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Maddah-Ali and Niesen, in a seminal paper, introduced the notion of coded caching. The exact nature of the fundamental limits in this context has remained elusive even as several approximate characterizations have been found. A new optimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Vijith Kumar K P , Brijesh Kumar Rai , Tony Jacob

In this work, the peak rate of the caching problem is investigated, under the scenario that the users are with small buffer sizes and the number of users is no less than the amount of files in the server. A novel coded caching strategy is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-09 Zhi Chen , Pingyi Fan , K. B. Letaief

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

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

We consider a cache network in which a single server is connected to multiple users via a shared error free link. The server has access to a database with $N$ files of equal length $F$, and serves $K$ users each with a cache memory of $MF$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Jesús Gómez-Vilardebó

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

Optimal caching of files in a content distribution network (CDN) is a problem of fundamental and growing commercial interest. Although many different caching algorithms are in use today, the fundamental performance limits of network caching…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Rajarshi Bhattacharjee , Subhankar Banerjee , Abhishek Sinha

A centralized coded caching system, consisting of a server delivering N popular files, each of size F bits, to K users through an error-free shared link, is considered. It is assumed that each user is equipped with a local cache memory with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-15 Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri , Deniz Gunduz

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

We consider a coded caching problem with multiple demands under a privacy constraint. In this problem, a server with access to \(N\) files serves \(K\) users over a shared link, and each user requests \(L\) distinct files. The privacy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Qinyi Lu , Nan Liu , Wei Kang

The multi-access variant of the coded caching problem with $N$ files, $K$ users and $K$ caches, where each user has access to $L$ neighbouring caches in a cyclic wrap-around manner, is considered. A cut-set based lower bound on the optimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-25 K. K. Krishnan Namboodiri , B. Sundar Rajan

This paper studies the fundamental limits of the shared-link coded caching problem with correlated files, where a server with a library of $N$ files communicates with $K$ users who can locally cache $M$ files. Given an integer $r \in [N]$,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Kai Wan , Daniela Tuninetti , Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire

Caching is a promising solution to satisfy the ongoing explosive demands for multi-media traffics. Recently, Maddah-Ali and Niesen proposed both centralized and de-centralized coded caching schemes, which are able to attain significant…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Qifa Yan , Xiaohu Tang , Qingchun Chen

The work explores the fundamental limits of coded caching in heterogeneous networks where multiple ($N_0$) senders/antennas, serve different users which are associated (linked) to shared caches, where each such cache helps an arbitrary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Emanuele Parrinello , Ayse Unsal , Petros Elia

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

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

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

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

This paper aims to provide an optimization framework for coded caching that accounts for various heterogeneous aspects of practical systems. An optimization theoretic perspective on the seminal work on the fundamental limits of caching by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Alexander Michael Daniel , Wei Yu

We consider a network consisting of a file server connected through a shared link to a number of users, each equipped with a cache. Knowing the popularity distribution of the files, the goal is to optimally populate the caches such as to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-23 Urs Niesen , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali
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