Optimal binary linear locally repairable codes with disjoint repair groups

Abstract

In recent years, several classes of codes are introduced to provide some fault-tolerance and guarantee system reliability in distributed storage systems, among which locally repairable codes (LRCs for short) play an important role. However, most known constructions are over large fields with sizes close to the code length, which lead to the systems computationally expensive. Due to this, binary LRCs are of interest in practice. In this paper, we focus on binary linear LRCs with disjoint repair groups. We first derive an explicit bound for the dimension k of such codes, which can be served as a generalization of the bounds given in [11, 36, 37]. We also give several new constructions of binary LRCs with minimum distance $d = 6$ based on weakly independent sets and partial spreads, which are optimal with respect to our newly obtained bound. In particular, for locality $r\in \{2,3\}$ and minimum distance $d = 6$, we obtain the desired optimal binary linear LRCs with disjoint repair groups for almost all parameters.