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Coded caching techniques have received significant attention lately due to their provable gains in reducing the cost of data delivery in wireless networks. These gains, however, have only been demonstrated under the assumption of a free…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Yousef AlHassoun , Faisal Alotaibi , Aly El Gamal , Hesham El Gamal

Coded caching and delivery is studied taking into account the correlations among the contents in the library. Correlations are modeled as common parts shared by multiple contents; that is, each file in the database is composed of a group of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-13 Qianqian Yang , Deniz Gündüz

This paper proposes a novel achievable scheme for the index problem and applies it to the caching problem. Index coding and caching are noiseless broadcast channel problems where receivers have message side information.In the index coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-24 Kai Wan , Daniela Tuninetti , Pablo Piantanida

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

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Parisa Hassanzadeh , Antonia M. Tulino , Jaime Llorca , Elza Erkip

We consider the multi-access coded caching problem, which contains a central server with $N$ files, $K$ caches with $M$ units of memory each and $K$ users where each one is connected to $L (\geq 1)$ consecutive caches, with a cyclic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Srinivas Reddy Kota , Nikhil Karamchandani

Index coding and coded caching are two active research topics in information theory with strong ties to each other. Motivated by the multi-access coded caching problem, we study a new class of structured index coding problems (ICPs) which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Kota Srinivas Reddy , Nikhil Karamchandani

Coded caching can significantly reduce the communication bandwidth requirement for satisfying users' demands by utilizing the multicasting gain among multiple users. Most existing works assume that the users follow the prescriptions for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Seyed Mohammad Asghari , Yi Ouyang , Ashutosh Nayyar , A. Salman Avestimehr

This work studies the coded caching problem in a setting where the users are simultaneously endowed with a private cache and a shared cache. The setting consists of a server connected to a set of users, assisted by a smaller number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Elizabath Peter , K. K. Krishnan Namboodiri , B. Sundar Rajan

In a secure coded caching system, a central server balances the traffic flow between peak and off-peak periods by distributing some public data to the users' caches in advance. Meanwhile, these data are securely protected against the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Kangning Ma , Shuo Shao

Replicating or caching popular content in memories distributed across the network is a technique to reduce peak network loads. Conventionally, the main performance gain of this caching was thought to result from making part of the requested…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-08 Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , Urs Niesen

For a network with one sender, $n$ receivers (users) and $m$ possible messages (files), caching side information at the users allows to satisfy arbitrary simultaneous demands by sending a common (multicast) coded message. In the worst-case…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-04 Mingyue Ji , Antonia M. Tulino , Jaime Llorca , Giuseppe Caire

Content caching at the edge of network is a promising technique to alleviate the burden of backhaul networks. In this paper, we consider content caching along time in a base station with limited cache capacity. As the popularity of contents…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Ghafour Ahani , Di Yuan

The performance of existing coded caching schemes is sensitive to the worst channel quality, a problem which is exacerbated when communicating over fading channels. In this paper, we address this limitation in the following manner: in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Apostolos Destounis , Asma Ghorbel , Georgios S. Paschos , Mari Kobayashi

We propose a new caching scheme where linear combinations of the file segments are cached at the users, for the cases where the number of files is no greater than the number of users. When a user requests a certain file in the delivery…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-02 Chao Tian , Jun Chen

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

In this paper we determine the delivery time for a multi-server coded caching problem when the cache size of each user is small. We propose an achievable scheme based on coded cache content placement, and employ zero-forcing techniques at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-22 Seyed Pooya Shariatpanahi , Babak Hossein Khalaj

Centralized coded caching of popular contents is studied for users with heterogeneous distortion requirements, corresponding to diverse processing and display capabilities of mobile devices. Users' distortion requirements are assumed to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-28 Qianqian Yang , Deniz Gunduz

An information-theoretic lower bound is developed for the caching system studied by Maddah-Ali and Niesen. By comparing the proposed lower bound with the decentralized coded caching scheme of Maddah-Ali and Niesen, the optimal memory--rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-22 Chien-Yi Wang , Sung Hoon Lim , Michael Gastpar

We consider the problem of delivering content cached in a wireless network of n nodes randomly located on a square of area n. The network performance is described by the n2^n-dimensional caching capacity region of the wireless network. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-28 Urs Niesen , Devavrat Shah , Gregory Wornell

Coded caching scheme is a technique which reduce the load during peak traffic times in a wireless network system. Placement delivery array (PDA in short) was first introduced by Yan et al.. It can be used to design coded caching scheme. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-28 X. Niu , H. Cao