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This paper deals with a universal coding problem for a certain kind of multiterminal source coding network called a generalized complementary delivery network. In this network, messages from multiple correlated sources are jointly encoded,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-04-02 Akisato Kimura , Tomohiko Uyematsu , Shigeaki Kuzuoka , Shun Watanabe

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

The index coding problem is studied from an interference alignment perspective, providing new results as well as new insights into, and generalizations of, previously known results. An equivalence is established between multiple unicast…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-08 Hamed Maleki , Viveck R. Cadambe , Syed A. Jafar

We study and compare three coded schemes for single-server wireless broadcast of multiple description coded content to heterogeneous users. The users (sink nodes) demand different number of descriptions over links with different packet loss…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-05-22 Yao Li , Emina Soljanin , Predrag Spasojevic

The problem of finding network codes for general connections is inherently difficult in capacity constrained networks. Resource minimization for general connections with network coding is further complicated. Existing methods for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-05 Ying Cui , Muriel Médard , Fan Lai , Edmund Yeh , Douglas Leith , Ken Duffy , Dhaivat Pandya

This paper considers the problem of network coding for multiple unicast connections in networks represented by directed acyclic graphs. The concept of interference alignment, traditionally used in interference networks, is extended to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-08-03 Abhik Das , Sriram Vishwanath , Syed Jafar , Athina Markopoulou

Increasing network utilization is often considered as the holy grail of communications. In this article, the concept of sub-rate coding and decoding in the framework of linear network coding (LNC) is discussed for single-source…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Ben Grinboim , Itay Shrem , Ofer Amrani

We consider the problem of establishing minimum-cost multicast connections over coded packet networks, i.e. packet networks where the contents of outgoing packets are arbitrary, causal functions of the contents of received packets. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Desmond S. Lun , Niranjan Ratnakar , Muriel Medard , Ralf Koetter , David R. Karger , Tracey Ho , Ebad Ahmed , Fang Zhao

A dynamic flow network consists of a directed graph, where nodes called sources represent locations of evacuees, and nodes called sinks represent locations of evacuation facilities. Each source and each sink are given supply representing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Yuya Higashikawa , Ayano Nishii , Junichi Teruyama , Yuki Tokuni

We study the single pair capacitated network design problem and the budget constrained max flow problem on undirected series-parallel graphs. These problems were well studied on directed series-parallel graphs, but little is known in the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Ishan Bansal , Ryan Mao , Avhan Mishra

In this paper we show that the Index Coding problem captures several important properties of the more general Network Coding problem. An instance of the Index Coding problem includes a server that holds a set of information messages…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-05-12 Salim El Rouayheb , Alex Sprintson , Costas Georghiades

We consider the problem of network coding across multiple unicasts. We give, for wired and wireless networks, efficient polynomial time algorithms for finding optimal network codes within the class of network codes restricted to XOR coding…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Tracey Ho

The multicommodity flow problem is NP-hard already for two commodities over bipartite graphs. Nonetheless, using our recent theory of n-fold integer programming and extensions developed herein, we are able to establish the surprising…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-01-18 Raymond Hemmecke , Shmuel Onn , Robert Weismantel

We consider the capacity problem for wireless networks. Networks are modeled as random unit-disk graphs, and the capacity problem is formulated as one of finding the maximum value of a multicommodity flow. In this paper, we develop a proof…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Christina Peraki , Sergio D. Servetto

We are interested in how to best communicate a real valued source to a number of destinations (sinks) over a network with capacity constraints in a collective fidelity metric over all the sinks, a problem which we call joint network-source…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Nima Sarshar , Xiaolin Wu

The advent of network coding presents promising opportunities in many areas of communication and networking. It has been recently shown that network coding technique can significantly increase the overall throughput of wireless networks by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Salim Y. El Rouayheb , Mohammad Asad R. Chaudhry , Alex Sprintson

We consider a wireless network with a set of transmitter-receiver pairs, or links, that share a common channel, and address the problem of emptying finite traffic volume from the transmitters in minimum time. This, so called, minimum-time…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Qing He , Vangelis Angelakis , Anthony Ephremides , Di Yuan

Many complex questions in biology, physics, and mathematics can be mapped to the graph isomorphism problem and the closely related graph automorphism problem. In particular, these problems appear in the context of network visualization,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-11-14 Charo I. Del Genio , Thilo Gross

In this paper we give network coding algorithms for multi-layered video streaming. The problem is motivated by video broadcasting in a communication network to users with varying demands. We give a polynomial time algorithm for deciding…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Erika R. Bérczi-Kovács , Zoltán Király

Network flows over time are a fascinating generalization of classical (static) network flows, introducing an element of time. They naturally model problems where travel and transmission are not instantaneous and flow may vary over time. Not…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Martin Skutella