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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

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

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

Caching is a technique to reduce peak traffic rates by prefetching popular content into memories at the end users. Conventionally, these memories are used to deliver requested content in part from a locally cached copy rather than through…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-06 Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , Urs Niesen

Decentralized coded caching is studied for a content server with $N$ files, each of size $F$ bits, serving $K$ active users, each equipped with a cache of distinct capacity. It is assumed that the users' caches are filled in advance during…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-13 Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri , Qianqian Yang , Deniz Gündüz

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

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-13 Ajaykrishnan N. , Navya S. Prem , Vinod M. Prabhakaran , Rahul Vaze

Allocation of (redundant) file chunks throughout a distributed storage system affects important performance metrics such as the probability of file recovery, data download time, or the service rate of the system under a given data access…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Pei Peng , Emina Soljanin

Recent work by Maddah-Ali and Niesen introduced coded caching which demonstrated the benefits of joint design of storage and transmission policies in content delivery networks. They studied a setup where a server communicates with a set of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-12 Vaishakh Ravindrakumar , Parthasarathi Panda , Nikhil Karamchandani , Vinod Prabhakaran

In this work, we propose a distributed rate allocation algorithm that minimizes the average decoding delay for multimedia clients in inter-session network coding systems. We consider a scenario where the users are organized in a mesh…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Eirina Bourtsoulatze , Nikolaos Thomos , Pascal Frossard

This work presents a new way of exploiting non-uniform file popularity in coded caching networks. Focusing on a fully-connected fully-interfering wireless setting with multiple cache-enabled transmitters and receivers, we show how…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Eleftherios Lampiris , Berksan Serbetci , Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos , Giuseppe Caire , Petros Elia

This work studies the $K$-user broadcast channel with $\Lambda$ caches, when the association between users and caches is random, i.e., for the scenario where each user can appear within the coverage area of -- and subsequently is assisted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Adeel Malik , Berksan Serbetci , Petros Elia

Edge caching and computing have been regarded as an efficient approach to tackle the wireless spectrum crunch problem. In this paper, we design a general coded caching with device computing strategy for content computation, e.g., virtual…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Yingjiao Li , Zhiyong Chen , Meixia Tao

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 compared to uncoded schemes and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Yinbin Ma , Daniela Tuninetti

This paper presents a novel achievable scheme for coded caching systems with $N$ files and $K$ users, specifically when $N \leq K$. This new scheme employs linear coding both during the placement phase - where cache contents are linear…

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

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

This paper investigates the fundamental tradeoff between cache size and download time in the (H;r;M;N) combination network, where a server with N files is connected to H relays (without caches) and each of the K:=\binom{H}{r} users (with…

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

Caching has been successfully applied in wired networks, in the context of Content Distribution Networks (CDNs), and is quickly gaining ground for wireless systems. Storing popular content at the edge of the network (e.g. at small cells) is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-18 Theodoros Giannakas , Pavlos Sermpezis , Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos

Existing designs for content dissemination do not fully explore and exploit potential caching and computation capabilities in advanced wireless networks. In this paper, we propose two partition-based caching designs, i.e., a coded caching…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Dongdong Jiang , Ying Cui

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 device-to-device (D2D) coded caching problems, it is possible that not all users will make file requests in the delivery phase. Hence, we propose a new D2D centralized coded caching problem, named the 3-user D2D coded caching with two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Wuqu Wang , Nan Liu , Wei Kang