Lower Bounds on Bandwidth Requirements of Regenerating Code Parameter Scaling in Distributed Storage Systems
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Abstract
In a fault-tolerant Distributed Storage System (DSS) that depends on regenerating codes, there may be a variety of motivations for the system or the user to switch from one set of code parameters ( n, k, d, α, β) to another. For example, the user may change their demand on reliability or the system may want to change the configuration due to implementation challenges, cost considerations and issues related to availability/ accessibility of geographically-distributed nodes. This can be managed by a well-designed DSS capable of dynamically scaling the parameters. In this letter, we present lower bounds on the bandwidth requirements for moving from a regenerating code configuration to another. In case of functional repair, our lower bounds are achievable, which helps the system designers identify the minimum-cost scaling strategy.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
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| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.038 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.002 |
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