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Maddah-Ali and Niesen (MAN) in 2014 surprisingly showed that it is possible to serve an arbitrarily large number of cache-equipped users with a constant number of transmissions by using coded caching in shared-link broadcast networks. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Kai Wan , Mingyue Ji , Pablo Piantanida , Daniela Tuninetti

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

Coded caching is a promising technique to create coded multicast opportunities for cache-aided networks. By splitting each file into $F$ equal packets (i.e., the subpacketization level $F$) and letting each user cache a set of packets, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Minquan Cheng , Yifei Huang , Youlong Wu , Jinyan Wang

Emerging heterogeneous wireless architectures consist of a dense deployment of local-coverage wireless access points (APs) with high data rates, along with sparsely-distributed, large-coverage macro-cell base stations (BS). We design a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Jad Hachem , Nikhil Karamchandani , Suhas Diggavi

This paper considers a two-hop network architecture known as a combination network, where a layer of relay nodes connects a server to a set of end users. In particular, a new model is investigated where the intermediate relays employ caches…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-14 Ahmed A. Zewail , Aylin Yener

Coded caching scheme is a promising technique to migrate the network burden in peak hours, which attains more prominent gains than the uncoded caching. The coded caching scheme can be classified into two types, namely, the centralized and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-16 Lei Zheng , Qifa Yan , Qingchun Chen , Xiaohu Tang

Next-generation communication networks are envisioned to extensively utilize storage-enabled caching units to alleviate unfavorable surges of data traffic by pro-actively storing anticipated highly popular contents across geographically…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Alireza Sadeghi , Antonio G. Marques , Georgios B. Giannakis

Coded caching is an effective technique to reduce the redundant traffic in wireless networks. The existing coded caching schemes require the splitting of files into a possibly large number of subfiles, i.e., they perform coded subfile…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Seyed Ali Saberali , Lutz Lampe , Ian Blake

Caching is an efficient way to reduce peak-hour network traffic congestion by storing some contents at user's local cache without knowledge of later demands. Maddah-Ali and Niesen initiated a fundamental study of caching systems; they…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-10 Kai Wan , Daniela Tuninetti , Pablo Piantanida

Coded caching (CC) schemes exploit the cumulative cache memory of the users and simple linear coding to turn unicast traffic (individual file requests) into a multicast transmission. For the originally proposed $K$-user single-server/single…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Kagan Akcay , MohammadJavad Salehi , Giuseppe Caire

We consider load balancing problem in a cache network consisting of storage-enabled servers forming a distributed content delivery scenario. Previously proposed load balancing solutions cannot perfectly balance out requests among servers,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Mahdi Jafari Siavoshani , Farzad Parvaresh , Ali Pourmiri , Seyed Pooya Shariatpanahi

Caching is an approach to smoothen the variability of traffic over time. Recently it has been proved that the local memories at the users can be exploited for reducing the peak traffic in a much more efficient way than previously believed.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-22 Saeid Sahraei , Michael Gastpar

Centralized coded caching problem is studied for the two-user scenario, considering heterogeneous cache capacities at the users and private channels from the server to the users, in addition to a shared channel. Optimal caching and delivery…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Daming Cao , Deyao Zhang , Pengyao Chen , Nan Liu , Wei Kang , Deniz Gündüz

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

Coded caching is a technique that promises huge reductions in network traffic in content-delivery networks. However, the original formulation and several subsequent contributions in the area, assume that the file requests from the users are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Hooshang Ghasemi , Aditya Ramamoorthy

We study the problem of caching optimization in heterogeneous networks with mutual interference and per-file rate constraints from an energy efficiency perspective. A setup is considered in which two cache-enabled transmitter nodes and a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Estefanía Recayte , Giuseppe Cocco

Coded caching is an information theoretic scheme to reduce high peak hours traffic by partially prefetching files in the users local storage during low peak hours. This paper considers heterogeneous decentralized caching systems where cache…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Mozhgan Bayat , Kai Wan , Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire

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

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

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 2018-04-16 Nitish Mital , Deniz Gunduz , Cong Ling