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Optimizing distributed learning systems is an art of balancing between computation and communication. There have been two lines of research that try to deal with slower networks: {\em communication compression} for low bandwidth networks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Hanlin Tang , Shaoduo Gan , Ce Zhang , Tong Zhang , Ji Liu

In order to better accommodate the dramatically increasing demand for data caching and computing services, storage and computation capabilities should be endowed to some of the intermediate nodes within the network. In this paper, we design…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-06-30 Yuchen Zhou , F. Richard Yu , Jian Chen , Yonghong Kuo

We consider the setting of a master server who possesses confidential data (genomic, medical data, etc.) and wants to run intensive computations on it, as part of a machine learning algorithm for example. The master wants to distribute…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Rawad Bitar , Parimal Parag , Salim El Rouayheb

Erasure codes are an efficient means of storing data across a network in comparison to data replication, as they tend to reduce the amount of data stored in the network and offer increased resilience in the presence of node failures. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 K. V. Rashmi , Nihar B. Shah , P. Vijay Kumar

The Metaverse promises immersive, real-time experiences; however, meeting its stringent latency and resource demands remains a major challenge. Conventional optimization techniques struggle to respond effectively under dynamic edge…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Sulaiman Muhammad Rashid , Ibrahim Aliyu , Jaehyung Park , Jinsul Kim

We consider an erasure multi-way relay channel (EMWRC) in which several users share their data through a relay over erasure links. Assuming no feedback channel between the users and the relay, we first identify the challenges for designing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Moslem Noori , Hossein Bagheri , Masoud Ardakani

The distributed edge storage system can store data collected at the edge of the network in a decentralised manner, with low latency, high security, and flexibility. Traditional edge-distributed storage systems only consider one single…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Yejin Yang , Miao Ye , Qiuxiang Jiang , Peng Wen

While mobile edge computing (MEC) alleviates the computation and power limitations of mobile devices, additional latency is incurred when offloading tasks to remote MEC servers. In this work, the power-delay tradeoff in the context of task…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Chen-Feng Liu , Mehdi Bennis , H. Vincent Poor

Edge networks are promising to provide better services to users by provisioning computing and storage resources at the edge of networks. However, due to the uncertainty and diversity of user interests, content popularity, distributed…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Nitish K. Panigrahy , Jian Li , Faheem Zafari , Don Towsley , Paul Yu

Edge Storage Systems have emerged as a critical enabler of low latency data access in modern cloud networks by bringing storage and computation closer to end users. However, the limited storage capacity of edge servers poses significant…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Shubhradeep Roy , Suvarthi Sarkar , Vivek Verma , Aryabartta Sahu

One key requirement for storage clouds is to be able to retrieve data quickly. Recent system measurements have shown that the data retrieving delay in storage clouds is highly variable, which may result in a long latency tail. One crucial…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yin Sun , Zizhan Zheng , C. Emre Koksal , Kyu-Han Kim , Ness B. Shroff

One of the primary objectives of a distributed storage system is to reliably store large amounts of source data for long durations using a large number $N$ of unreliable storage nodes, each with $c$ bits of storage capacity. Storage nodes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Michael Luby , Thomas Richardson

In distributed learning, the goal is to perform a learning task over data distributed across multiple nodes with minimal (expensive) communication. Prior work (Daume III et al., 2012) proposes a general model that bounds the communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-04-17 Hal Daume , Jeff M. Phillips , Avishek Saha , Suresh Venkatasubramanian

Coded caching has the potential to greatly reduce network traffic by leveraging the cheap and abundant storage available in end-user devices so as to create multicast opportunities in the delivery phase. In the seminal work by Maddah-Ali…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Kai Wan , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Daniela Tuninetti , Giuseppe Caire

With files proactively stored at base stations (BSs), mobile edge caching enables direct content delivery without remote file fetching, which can reduce the end-to-end delay while relieving backhaul pressure. To effectively utilize the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Shan Zhang , Peter He , Katsuya Suto , Peng Yang , Lian Zhao , Xuemin , Shen

In this work, we study the problem of energy-efficient computation offloading enabled by edge computing. In the considered scenario, multiple users simultaneously compete for limited radio and edge computing resources to get offloaded tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Mohamed Sana , Mattia Merluzzi , Nicola di Pietro , Emilio Calvanese Strinati

This thesis explores a particular class of distributed optimization methods for various separable resource allocation problems, which are of high interest in a wide array of multi-agent settings. A distinctly motivating application for this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-26 Tor Anderson

This paper studies content caching in cloud-aided wireless networks where small cell base stations with limited storage are connected to the cloud via limited capacity fronthaul links. By formulating a utility (inverse of service delay)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Syed Tamoor-ul-Hassan , Sumudu Samarakoon , Mehdi Bennis , Matti Latva-aho , Choong-Seong Hong

To recover simultaneous multiple failures in erasure coded storage systems, Patrick Lee et al introduce concurrent repair based minimal storage regenerating codes to reduce repair traffic. The architecture of this approach is simpler and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-25 Huayu Zhang , Hui Li , Hanxu Hou , K. W. Shum , ShuoYen Robert Li

Lightweight containers provide an efficient approach for deploying computation-intensive applications in network edge. The layered storage structure of container images can further reduce the deployment cost and container startup time.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Zhiqing Tang , Wentao Peng , Jianxiong Guo , Jiong Lou , Hanshuai Cui , Tian Wang , Yuan Wu , Weijia Jia