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TR14-127 | 11th October 2014 03:02

#### Batch Codes through Dense Graphs without Short Cycles

TR14-127
Authors: Alexandros G. Dimakis, Anna Gal, Ankit Singh Rawat, Zhao Song
Publication: 11th October 2014 04:07
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Abstract:

Consider a large database of $n$ data items that need to be stored using $m$ servers.
We study how to encode information so that a large number $k$ of read requests can be performed \textit{in parallel} while the rate remains constant (and ideally approaches one).
This problem is equivalent to the design of multiset Batch Codes introduced by Ishai, Kushilevitz, Ostrovsky and Sahai~\cite{batch}.

We give families of multiset batch codes
with asymptotically optimal rates of the form $1-1/\text{poly}(k)$
and a number of servers $m$ scaling polynomially in the number of read
requests $k$.
An advantage of our batch code constructions over most previously
known multiset batch codes is explicit and deterministic decoding
algorithms and asymptotically optimal fault tolerance.

Our main technical innovation is a graph-theoretic method of designing
multiset batch codes using dense bipartite graphs with no small cycles.
We modify prior graph constructions of dense, high-girth graphs
to obtain our batch code results.
We achieve close to optimal tradeoffs between the parameters
for bipartite graph based batch codes.

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