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This paper considers a hierarchical caching system where a server connects with multiple mirror sites, each connecting with a distinct set of users, and both the mirror sites and users are equipped with caching memories. Although there…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Yun Kong , Youlong Wu , Minquan Cheng

The multi-access variant of the coded caching problem in the presence of an external wiretapper is investigated . A multi-access coded caching scheme with $K$ users, $K$ caches and $N$ files, where each user has access to $L$ neighbouring…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-13 K. K. Krishnan Namboodiri , B. Sundar Rajan

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

The multiaccess coded caching (MACC) system, as formulated by Hachem {\it et al.}, consists of a central server with a library of $N$ files, connected to $K$ cache-less users via an error-free shared link, and $K$ cache nodes, each equipped…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Wenbo Huang , Minquan Cheng , Kai Wan , Xiaojun Li , Robert Caiming Qiu , Giuseppe Caire

We study hotplug coded caching in combinatorial multi-access networks, which generalizes existing hotplug coded caching models by allowing users to access multiple caches, while only a subset of caches is online during the delivery phase.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Dhruv Pratap Singh , Anjana A. Mahesh , B. Sundar Rajan

Design of distributed caching mechanisms is considered as an active area of research due to its promising solution in reducing data load in the backhaul link of a cellular network. In this paper, the problem of distributed content caching…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-14 S. Krishnendu , B. N. Bharath , Navneet Garg , Vimal Bhatia , Tharmalingam Ratnarajah

Coded caching (CC) schemes exploit the cumulative cache memory of the users and simple linear coding to turn unicast traffic (individual file requests) into a multicast transmission. For the originally proposed $K$-user single-server/single…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Kagan Akcay , MohammadJavad Salehi , Giuseppe Caire

Recently multi-access coded caching schemes with number of users different from the number of caches obtained from a special case of resolvable designs called Cross Resolvable Designs (CRDs) have been reported and a new performance metric…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Pooja Nayak Muralidhar , Digvijay Katyal , B. Sundar Rajan

Heterogeneous wireless networks (HetNets) provide a powerful approach to meet the dramatic mobile traffic growth, but also impose a significant challenge on backhaul. Caching and multicasting at macro and pico base stations (BSs) are two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-11 Ying Cui , Dongdong Jiang

A distributed quantum storage code maps a quantum message to N storage nodes, of arbitrary specified sizes, such that the stored message is robust to an arbitrary specified set of erasure patterns. The sizes of the storage nodes, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Hua Sun , Syed A. Jafar

The fundamental limit of coded caching is investigated for the case with $N=3$ files and $K=3$ users. An improved outer bound is obtained through the computational approach developed by the author in an earlier work. This result is part of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Chao Tian

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

A two-tier heterogeneous cellular network (HCN) with intra-tier and inter-tier dependence is studied. The macro cell deployment follows a Poisson point process (PPP) and two different clustered point processes are used to model the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Ejder Baştuğ , Mehdi Bennis , Marios Kountouris , Mérouane Debbah

By suppressing repeated content deliveries, wireless caching has the potential to substantially improve the energy efficiency (EE) of the fifth generation (5G) communication networks. In this paper, we propose two novel energy-efficient…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-31 Xuewei Zhang , Tiejun Lv , Wei Ni , John M. Cioffi , Norman C. Beaulieu , Y. Jay Guo

This paper reviews and highlights how coding schemes have been used to solve various problems in blockchain systems. Specifically, these problems relate to scaling blockchains in terms of their data storage, computation and communication…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Changlin Yang , Kwan-Wu Chin , Jiguang Wang , Xiaodong Wang , Ying Liu , Zibin Zheng

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

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Parisa Hassanzadeh , Antonia Tulino , Jaime Llorca , Elza Erkip

This paper focuses on similarity caching systems, in which a user request for an {object~$o$} that is not in the cache can be (partially) satisfied by a similar stored {object~$o'$}, at the cost of a loss of user utility. Similarity caching…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Michele Garetto , Emilio Leonardi , Giovanni Neglia

In large-scale distributed computing clusters, such as Amazon EC2, there are several types of "system noise" that can result in major degradation of performance: bottlenecks due to limited communication bandwidth, latency due to straggler…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Amirhossein Reisizadeh , Saurav Prakash , Ramtin Pedarsani , Amir Salman Avestimehr

Coded multicasting has been shown to be a promis- ing approach to significantly improve the caching performance of content delivery networks with multiple caches downstream of a common multicast link. However, achievable schemes proposed to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-25 Giuseppe Vettigli , Mingyue Ji , Antonia M. Tulino , Jaime Llorca , Paola Festa

The packet type (PT)-based framework~\cite{zhang2026taming} provides a systematic and principled approach to designing device-to-device (D2D) coded caching schemes that achieve reduced \sbp while preserving the optimal communication rate.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Xiang Zhang , Giuseppe Caire , Mingyue Ji