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This paper considers heterogeneous coded caching where the users have unequal distortion requirements. The server is connected to the users via an error-free multicast link and designs the users' cache sizes subject to a total memory…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-28 Abdelrahman M. Ibrahim , Ahmed A. Zewail , Aylin Yener

A group of mutually trusting clients outsources a computation service to a remote server, which they do not fully trust and that may be subject to attacks. The clients do not communicate with each other and would like to verify the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Christian Cachin , Olga Ohrimenko

Coded computing has emerged as a promising framework for tackling significant challenges in large-scale distributed computing, including the presence of slow, faulty, or compromised servers. In this approach, each worker node processes a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Parsa Moradi , Behrooz Tahmasebi , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali

Coded caching is a technique that leverages locally cached contents at the end users to reduce the network's peak-time communication load. Coded caching has been shown to achieve significant performance gains with a centralized placement…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Yinbin Ma , Daniela Tuninetti

In this paper we determine the delivery time for a multi-server coded caching problem when the cache size of each user is small. We propose an achievable scheme based on coded cache content placement, and employ zero-forcing techniques at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-22 Seyed Pooya Shariatpanahi , Babak Hossein Khalaj

Cache-aided content delivery is studied in a multi-server system with $P$ servers and $K$ users, each equipped with a local cache memory. In the delivery phase, each user connects randomly to any $\rho$ out of $P$ servers. Thanks to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Nitish Mital , Deniz Gunduz , Cong Ling

The enforcement of security policies in outsourced environments is still an open challenge for policy-based systems. On the one hand, taking the appropriate security decision requires access to the policies. However, if such access is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-06-21 Muhammad Rizwan Asghar , Mihaela Ion , Giovanni Russello , Bruno Crispo

Inexpensive cloud services, such as serverless computing, are often vulnerable to straggling nodes that increase end-to-end latency for distributed computation. We propose and implement simple yet principled approaches for straggler…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Vipul Gupta , Dominic Carrano , Yaoqing Yang , Vaishaal Shankar , Thomas Courtade , Kannan Ramchandran

The capacity of caching networks has received considerable attention in the past few years. A particularly studied setting is the shared link caching network, in which a single source with access to a file library communicates with multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-25 Mingyue Ji , Antonia Tulino , Jaime Llorca , Giuseppe Caire

Current trends in technology, such as cloud computing, allow outsourcing the storage, backup, and archiving of data. This provides efficiency and flexibility, but also poses new risks for data security. It in particular became crucial to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Christian Weinert , Denise Demirel , Martín Vigil , Matthias Geihs , Johannes Buchmann

This work presents ContractChecker, a Blockchain-based security protocol for verifying the storage consistency between the mutually distrusting cloud provider and clients. Unlike existing protocols, the ContractChecker uniquely delegates…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Kai Li , Yuzhe Tang , Beom Heyn Kim , Jianliang Xu

Modern program verifiers use logic-based encodings of the verification problem that are discharged by a back end reasoning engine. However, instances of such encodings for large programs can quickly overwhelm these back end solvers. Hence,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-07-18 Peter Schrammel

The present paper introduces a practical protocol for provably secure, outsourced computation. Our protocol minimizes overhead for verification by requiring solutions to withstand an interactive game between a prover and challenger. For…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Sanjay Jain , Prateek Saxena , Frank Stephan , Jason Teutsch

We introduce a protocol called ENCORE which simultaneously compresses and encrypts data in a one-pass process that can be implemented efficiently and possesses a number of desirable features as a streaming encoder/decoder. Motivated by the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Joshua Cooper , Grant Fickes

In a secure coded caching system, a central server balances the traffic flow between peak and off-peak periods by distributing some public data to the users' caches in advance. Meanwhile, these data are securely protected against the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Kangning Ma , Shuo Shao

We consider the problem of Robust Dynamic Coded Distributed Storage (RDCDS) with partially storage constrained servers where the goal is to enable robust (resilient to server dropouts) and efficient (as measured by the communication costs)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Chen Zhao , Haobo Jia , Zhuqing Jia

The storage capacity of a graph measures the maximum amount of information that can be stored across its vertices, such that the information at any vertex can be recovered from the information stored at its neighborhood. The study of this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Ishay Haviv

Verification of concurrent data structures is one of the most challenging tasks in software verification. The topic has received considerable attention over the course of the last decade. Nevertheless, human-driven techniques remain…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-11-12 Roland Meyer , Sebastian Wolff

Searchable symmetric encryption (SSE) allows the data owner to outsource an encrypted database to a remote server in a private manner while maintaining the ability for selectively search. So far, most existing solutions focus on an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Shengshan Hu , Chengjun Cai , Qian Wang , Cong Wang , Minghui Li , Zhibo Wang , Dengpan Ye

Motivated by applications of distributed storage systems to cloud-based key-value stores, the multi-version coding problem has been recently formulated to efficiently store frequently updated data in asynchronous decentralized storage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Ramy E. Ali , Viveck Cadambe