Capacity of Wireless Distributed Storage Systems with Broadcast Repair
Ping Hu, Chi Wan Sung, Terence H. Chan

TL;DR
This paper introduces broadcast repair for wireless distributed storage, leveraging wireless broadcast features to improve repair efficiency and outperform cooperative repair in terms of storage and bandwidth tradeoffs.
Contribution
It models wireless storage as a multicast network, deriving the fundamental tradeoff between storage and repair-transmission bandwidth, and demonstrates broadcast repair's superiority over cooperative repair.
Findings
Broadcast repair outperforms cooperative repair in efficiency.
A new measure called repair-transmission bandwidth is introduced.
Fundamental tradeoff between storage and repair bandwidth is characterized.
Abstract
In wireless distributed storage systems, storage nodes are connected by wireless channels, which are broadcast in nature. This paper exploits this unique feature to design an efficient repair mechanism, called broadcast repair, for wireless distributed storage systems in the presence of multiple-node failures. Due to the broadcast nature of wireless transmission, we advocate a new measure on repair performance called repair-transmission bandwidth. In contrast to repair bandwidth, which measures the average number of packets downloaded by a newcomer to replace a failed node, repair-transmission bandwidth measures the average number of packets transmitted by helper nodes per failed node. A fundamental study on the storage capacity of wireless distributed storage systems with broadcast repair is conducted by modeling the storage system as a multicast network and analyzing the minimum cut…
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Taxonomy
TopicsAdvanced Data Storage Technologies · Caching and Content Delivery · Distributed systems and fault tolerance
