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We introduce a method for securely delivering a set of messages to a group of clients over a broadcast erasure channel where each client is interested in a distinct message. Each client is able to obtain its own message but not the others'.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-08 Shahriar Etemadi Tajbakhsh , Parastoo Sadeghi , Rodney Kennedy

In this paper, the scheduling of downlink file transmission in one cell with the assistance of cache nodes with finite cache space is studied. Specifically, requesting users arrive randomly and the base station (BS) reactively multicasts…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Bojie Lv , Rui Wang , Ying Cui , Yi Gong , Haisheng Tan

In applications of distributed storage systems to modern key-value stores, the stored data is highly dynamic due to frequent updates. The multi-version coding problem was formulated to study the cost of storing dynamic data in distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Ramy E. Ali , Viveck Cadambe , Jaime Llorca , Antonia Tulino

The correlation among the content distributed across a cache-aided broadcast network can be exploited to reduce the delivery load on the shared wireless link. This paper considers a two-user three-file network with correlated content, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Parisa Hassanzadeh , Antonia M. Tulino , Jaime Llorca , Elza Erkip

This paper studies an important rate allocation problem that arises in many networked and distributed systems: steady-state traffic rate allocation from multiple sources to multiple service nodes when both (i) the access-path delay on each…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Tamoghna Sarkar , Bhaskar Krishnamachari

Source coding with a side information "vending machine" is a recently proposed framework in which the statistical relationship between the side information and the source, instead of being given and fixed as in the classical Wyner-Ziv…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-11 Behzad Ahmadi , Osvaldo Simeone

Operators of networks covering large areas are confronted with demands from some of their customers who are virtual service providers. These providers may call for the connectivity service which fulfils the specificity of their services,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-05-04 Vincent Reinhard , Johanne Cohen , Joanna Tomasik , Dominique Barth , Marc-Antoine Weisser

The problem of reconstructing a source sequence with the presence of decoder side-information that is mis-synchronized to the source due to deletions is studied in a distributed source coding framework. Motivated by practical applications,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Nan Ma , Kannan Ramchandran , David Tse

Multicast remains a fundamental mechanism for scalable content distribution, yet existing approaches face critical limitations. Traditional multicast trees suffer from path redundancy and inefficient utilization of network resources, while…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Tomas Lestayo Martinez , Manuel Fernandez Veiega Veiga

The problem of network coding for multicasting a single source to multiple sinks has first been studied by Ahlswede, Cai, Li and Yeung in 2000, in which they have established the celebrated max-flow mini-cut theorem on non-physical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-04-13 Te Sun Han

Many data dissemination and publish-subscribe systems that guarantee the privacy and authenticity of the participants rely on symmetric key cryptography. An important problem in such a system is to maintain the shared group key as the group…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-04-28 Agnes Chan , Rajmohan Rajaraman , Zhifeng Sun , Feng Zhu

Cache-aided coded multicast leverages side information at wireless edge caches to efficiently serve multiple groupcast demands via common multicast transmissions, leading to load reductions that are proportional to the aggregate cache size.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Parisa Hassanzadeh , Antonia Tulino , Jaime Llorca , Elza Erkip

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

Directed graphs are widely used to model data flow and execution dependencies in streaming applications. This enables the utilization of graph partitioning algorithms for the problem of parallelizing computation for multiprocessor…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Orlando Moreira , Merten Popp , Christian Schulz

The model of a side information "vending machine" accounts for scenarios in which acquiring side information is costly and thus should be done efficiently. In this paper, the three-node cascade source coding problem is studied under the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-04-09 Behzad Ahmadi , Osvaldo Simeone , Chiranjib Choudhuri , Urbashi Mitra

Lossy coding of correlated sources over a multiple access channel (MAC) is studied. First, a joint source-channel coding scheme is presented when the decoder has correlated side information. Next, the optimality of separate source and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-18 Basak Guler , Deniz Gunduz , Aylin Yener

In this paper, we consider the problem of minimizing the total transmission cost for exchanging channel state information. We proposed a network coded cooperative data exchange scheme, such that the total transmission cost is minimized…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-12 Xiumin Wang , Wentu Song , Chau Yuen , Jing Li

The distributed linearly separable computation problem finds extensive applications across domains such as distributed gradient coding, distributed linear transform, real-time rendering, etc. In this paper, we investigate this problem in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Haoning Chen , Minquan Cheng , Zhenhao Huang , Youlong Wu

We consider a multicast scenario involving an ad hoc network of co-channel MIMO nodes in which a source node attempts to share a streaming message with all nodes in the network via some pre-defined multi-hop routing tree. The message is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-01-04 Feng Jiang , Jianqi Wang , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Multicast data transfers occur in many distributed systems and applications (e.g. IPTV, Grids, content delivery networks). Because of this, efficient multicast data distribution optimization techniques are required. In the first part of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2009-06-03 Mugurel Ionut Andreica , Eliana-Dina Tirsa , Nicolae Tapus