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This paper studies a special class of multicast index coding problems where a sender transmits messages to multiple receivers, each with some side information. Here, each receiver knows a unique message a priori, and there is no restriction…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-12-04 Lawrence Ong , Chin Keong Ho

We consider the following \textit{network computation problem}. In an acyclic network, there are multiple source nodes, each generating multiple messages, and there are multiple sink nodes, each demanding a function of the source messages.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-05 Anindya Gupta , B. Sundar Rajan

In this paper, a general algorithm is proposed for rate analysis and code design of linear index coding problems. Specifically a solution for minimum rank matrix completion problem over finite fields representing the linear index coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-14 Homa Esfahanizadeh , Farshad Lahouti , Babak Hassibi

An optimal linear coding solution for index coding problem is established. Instead of network coding approach by focus on graph theoric and algebraic methods a linear coding program for solving both unicast and groupcast index coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-08 Pouya Pezeshkpour

This paper proposes a novel achievable scheme for the index problem and applies it to the caching problem. Index coding and caching are noiseless broadcast channel problems where receivers have message side information.In the index coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-24 Kai Wan , Daniela Tuninetti , Pablo Piantanida

We study the fundamental problem of index coding under an additional privacy constraint that requires each receiver to learn nothing more about the collection of messages beyond its demanded messages from the server and what is available to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Varun Narayanan , Jithin Ravi , Vivek K. Mishra , Bikash Kumar Dey , Nikhil Karamchandani , Vinod M. Prabhakaran

The index coding problem is a problem of efficient broadcasting with side-information. We look at the uniprior index coding problem, in which the receivers have disjoint side-information symbols and arbitrary demand sets. Previous work has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Vijaya Kumar Mareedu , Prasad Krishnan

Index coding, a source coding problem over broadcast channels, has been a subject of both theoretical and practical interest since its introduction (by Birk and Kol, 1998). In short, the problem can be defined as follows: there is an input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Abhishek Agarwal , Larkin Flodin , Arya Mazumdar

In contrast to the network coding problem wherein the sinks in a network demand subsets of the source messages, in a network computation problem the sinks demand functions of the source messages. Similarly, in the functional index coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-18 Anindya Gupta , B. Sundar Rajan

We focus on the following instance of an index coding problem, where a set of receivers are required to decode multiple messages, whilst each knows one of the messages a priori. In particular, here we consider a generalized setting where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-13 Lawrence Ong , Fabian Lim , Chin Keong Ho

An index coding scheme in which the source (transmitter) transmits binary symbols over a wireless fading channel is considered. Index codes with the transmitter using minimum number of transmissions are known as optimal index codes.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-14 Anoop Thomas , Kavitha R. , Chandramouli A. , B. Sundar Rajan

In this work, we study the problem of index coding from graph homomorphism perspective. We show that the minimum broadcast rate of an index coding problem for different variations of the problem such as non-linear, scalar, and vector index…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-09-01 Javad B. Ebrahimi , Mahdi Jafari Siavoshani

The index coding problem involves a sender with K messages to be transmitted across a broadcast channel, and a set of receivers each of which demands a subset of the K messages while having prior knowledge of a different subset as side…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Lakshmi Natarajan , Yi Hong , Emanuele Viterbo

We consider a wireless broadcast station that transmits packets to multiple users. The packet requests for each user may overlap, and some users may already have certain packets. This presents a problem of broadcasting in the presence of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-08-10 Michael J. Neely , Arash Saber Tehrani , Zhen Zhang

An index code for broadcast channel with receiver side information is locally decodable if each receiver can decode its demand by observing only a subset of the transmitted codeword symbols instead of the entire codeword. Local decodability…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Lakshmi Natarajan , Prasad Krishnan , V. Lalitha , Hoang Dau

The problem of two-sender unicast index coding consists of two senders and a set of receivers. Each receiver demands a unique message and possesses some of the messages demanded by other receivers as its side-information. Every demanded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Chinmayananda Arunachala , Vaneet Aggarwal , B. Sundar Rajan

The two-sender unicast index coding problem consists of finding optimal coded transmissions from the two senders which collectively know the messages demanded by all the receivers. Each receiver demands a unique message. One important class…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Chinmayananda Arunachala , Vaneet Aggarwal , B. Sundar Rajan

This paper considers vector network coding solutions based on rank-metric codes and subspace codes. The main result of this paper is that vector solutions can significantly reduce the required alphabet size compared to the optimal scalar…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Tuvi Etzion , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

Deterministic linear network coding (DLNC) is an important family of network coding techniques for wireless packet broadcast. In this paper, we show that DLNC is strongly related to and can be effectively studied using matroid theory…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-04 Mingchao Yu , Parastoo Sadeghi , Neda Aboutorab

This work studies linear interference networks, both wired and wireless, with no channel state information at the transmitters (CSIT) except a coarse knowledge of the end-to-end one-hop topology of the network that only allows a distinction…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Syed A. Jafar