English

Private Information Retrieval Schemes Using Cyclic Codes

Information Theory 2023-05-12 v2 math.IT

Abstract

A Private Information Retrieval (PIR) scheme allows users to retrieve data from a database without disclosing to the server information about the identity of the data retrieved. A coded storage in a distributed storage system with colluding servers is considered in this work, namely the approach in [tt-private information retrieval schemes using transitive codes, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, vol. 65, no. 4, pp. 2107-2118, 2019] which considers a storage and retrieval code with a transitive group and provides binary PIR schemes with the highest possible rate. Reed-Muller codes were considered in [tt-private information retrieval schemes using transitive codes, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, vol. 65, no. 4, pp. 2107-2118, 2019]. In this work, we consider cyclic codes and we show that binary PIR schemes using cyclic codes provide a larger constellation of PIR parameters and they may outperform the ones coming from Reed-Muller codes in some cases.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2111.09060,
  title  = {Private Information Retrieval Schemes Using Cyclic Codes},
  author = {Şeyma Bodur and Edgar Martínez-Moro and Diego Ruano},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.09060},
  year   = {2023}
}
R2 v1 2026-06-24T07:42:00.908Z