Before revision:  Coding can help boost the service rate region , that is, increase the overall volume of data access requests that can be handled by the system . The goal of this paper is to postulate the service rate region as an important consideration in the design of erasure coded distributed systems.
After revision:  Coding can help boost the service rate region , that is, increase the overall volume of data access requests that the system can handle. This paper aims to postulate the service rate region as an important consideration in the design of erasure coded distributed systems.