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Everything in Knoxville bleeds orange and white, even the regional area code. The Knoxville area code is a clever and subtle nod to the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. When you dial 865 on the ...

Abstract: Maximum distance separable (MDS) codes are commonly deployed in distributed storage systems as they provide the maximum failure tolerance for some given redundancy. The repair problem of MDS ...

New 483 area code launches Feb. 23, overlaying Alabama’s 334 region, including Montgomery, Auburn and Dothan; existing numbers stay the same, with mandatory 10-digit dialing. Alabama’s new 483 area ...

Abstract: We address two aspects of the repair problem of Reed-Solomon codes. First, we propose a new repair scheme for the RS codes constructed in [Tamo-Ye-Barg, IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, May 2019] ...