B B A+B A+2B (4,2) MDS erasure code (any 2 suffice to recover) A B vs Erasure coding is introducing redundancy in an optimal way. Very useful in practice i.e. Reed-Solomon codes, Fountain Codes, (LT and Raptor)… Replication File or data object [3]A. G. Dimakis, P. G. Godfrey, Y. Wu, M. J. Wainwright, and K. Ramchandran,“Network coding for distributed storage systems,” in IEEE Trans. on Inform. Theory, vol. 56, pp. 4539 – 4551, Sep. 2010.