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Differential privacy and sublinear algorithms are both rapidly emerging algorithmic themes in times of big data analysis. Although recent works have shown the existence of differentially private sublinear algorithms for many problems…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Jeremiah Blocki , Hendrik Fichtenberger , Elena Grigorescu , Tamalika Mukherjee

This paper studies the secrecy rate maximization problem of a secure wireless communication system, in the presence of multiple eavesdroppers. The security of the communication link is enhanced through cooperative jamming, with the help of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-13 Kanapathippillai Cumanan , George C. Alexandropoulos , Zhgiuo Ding , George K. Karagiannidis

Formulate the problem as follows. Split a file into n pieces so that it can be restored without any m parts (1<=m<=n). Such problems are called problems secret sharing. There exists a set of methods for solving such problems, but they all…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-09-10 Oleg Titov

In this paper, the problem of providing privacy to users requesting data over a network from a distributed storage system (DSS) is considered. The DSS, which is considered as the multi-terminal destination of the network from the user's…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Razane Tajeddine , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Camilla Hollanti

Coded caching schemes on broadcast networks with user caches help to offload traffic from peak times to off-peak times by prefetching information from the server to the users during off-peak times and thus serving the users more efficiently…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Hari Hara Suthan C , Ishani Chugh , Prasad Krishnan

In todays security landscape, every user wants to access large amounts of data with confidentiality and authorization. To maintain confidentiality, various researchers have proposed several techniques. However, to access secure data,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Keshav Sinha , Sumitra , Richa Kumari , Akashdeep Bhardwaj , Shawon Rahman

We consider the setting of a master server who possesses confidential data (genomic, medical data, etc.) and wants to run intensive computations on it, as part of a machine learning algorithm for example. The master wants to distribute…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Rawad Bitar , Parimal Parag , Salim El Rouayheb

In Pliable Private Information Retrieval (PPIR) with a single server, messages are partitioned into $\Gamma$ non-overlapping classes. The user wants to retrieve a message from its desired class without revealing the identity of the desired…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Megha Rayer , Charul Rajput , B. Sundar Rajan

We consider the problem of data storage in a geographically distributed (or geo-distributed) network of servers (or nodes) where inter-node communication incurs certain round-trip delays. Every node serves a set of users who can request any…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-11 Srivathsa Acharya , P. Vijay Kumar , Viveck R. Cadambe

This work presents a new way of exploiting non-uniform file popularity in coded caching networks. Focusing on a fully-connected fully-interfering wireless setting with multiple cache-enabled transmitters and receivers, we show how…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Eleftherios Lampiris , Berksan Serbetci , Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos , Giuseppe Caire , Petros Elia

Pliable index coding considers a server with m messages, and n clients where each has as side information a subset of the messages. We seek to minimize the number of transmissions the server should make, so that each client receives (any)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-22 Linqi Song , Christina Fragouli

The iterative consensus problem requires a set of processes or agents with different initial values, to interact and update their states to eventually converge to a common value. Protocols solving iterative consensus serve as building…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-08-10 Zhenqi Huang , Sayan Mitra , Geir Dullerud

This work considers the problem of privately outsourcing the computation of a matrix product over a finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$ to $N$ helper servers. These servers are considered to be honest but curious, i.e., they behave according to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Jie Li , Okko Makkonen , Camilla Hollanti , Oliver Gnilke

We study two fundamental problems in communication, Document Exchange (DE) and Error Correcting Code (ECC). In the first problem, two parties hold two strings, and one party tries to learn the other party's string through communication. In…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Kuan Cheng , Xin Li

This paper focuses on showing time-message trade-offs in distributed algorithms for fundamental problems such as leader election, broadcast, spanning tree (ST), minimum spanning tree (MST), minimum cut, and many graph verification problems.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Robert Gmyr , Gopal Pandurangan

We study Private Information Retrieval with Side Information (PIR-SI) in the single-server multi-message setting. In this setting, a user wants to download $D$ messages from a database of $K\geq D$ messages, stored on a single server,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Brenden Garcia , Swanand Kadhe , Salim El Rouayheb , Alex Sprintson

This paper establishes the fundamental limits of a multi-access system where multiple users communicate to a legitimate receiver in presence of an external warden. Only a specific subset of the users, called covert users, needs their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Abdelaziz Bounhar , Mireille Sarkiss , Michèle Wigger

Privacy-preserving distributed processing has received considerable attention recently. The main purpose of these algorithms is to solve certain signal processing tasks over a network in a decentralised fashion without revealing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-14 Sebastian O. Jordan , Qiongxiu Li , Richard Heusdens

The problem of simultaneously generating a secret key (SK) and private key (PK) pair among three terminals via public discussion is investigated, in which each terminal observes a component of correlated sources. All three terminals are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-28 Huishuai Zhang , Lifeng Lai , Yingbin Liang , Hua Wang

Exchange of secret keys over public channels based on neural synchronization using a variety of learning rules offer an appealing alternative to number theory based cryptography algorithms. Though several forms of attacks are possible on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-02-19 Sandip Chakraborty , Jiban Dalal , Bikramjit Sarkar , Debaprasad Mukherjee