Publications

Journals

"Optimal Exact-Regenerating Codes for Distributed Storage at the MSR and MBR Points via a Product-Matrix Construction"

K. V. Rashmi, Nihar B. Shah and P. Vijay Kumar
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, August 2011.
"Distributed Storage Codes with Repair-by-Transfer and Non-achievability of Interior Points on the Storage-Bandwidth Tradeoff"

Nihar B. Shah, K. V. Rashmi, P. Vijay Kumar and Kannan Ramchandran
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, March 2012.
"Interference Alignment in Regenerating Codes for Distributed Storage: Necessity and Code Constructions"

Nihar B. Shah, K. V. Rashmi, P. Vijay Kumar and Kannan Ramchandran
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, April 2012.

Conferences

"A Solution to the Network Challenges of Data Recovery in Erasure-coded Distributed Storage Systems: A Study on the Facebook Warehouse Cluster"

K. V. Rashmi, Nihar B. Shah, Dikang Gu, Hairong Kuang, Dhruba Borthakur, and Kannan Ramchandran
USENIX HotStorage, June 2013.

(Slides) (Video)
"A Piggybacking Design Framework for Read-and Download-efficient Distributed Storage Codes"

K. V. Rashmi, Nihar B. Shah and Kannan Ramchandran
IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), July 2013.

(Slides)
"Efficient and Distributed Secret Sharing in General Network"

Nihar B. Shah, K. V. Rashmi, and Kannan Ramchandran
IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), July 2013.

(Slides) (Poster)
"Regenerating Codes for Errors and Erasures in Distributed Storage"

K. V. Rashmi, Nihar B. Shah, Kannan Ramchandran, and P. Vijay Kumar
IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), July 2012.

(Slides)
"Information-theoretically Secure Regenerating Codes for Distributed Storage"

Nihar B. Shah, K. V. Rashmi and P. Vijay Kumar
Proc. IEEE Globecom, Houston, Dec. 2011.
"Enabling Node Repair in Any Erasure Code for Distributed Storage"

K. V. Rashmi, Nihar B. Shah and P. Vijay Kumar
Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), St. Petersburg, 2011.
"A Flexible Class of Regenerating Codes for Distributed Storage"

Nihar B. Shah, K. V. Rashmi and P. Vijay Kumar
Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Austin, June 2010.
"Explicit and Optimal Exact-Regenerating Codes for the Minimum-Bandwidth Point in Distributed Storage"

K. V. Rashmi, Nihar B. Shah, P. Vijay Kumar and Kannan Ramchandran
Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Austin, June 2010.
"Regenerating Codes for Distributed Storage Networks" (Invited)

Nihar B. Shah, K. V. Rashmi, P. Vijay Kumar and Kannan Ramchandran
Proc. International Workshop on the Arithmetic of Finite Fields (WAIFI), Istanbul, June 2010.
"Explicit and Optimal Codes for Distributed Storage" (Invited)

K. V. Rashmi, Nihar B. Shah, P. Vijay Kumar and Kannan Ramchandran
Proc. IEEE Information Theory and Applications Workshop (ITA) , San Diego, Feb. 2010.
"Explicit Codes Minimizing Repair Bandwidth for Distributed Storage"

Nihar B. Shah, K. V. Rashmi, P. Vijay Kumar and Kannan Ramchandran
Proc. IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Cairo, Jan.2010.
"Explicit Construction of Optimal Exact Regenerating Codes for Distributed Storage"

K. V. Rashmi, Nihar B. Shah, P. Vijay Kumar and Kannan Ramchandran
Proc. Allerton Conf., Urbana-Champaign, Sep.2009.
"Interference Alignment as a Tool in Network Coding as Applied to Distributed Storage"

K. V. Rashmi, Nihar B. Shah, P. Vijay Kumar and Kannan Ramchandran
Proc. National Conference on Communications (NCC), Chennai, Jan. 2010.

"Explicit Codes Uniformly Reducing Repair Bandwidth in Distributed Storage"

Nihar B. Shah, K. V. Rashmi, P. Vijay Kumar and Kannan Ramchandran
Proc. National Conference on Communications (NCC), Chennai, Jan. 2010.

Tutorial Articles

"Network Coding"
K. V. Rashmi, N. B. Shah, and P. Vijay Kumar, in Resonance , vol. 15, no. 7, pp. 604-621.
(Resonance is a journal of science education published by the Indian Academy of Sciences)