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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

Caching of popular content during off-peak hours is a strategy to reduce network loads during peak hours. Recent work has shown significant benefits of designing such caching strategies not only to deliver part of the content locally, but…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Nikhil Karamchandani , Urs Niesen , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , Suhas Diggavi

Content delivery networks store information distributed across multiple servers, so as to balance the load and avoid unrecoverable losses in case of node or disk failures. Coded caching has been shown to be a useful technique which can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Tianqiong Luo , Vaneet Aggarwal , Borja Peleato

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

Centralized coded caching problem is studied for the two-user scenario, considering heterogeneous cache capacities at the users and private channels from the server to the users, in addition to a shared channel. Optimal caching and delivery…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Daming Cao , Deyao Zhang , Pengyao Chen , Nan Liu , Wei Kang , Deniz Gündüz

Coded multicasting has been shown to improve the caching performance of content delivery networks with multiple caches downstream of a common multicast link. However, the schemes that have been shown to achieve order-optimal perfor- mance…

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

Recent studies show that the coded caching technique can facilitate the wireless content distribution by mitigating the wireless traffic rate during the peak-traffic time, where the contents are partially prefetched to the local cache of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-07-08 Sinong Wang , Xiaohua Tian , Hui Liu

Coded caching is an effective technique to reduce the redundant traffic in wireless networks. The existing coded caching schemes require the splitting of files into a possibly large number of subfiles, i.e., they perform coded subfile…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Seyed Ali Saberali , Lutz Lampe , Ian Blake

Coded caching is a technique that promises huge reductions in network traffic in content-delivery networks. However, the original formulation and several subsequent contributions in the area, assume that the file requests from the users are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Hooshang Ghasemi , Aditya Ramamoorthy

Caching is popular technique in content delivery networks that allows for reductions in transmission rates from the content-hosting server to the end users. Coded caching is a generalization of conventional caching that considers the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-28 Li Tang , Aditya Ramamoorthy

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

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

Coded caching is a promising technique to create coded multicast opportunities for cache-aided networks. By splitting each file into $F$ equal packets (i.e., the subpacketization level $F$) and letting each user cache a set of packets, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Minquan Cheng , Yifei Huang , Youlong Wu , Jinyan Wang

This work considers the combinatorial multi-access coded caching problem introduced in the recent work by Muralidhar \textit{et al.} [P. N. Muralidhar, D. Katyal, and B. S. Rajan, ``Maddah-Ali-Niesen scheme for multi-access coded caching,''…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-18 K. K. Krishnan Namboodiri , B. Sundar Rajan

To address the exponentially rising demand for wireless content, use of caching is emerging as a potential solution. It has been recently established that joint design of content delivery and storage (coded caching) can significantly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-01 Jad Hachem , Nikhil Karamchandani , Suhas Diggavi

Coded caching is a recently proposed technique that achieves significant performance gains for cache networks compared to uncoded caching schemes. However, this substantial coding gain is attained at the cost of large delivery delay, which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Urs Niesen , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali

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

Erasure codes have been widely considered a promising solution to enhance data reliability at low storage costs. However, in modern geo-distributed storage systems, erasure codes may incur high data access latency as they require data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Kaiyang Liu , Jun Peng , Jingrong Wang , Jianping Pan

We study the problem of caching optimization in heterogeneous networks with mutual interference and per-file rate constraints from an energy efficiency perspective. A setup is considered in which two cache-enabled transmitter nodes and a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Estefanía Recayte , Giuseppe Cocco

In a secure coded caching system, a central server balances the traffic flow between peak and off-peak periods by distributing some public data to the users' caches in advance. Meanwhile, these data are securely protected against the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Kangning Ma , Shuo Shao