Outsourcing data on cloud storage services has already attracted great attention due to the prospect of rapid data growth and storing efciencies for customers. The coding-based cloud storage approach can ofer a more reliable and faster solution with less storage space in comparison with replication-based cloud storage. LT codes are the famous member of the rateless code family that can improve performance of storage systems utilizing good degree distributions. Since degree distribution plays a key role in LT codes performance, recently introduced Poisson robust soliton distribution (PRSD) and combined Poisson robust soliton distribution (CPRSD) motivate us to investigate LT code-based cloud storage system. So, we exploit LT codes with new degree distributions to provide lower average degree and higher decoding efciency, specifcally when receiving fewer encoding symbols, compared with popular degree distribution, robust soliton distribution (RSD). In this paper, we show that proposed cloud storage outperforms traditional ones in terms of storage space and robustness encountering unavailability of encoding symbols, due to compatible properties of PRSD and CPRSD with cloud storage essence. Furthermore, a modifed decoding process is presented based on required encoding symbols behavior to reduce data retrieval time. Numerical results confrm improvement of cloud storage performance.

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