Conjecture on the effect of coded file size on optimal allocation

Let mm be the coded file size ratio, and let α\alpha be the allocation parameter maximizing the average service rate μs(α)\mu_s(\alpha). The claim applies to both the fixed-size access model and the probabilistic access model. Redundancy conjecture. For both fixed-size access and probabilistic access models, when mm is increasing, the optimal α\alpha for μs(α)\mu_s(\alpha) is also increasing. The paper reports that this pattern appears in all displayed figures, but the supplied text does not provide a proof, so the monotonicity remains conjectural.

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Pei Peng and Emina Soljanin, “On Distributed Storage Allocations of Large Files for Maximum Service Rate”, arXiv:1808.07545 (2018).

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