Conjecture on the effect of coded file size on optimal allocation

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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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