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Subpacketization in Coded Caching with Demand Privacy

Information Theory 2019-09-24 v1 math.IT

Abstract

Coded caching is a technique where we utilize multi-casting opportunities to reduce rate in cached networks. One limitation of coded caching schemes is that they reveal the demands of all users to their peers. In this work, we consider coded caching schemes that assure privacy for user demands with a particular focus on reducing subpacketization. For the 2-user, 2-file case, we present a new linear demand-private scheme with the lowest possible subpacketization. This is done by presenting the scheme explicitly and proving impossibility results under lower subpacketization. Additionally, when only partial privacy is required, we show that subpacketization can be significantly reduced when there are a large number of files.

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@article{arxiv.1909.10471,
  title  = {Subpacketization in Coded Caching with Demand Privacy},
  author = {Aravind V R and Pradeep Sarvepalli and Andrew Thangaraj},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.10471},
  year   = {2019}
}

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13 pages, 5 figures

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