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Batch codes are of potential use for load balancing and private information retrieval in distributed data storage systems. Recently, a special case of batch codes, termed functional batch codes, was proposed in the literature. In functional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Kristiina Oksner , Henk D. L. Hollmann , Ago-Erik Riet , Vitaly Skachek

Coded caching is used to reduce network congestion during peak hours. A single server is connected to a set of users through a bottleneck link, which generally is assumed to be error-free. During non-peak hours, all the users have full…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-22 Nujoom Sageer Karat , Anoop Thomas , B. Sundar Rajan

Coded distributed computing (CDC) introduced by Li et al. in 2015 offers an efficient approach to trade computing power to reduce the communication load in general distributed computing frameworks such as MapReduce. For the more general…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Nicholas Woolsey , Rong-Rong Chen , Mingyue Ji

Coded caching is an efficient way to reduce network traffic congestion during peak hours by storing some content at the user's local cache memory without knowledge of later demands. The goal of coded caching design is to minimize the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Minquan Cheng , Dequan Liang , Ruizhong Wei

Spatially-coupled (SC) codes, known for their threshold saturation phenomenon and low-latency windowed decoding algorithms, are ideal for streaming applications. They also find application in various data storage systems because of their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Siyi Yang , Ahmed Hareedy , Shyam Venkatasubramanian , Robert Calderbank , Lara Dolecek

In an $(H,r)$ combination network, a single content library is delivered to ${H\choose r}$ users through deployed $H$ relays without cache memories, such that each user with local cache memories is simultaneously served by a different…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Minquan Cheng , Yiqun Li , Xi Zhong , Ruizhong Wei

Many code families such as low-density parity-check codes, fractional repetition codes, batch codes and private information retrieval codes with low storage overhead rely on the use of combinatorial block designs or derivatives thereof. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Hoang Dau , Olgica Milenkovic

We examine the problem of allocating a given total storage budget in a distributed storage system for maximum reliability. A source has a single data object that is to be coded and stored over a set of storage nodes; it is allowed to store…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Derek Leong , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Tracey Ho

The perfect space-time block codes (STBCs) are based on four design criteria - full-rateness, non-vanishing determinant, cubic shaping and uniform average transmitted energy per antenna per time slot. Cubic shaping and transmission at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-12-12 K. Pavan Srinath , B. Sundar Rajan

We consider the canonical {\em shared link network} formed by a source node, hosting a library of $m$ information messages (files), connected via a noiseless common link to $n$ destination nodes (users), each with a cache of size M files.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-12 Mingyue Ji , Antonia M. Tulino , Jaime Llorca , Giuseppe Caire

In recent years, complementary sequence sets have found many important applications in multi-carrier code-division multiple-access (MC-CDMA) systems for their good correlation properties. In this paper, we propose a construction, which can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Zhengchun Zhou , Fangrui Liu , Avik Ranjan Adhikary , Pingzhi Fan

We investigate the service-rate region (SRR) of distributed storage systems that employ linear codes. We focus on systems where each server stores one code symbol, and a user recovers a data symbol by accessing any of its recovery groups,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Hoang Ly , Emina Soljanin

Batched network coding is a variation of random linear network coding which has low computational and storage costs. In order to adapt to random fluctuations in the number of erasures in individual batches, it is not optimal to recode and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Hoover H. F. Yin , Bin Tang , Ka Hei Ng , Shenghao Yang , Xishi Wang , Qiaoqiao Zhou

The concept of group divisible codes, a generalization of group divisible designs with constant block size, is introduced in this paper. This new class of codes is shown to be useful in recursive constructions for constant-weight and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-07-18 Yeow Meng Chee , Gennian Ge , Alan C. H. Ling

In this article, we explore the combinatorics of balanced collections. A collection of subsets of the set $[n] = \{1, \dots, n\}$ is called \emph{balanced} if the relative interior of the convex hull of the corresponding characteristic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Mikhail V. Bludov , Nikolai K. Zuev

Modern dense Flash memory devices operate at very low error rates, which require powerful error correcting coding (ECC) techniques. An emerging class of graph-based ECC techniques that has broad applications is the class of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Ahmed Hareedy , Homa Esfahanizadeh , Lara Dolecek

Recently a powerful class of rate-compatible serially concatenated convolutional codes (SCCCs) have been proposed based on minimizing analytical upper bounds on the error probability in the error floor region. Here this class of codes is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Alexandre Graell i Amat , Fredrik Brannstrom , Lars K. Rasmussen

Coded distributed computing introduced by Li et al. in 2015 is an efficient approach to trade computing power to reduce the communication load in general distributed computing frameworks such as MapReduce. In particular, Li et al. show that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Nicholas Woolsey , Rong-Rong Chen , Mingyue Ji

A centralized coded caching system, consisting of a server delivering N popular files, each of size F bits, to K users through an error-free shared link, is considered. It is assumed that each user is equipped with a local cache memory with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-15 Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri , Deniz Gunduz

In this paper, we study shared cache coded caching (SC-CC): a set of caches serves a larger set of users; each user access one cache, and a cache may serve many users. For this problem, under uncoded placement, Parrinello, \"Unsal, and Elia…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Niladri Das , B. Sundar Rajan