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Coded distributed computing (CDC), proposed by Li \emph{et al.}, offers significant potential for reducing the communication load in MapReduce computing systems. In cascaded CDC with $K$ nodes, $N$ input files, and $Q$ output functions,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Mingming Zhang , Youlong Wu , Minquan Cheng , Dianhua Wu

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

Caching at the wireless edge nodes is a promising way to boost the spatial and spectral efficiency, for the sake of alleviating networks from content-related traffic. Coded caching originally introduced by Maddah-Ali and Niesen…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Kai Wan , Minquan Cheng , Mari Kobayashi , Giuseppe Caire

Coded caching is a technique that leverages locally cached contents at the users to reduce the network's peak-time communication load. Coded caching achieves significant performance gains compared to uncoded caching schemes and is thus a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Yinbin Ma , Daniela Tuninetti

Content delivery networks store information distributed across multiple servers, so as to balance the load and avoid unrecoverable losses in case of node or disk failures. Coded caching has been shown to be a useful technique which can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Tianqiong Luo , Vaneet Aggarwal , Borja Peleato

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

Content delivery networks often employ caching to reduce transmission rates from the central server to the end users. Recently, the technique of coded caching was introduced whereby coding in the caches and coded transmission signals from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-16 Hooshang Ghasemi , Aditya Ramamoorthy

Maddah-Ali and Niesen's original coded caching scheme for shared-link broadcast networks is now known to be optimal to within a factor two, and has been applied to other types of networks. For practical reasons, this paper considers that a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-06 Kai Wan , Mingyue Ji , Pablo Piantanida , Daniela Tuninetti

In this work, we study a noiseless broadcast link serving $K$ users whose requests arise from a library of $N$ files. Every user is equipped with a cache of size $M$ files each. It has been shown that by splitting all the files into packets…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-24 Karthikeyan Shanmugam , Mingyue Ji , Antonia M. Tulino , Jaime Llorca , Alexandros G. Dimakis

Coded caching systems have been widely studied to reduce the data transmission during the peak traffic time. In practice, two important parameters of a coded caching system should be considered, i.e., the rate which is the maximum amount of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Minquan Cheng , Jie Li , Xiaohu Tang , Ruizhong Wei

We consider the problem of designing decentralized schemes for coded caching. In this problem there are $K$ users each caching $M$ files out of a library of $N$ total files. The question is to minimize $R$, the number of broadcast…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Yitao Chen , Karthikeyan Shanmugam , Alexandros G. Dimakis

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

This paper studies a special class of multicast index coding problems where a sender transmits messages to multiple receivers, each with some side information. Here, each receiver knows a unique message a priori, and there is no restriction…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-12-04 Lawrence Ong , Chin Keong Ho

Coded Caching is an efficient technique to reduce peak hour network traffic. One limitation of known coded caching schemes is that the demands of all users are revealed to their peers in the delivery phase. Schemes that assure privacy for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-04 K. K. Krishnan Namboodiri , B. Sundar Rajan

The work identifies the fundamental limits of coded caching when the K receiving users share {\Lambda}$\leq$ K helper-caches, each assisting an arbitrary number of different users. The main result is the derivation of the exact optimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Emanuele Parrinello , Ayşe Ünsal , Petros Elia

Caching is a technique to reduce the communication load in peak hours by prefetching contents during off-peak hours. An information-theoretic framework for coded caching was introduced by Maddah-Ali and Niesen in a recent work, where it was…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Shuo Shao , Jesús Gómez-Vilardebó , Kai Zhang , Chao Tian

Coded caching (CC) exploits cumulative cache memory at user devices and coding to transform unicast traffic into multicast transmissions. While information theoretic results show significant gains over uncoded caching for various network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Kagan Akcay , MohammadJavad Salehi , Giuseppe Caire

Coded caching leverages the differences in user cache memories to achieve gains that scale with the total cache size, alleviating network congestion due to high-quality content requests. Additionally, distributing transmitters over a wide…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Kagan Akcay , Eleftherios Lampiris , MohammadJavad Salehi , Giuseppe Caire

In this paper, we study the coded caching scheme for the $(L, K, M, N)$ multi-user information retrieval (MIR) system, which consists of a content library containing $N$ files, a base station (BS) with $L$ antennas that cannot access the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Junyi Wang , Quan Zang , Jinyu Wang , Minquan Cheng

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