BMCloud: Minimizing Repair Bandwidth and Maintenance Cost in Cloud Storage

Table 1

Notations of BMCloud.

Notations	Description
F-MSR chunk	A data unit in F-MSR code
Stripe	A coding group containing a collection of strips in E Code
Strip	A data unit of a stripe in E Code
E Code area	Two neighboring cloud nodes in one stripe
Encode matrix (EM)	Coefficient matrix in the F-MSR code
Extended F-MSR chunk	An code chunk after E Code encoding and extension