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Cache-aided content delivery is studied in a multi-server system with $P$ servers and $K$ users, each equipped with a local cache memory. In the delivery phase, each user connects randomly to any $\rho$ out of $P$ servers. Thanks to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Nitish Mital , Deniz Gunduz , Cong Ling

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

Centralized coded caching of popular contents is studied for users with heterogeneous distortion requirements, corresponding to diverse processing and display capabilities of mobile devices. Users' distortion requirements are assumed to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-28 Qianqian Yang , Deniz Gunduz

Coded Caching is a promising solution to reduce the peak traffic in broadcast networks by prefetching the popular content close to end users and using coded transmissions. One of the chief issues of most coded caching schemes in literature…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Hari Hara Suthan Chittoor , Bhavana M , Prasad Krishnan

It has been recently established that joint design of content delivery and storage (coded caching) can significantly improve performance over conventional caching. This has also been extended to the case when content has non-uniform…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Jad Hachem , Nikhil Karamchandani , Suhas Diggavi

Improved lower bounds on the average and the worst-case rate-memory tradeoffs for the Maddah-Ali&Niesen coded caching scenario are presented. For any number of users and files and for arbitrary cache sizes, the multiplicative gap between…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Chien-Yi Wang , Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti , Michele Wigger

We consider the multi-access coded caching problem, which contains a central server with $N$ files, $K$ caches with $M$ units of memory each and $K$ users where each one is connected to $L (\geq 1)$ consecutive caches, with a cyclic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Srinivas Reddy Kota , Nikhil Karamchandani

Maddah-Ali and Niesen's original coded caching scheme for shared-link broadcast networks is now known to be optimal to within a factor two, and has been applied to other types of networks. For practical reasons, this paper considers that a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-06 Kai Wan , Mingyue Ji , Pablo Piantanida , Daniela Tuninetti

Coded caching is an efficient way to reduce network traffic congestion during peak hours by storing some content at the user's local cache memory without knowledge of later demands. The goal of coded caching design is to minimize the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Minquan Cheng , Dequan Liang , Ruizhong Wei

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 contents at the network edge is an efficient mean for offloading traffic, reducing latency and improving users' quality-of-experience. In this letter, we focus on aspects of storage-bandwidth tradeoffs in which small cell base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Syed Tamoor-ul-Hassan , Mehdi Bennis , Pedro H. J. Nardelli , Matti Latva-Aho

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 with a centralized placement…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Yinbin Ma , Daniela Tuninetti

We present an exact rate analysis for a secret key that can be shared among two parties employing a linear quantum repeater chain. One of our main motivations is to address the question whether simply placing quantum memories along a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-22 Lars Kamin , Evgeny Shchukin , Frank Schmidt , Peter van Loock

Coded caching is a technique that leverages locally cached contents at the users to reduce the network's peak-time communication load. Coded caching achieves significant performance gains compared to uncoded caching schemes and is thus a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Yinbin Ma , Daniela Tuninetti

In this work, we study coded placement in caching systems where the users have unequal cache sizes and demonstrate its performance advantage. In particular, we propose a caching scheme with coded placement for three-user systems that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-12 Abdelrahman M. Ibrahim , Ahmed A. Zewail , Aylin Yener

We consider a cache-aided wireless device-to-device (D2D) network under the constraint of one-shot delivery, where the placement phase is orchestrated by a central server. We assume that the devices' caches are filled with uncoded data, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Çağkan Yapar , Kai Wan , Rafael F. Schaefer , Giuseppe Caire

In-network caching is recognized as an effective solution to offload content servers and the network. A cache service provider (SP) always has incentives to better utilize its cache resources by taking into account diverse roles that…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Weibo Chu , Mostafa Dehghan , John C. S. Lui , Don Towsley , Zhi-Li Zhang

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

Next-generation mobile networks are expected to facilitate fast AI model downloading to end users. By caching models on edge servers, mobile networks can deliver models to end users with low latency, resulting in a paradigm of edge model…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Guanqiao Qu , Zheng Lin , Qian Chen , Jian Li , Fangming Liu , Xianhao Chen , Kaibin Huang

In this paper, we study shared cache coded caching (SC-CC): a set of caches serves a larger set of users; each user access one cache, and a cache may serve many users. For this problem, under uncoded placement, Parrinello, \"Unsal, and Elia…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Niladri Das , B. Sundar Rajan