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We study the role of caches in wireless interference networks. We focus on content caching and delivery across a Gaussian interference network, where both transmitters and receivers are equipped with caches. We provide a constant-factor…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Jad Hachem , Urs Niesen , Suhas Diggavi

Rate-distortion (R-D) function, a key quantity in information theory, characterizes the fundamental limit of how much a data source can be compressed subject to a fidelity criterion, by any compression algorithm. As researchers push for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Yibo Yang , Stephan Mandt

An emerging trend of next generation communication systems is to provide network edges with additional capabilities such as storage resources in the form of caches to reduce file delivery latency. To investigate this aspect, we study the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Jaber Kakar , Alaa Alameer , Anas Chaaban , Aydin Sezgin , Arogyaswami Paulraj

This paper considers the problem of lossy compression for the computation of a function of two correlated sources, both of which are observed at the encoder. Due to presence of observation costs, the encoder is allowed to observe only…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-22 Xi Liu , Osvaldo Simeone , Elza Erkip

A joint communication and channel state estimation problem is investigated, in which reliable information transmission over a noisy channel, and high-fidelity estimation of the channel state, are simultaneously sought. The tradeoff between…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-01-09 Wenyi Zhang , Satish Vedantam , Urbashi Mitra

We extend quantum rate distortion theory by considering auxiliary resources that might be available to a sender and receiver performing lossy quantum data compression. The first setting we consider is that of quantum rate distortion coding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-09 Mark M. Wilde , Nilanjana Datta , Min-Hsiu Hsieh , Andreas Winter

The task of jointly communicating a message and reconstructing a common estimate of the channel state is examined for a fading Gaussian model with additive state interference. The state is an independent and identically distributed Gaussian…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Viswanathan Ramachandran

Let (S1,i, S2,i), distributed according to i.i.d p(s1, s2), i = 1, 2, . . . be a memoryless, correlated partial side information sequence. In this work we study channel coding and source coding problems where the partial side information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-12 Avihay Shirazi , Uria Basher , Haim Permuter

Data mining services require accurate input data for their results to be meaningful, but privacy concerns may influence users to provide spurious information. To encourage users to provide correct inputs, we recently proposed a data…

Databases · Computer Science 2011-11-09 Shipra Agrawal , Vijay Krishnan , Jayant Haritsa

We study a distributed learning problem in which Alice sends a compressed distillation of a set of training data to Bob, who uses the distilled version to best solve an associated learning problem. We formalize this as a rate-distortion…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Parinaz Farajiparvar , Ahmad Beirami , Matthew Nokleby

This paper studies the fundamental tradeoff between storage and latency in a general wireless interference network with caches equipped at all transmitters and receivers. The tradeoff is characterized by an information-theoretic metric,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Fan Xu , Meixia Tao , Kangqi Liu

This paper studies the storage-latency tradeoff in the $3\times3$ wireless interference network with caches equipped at all transmitters and receivers. The tradeoff is characterized by the so-called fractional delivery time (FDT) at given…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Fan Xu , Kangqi Liu , Meixia Tao

We investigate the fundamental information theoretic limits of cache-aided wireless networks, in which edge nodes (or transmitters) are endowed with caches that can store popular content, such as multimedia files. This architecture aims to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-25 Avik Sengupta , Ravi Tandon , Osvaldo Simeone

We consider the problem of communicating a sequence of concepts, i.e., unknown and potentially stochastic maps, which can be observed only through examples, i.e., the mapping rules are unknown. The transmitter applies a learning algorithm…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Francesco Pase , Szymon Kobus , Deniz Gunduz , Michele Zorzi

This paper deals with rate distortion or source coding with fidelity criterion, in measure spaces, for a class of source distributions. The class of source distributions is described by a relative entropy constraint set between the true and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-07 Farzad Rezaei , Charalambos D. Charalambous , Photios A. Stavrou

The recently proposed set-up of source coding with a side information "vending machine" allows the decoder to select actions in order to control the quality of the side information. The actions can depend on the message received from the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-08 Osvaldo Simeone

Constrained lossy source coding and channel coding with side information problems which extend the classic Wyner-Ziv and Gel'fand-Pinsker problems are considered. Inspired by applications in sensor networking and control, we first consider…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Kittipong Kittichokechai , Tobias J. Oechtering , Mikael Skoglund

Performance evaluation of caching systems is an old and widely investigated research topic. The research community is once again actively working on this topic because the Internet is evolving towards new transfer modes, which envisage to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-09-04 G. Bianchi , N. Blefari Melazzi , A. Caponi , A. Detti

We examine the structure of families of distortion balls from the perspective of Kolmogorov complexity. Special attention is paid to the canonical rate-distortion function of a source word which returns the minimal Kolmogorov complexity of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-26 Nikolai K. Vereshchagin , Paul M. B. Vitanyi

The aim of this paper is a theoretical study of a cache system in order to optimize proxy cache systems and to modernize construction principles including prefetching schemes. Two types of correlations, Zipf-like distribution and…

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