Robust Private Information Retrieval from Coded Systems with Byzantine and Colluding Servers

02/11/2018

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by   Razane Tajeddine, et al.

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A private information retrieval (PIR) scheme on coded storage systems with colluding, byzantine, and non-responsive servers is presented. Furthermore, the scheme can also be used for symmetric PIR in the same setting. An explicit scheme using an [n,k] generalized Reed-Solomon storage code is designed, protecting against t-collusion and handling up to b byzantine and r non-responsive servers, when n≥ n'= (ν +1) k+t+2b+r-1, for some integer ν≥ 1. This scheme achieves a PIR rate of 1-k+2b+t+r-1/n'. In the case where the capacity is known, namely when k=1, it is asymptotically capacity achieving as the number of files grows.