutang@swjtu.edu.cn
Shu-Tao Xia, Tsinghua University, China
xiast@sz.tsinghua.edu.cn
Chao Tian, Texas A&M University, USA
chao.tian@tamu.edu
Qin Huang, Beihang University, China
qinhuang@buaa.edu.cn
Xiang-Gen Xia, University of Delaware, USA
xianggen@gmail.com
Executive Editor
Jing Feng, fengjing@scichina.org