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This work studies a well-known shared-cache coded caching scenario where each cache can serve an arbitrary number of users, analyzing the case where there is some knowledge about such number of users (i.e., the topology) during the content…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Emanuele Parrinello , Antonio Bazco-Nogueras , Petros Elia

A new scheme for the problem of centralized coded caching with non-uniform demands is proposed. The distinguishing feature of the proposed placement strategy is that it admits equal sub-packetization for all files while allowing the users…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Saeid Sahraei , Pierre Quinton , Michael Gastpar

Despite significant progress in the caching literature concerning the worst case and uniform average case regimes, the algorithms for caching with nonuniform demands are still at a basic stage and mostly rely on simple grouping and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Pierre Quinton , Saeid Sahraei , Michael Gastpar

Content-centric networking (CCN) introduces a paradigm shift from a host centric to an information centric communication model for future Internet architectures. It supports the retrieval of a particular content regardless of the physical…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Hasan M A Islam , Dimitris Chatzopoulos , Dmitrij Lagutin , Pan Hui , Antti Ylä-Jääski

In this paper we show that the Index Coding problem captures several important properties of the more general Network Coding problem. An instance of the Index Coding problem includes a server that holds a set of information messages…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-05-12 Salim El Rouayheb , Alex Sprintson , Costas Georghiades

We consider the standard broadcast setup with a single server broadcasting information to a number of clients, each of which contains local storage (called cache) of some size, which can store some parts of the available files at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Shailja Agrawal , K V Sushena Sree , Prasad Krishnan , Abhinav Vaishya , Srikar Kale

This paper presents a new achievable scheme for coded caching systems with $\mathsf{N}$ files, $\mathsf{K}=\mathsf{N}$ users, and cache size $\mathsf{M}=1/(\mathsf{N}-1)$. The scheme employs linear coding during the cache placement phase,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Yinbin Ma , Daniela Tuninetti

We investigate the potentials of applying the coded caching paradigm in wireless networks. In order to do this, we investigate physical layer schemes for downlink transmission from a multiantenna transmitter to several cache-enabled users.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Seyed Pooya Shariatpanahi , Giuseppe Caire , Babak Hossein Khalaj

The centralized coded caching scheme is a technique proposed by Maddah-Ali and Niesen as a solution to reduce the network burden in peak times in a wireless system. Later Yan et al. reformulated the problem as designing a corresponding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Chong Shangguan , Yiwei Zhang , Gennian Ge

Existing decentralized coded caching solutions cannot guarantee small loads in the general scenario with arbitrary file sizes and cache sizes. In this paper, we propose an optimization framework for decentralized coded caching in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Qi Wang , Ying Cui , Sian Jin , Junni Zou , Chenglin Li , Hongkai Xiong

We study the performance of caching schemes based on LT under peeling (iterative) decoding algorithm. We assume that users ask for downloading content to multiple cache-aided transmitters. Transmitters are connected through a backhaul link…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Estefanía Recayte , Francisco Lázaro , Gianluigi Liva

Recent years have witnessed an exponential growth of mobile data traffic, which may lead to a serious traffic burn on the wireless networks and considerable power consumption. Network densification and edge caching are effective approaches…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Xiongwei Wu , Qiang Li , Xiuhua Li , Victor C. M. Leung , P. C. Ching

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

Distributed learning platforms for processing large scale data-sets are becoming increasingly prevalent. In typical distributed implementations, a centralized master node breaks the data-set into smaller batches for parallel processing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-03 Mohamed Attia , Ravi Tandon

We study the problem of content delivery in two-user interference channels with altering topology, random available cache at the receivers, and delayed channel knowledge at the transmitter. We establish a new set of outer-bounds on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Alireza Vahid

We consider the coded caching system where each user, equipped with a private cache, accesses a distinct r-subset of access caches. A central server housing a library of files populates both private and access caches using uncoded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Dhruv Pratap Singh , Anjana A. Mahesh , B. Sundar Rajan

Caching appears to be an efficient way to reduce peak hour network traffic congestion by storing some content at the user's cache without knowledge of later demands. Recently, Maddah-Ali and Niesen proposed a two-phase, placement and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-28 Kai Wan , Daniela Tuninetti , Pablo Piantanida

We consider a MapReduce-type task running in a distributed computing model which consists of ${K}$ edge computing nodes distributed across the edge of the network and a Master node that assists the edge nodes to compute output functions.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Haoning Chen , Youlong Wu

Coded caching is effective in leveraging the accumulated storage size in wireless networks by distributing different coded segments of each file in multiple cache nodes. This paper aims to find a wireless coded caching policy to minimize…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-20 Zhe Zhang , Meixia Tao

Inspired by prior work by Tian and by Cao and Xu, this paper presents an efficient computer-aided framework to characterize the fundamental limits of coded caching systems under the constraint of linear coding. The proposed framework…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Niccolò Brembilla , Yinbin Ma , Pietro Belotti , Federico Malucelli , Daniela Tuninetti