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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

Coded caching utilizes proper file subpacketization and coded delivery to make full use of the multicast opportunities in content delivery, to alleviate file transfer load in massive content delivery scenarios. Most existing work considers…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Jialing Liao , Olav Tirkkonen

We study the caching problem when we are allowed to match each user to one of a subset of caches after its request is revealed. We focus on non-uniformly popular content, specifically when the file popularities obey a Zipf distribution. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Jad Hachem , Nikhil Karamchandani , Sharayu Moharir , Suhas Diggavi

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

Coded caching leverages the differences in user cache memories to achieve gains that scale with the total cache size, alleviating network congestion due to high-quality content requests. Additionally, distributing transmitters over a wide…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Kagan Akcay , Eleftherios Lampiris , MohammadJavad Salehi , Giuseppe Caire

We study the role of coded side information in single-server Private Information Retrieval (PIR). An instance of the single-server PIR problem includes a server that stores a database of $K$ independently and uniformly distributed messages,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Fatemeh Kazemi , Alex Sprintson

Coded caching utilizes pre-fetching during off-peak hours and multi-casting for delivery in order to balance the traffic load in communication networks. Several works have studied the achievable peak and average rates under different…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Ciyuan Zhang , Su Wang , Vaneet Aggarwal , Borja Peleato

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

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Shailja Agrawal , K V Sushena Sree , Prasad Krishnan

In this paper, we take a unified approach for network information theory and prove a coding theorem, which can recover most of the achievability results in network information theory that are based on random coding. The final single-letter…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-22 Si-Hyeon Lee , Sae-Young Chung

In this paper, downlink delivery of popular content is optimized with the assistance of wireless cache nodes. Specifically, the requests of one file is modeled as a Poisson point process with finite lifetime, and two downlink transmission…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-04 Bojie Lv , Lexiang Huang , Rui Wang

This letter investigates a new class of index coding problems. One sender broadcasts packets to multiple users, each desiring a subset, by exploiting prior knowledge of linear combinations of packets. We refer to this class of problems as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Namyoon Lee , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Robert W. Heath

We study a $K$-user coded-caching broadcast problem in a joint source-channel coding framework. The transmitter observes a database of files that are being generated at a certain rate per channel use, and each user has a cache, which can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Hadi Reisizadeh , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , Soheil Mohajer

Classical coded caching setting avails each user to have one dedicated cache. This is generalized to a more general shared cache scheme and the exact expression for the worst case rate was derived in [E. Parrinello, A. Unsal, P. Elia,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-11 Nujoom Sageer Karat , Spandan Dey , Anoop Thomas , B. Sundar Rajan

Caching at the wireless edge can be used to keep up with the increasing demand for high-definition wireless video streaming. By prefetching popular content into memory at wireless access points or end-user devices, requests can be served…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Parisa Hassanzadeh , Antonia M. Tulino , Jaime Llorca , Elza Erkip

Many computer vision tasks share substantial overlapping information, yet conventional codecs tend to ignore this, leading to redundant and inefficient representations. The Gray-Wyner network, a classical concept from information theory,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Anderson de Andrade , Alon Harell , Ivan V. Bajić

We study secure source-coding with causal disclosure, under the Gaussian distribution. The optimality of Gaussian auxiliary random variables is shown in various scenarios. We explicitly characterize the tradeoff between the rates of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Sanket Satpathy , Paul Cuff

This paper considers the secretive coded caching problem with shared caches in which no user must have access to the files that it did not demand. In a shared cache network, the users are served by a smaller number of helper caches and each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Elizabath Peter , K. K. Krishnan Namboodiri , B. Sundar Rajan

Edge-caching has received much attention as an efficient technique to reduce delivery latency and network congestion during peak-traffic times by bringing data closer to end users. Existing works usually design caching algorithms separately…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-08 Thang X. Vu , Symeon Chatzinotas , Bjorn Ottersten

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

Nowadays computer networks use different kind of memory whose speeds and capacities vary widely. There exist methods of a so-called caching which are intended to use the different kinds of memory in such a way that the frequently used data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-15 Boris Ryabko