noncolluding nodes where data is stored using a non maximum distance separable (MDS)
linear code. It was recently shown that if data is stored using a particular class of non-MDS
linear codes, the MDS-PIR capacity, ie, the maximum possible PIR rate for MDS-coded
DSSs, can be achieved. For this class of codes, we prove that the PIR capacity is indeed
equal to the MDS-PIR capacity, giving the first family of non-MDS codes for which the PIR …