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Practical random network coding based schemes for multicast include a header in each packet that records the transformation between the sources and the terminal. The header introduces an overhead that can be significant in certain…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-06-03 Shizheng Li , Aditya Ramamoorthy

The paper is devoted to the problem of erasure coding in distributed storage. We consider a model of storage that assumes that nodes are organized into equally sized groups, called racks, that within each group the nodes can communicate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Zitan Chen , Alexander Barg

The problem of data exchange between multiple nodes with storage and communication capabilities models several current multi-user communication problems like Coded Caching, Data Shuffling, Coded Computing, etc. The goal in such problems is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Prasad Krishnan , Lakshmi Natarajan , V. Lalitha

We study the problem of reducing the communication overhead from a noisy wire-tap channel or storage system where data is encoded as a matrix, when more columns (or their linear combinations) are available. We present its applications to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-28 Umberto Martínez-Peñas

In this paper, we study error-correcting codes for the storage of data in synthetic deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). We investigate a storage model where data is represented by an unordered set of $M$ sequences, each of length $L$. Errors…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Andreas Lenz , Paul H. Siegel , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Eitan Yaakobi

The combination of edge caching and coded multicasting is a promising approach to improve the efficiency of content delivery over cache-aided networks. The global caching gain resulting from content overlap distributed across the network in…

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

Random Linear Network Coding (RLNC) provides a theoretically efficient method for coding. Some of its practical drawbacks are the complexity of decoding and the overhead due to the coding vectors. For computationally weak and battery-driven…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-09-16 Janus Heide , Morten V. Pedersen , Frank H. P. Fitzek , Muriel M edard

The explosion in the volumes of data being stored online has resulted in distributed storage systems transitioning to erasure coding based schemes. Yet, the codes being deployed in practice are fairly short. In this work, we address what we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-22 Parikshit Gopalan , Guangda Hu , Swastik Kopparty , Shubhangi Saraf , Carol Wang , Sergey Yekhanin

We consider the data shuffling problem in a distributed learning system, in which a master node is connected to a set of worker nodes, via a shared link, in order to communicate a set of files to the worker nodes. The master node has access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Adel Elmahdy , Soheil Mohajer

Modern distributed storage systems offer large capacity to satisfy the exponentially increasing need of storage space. They often use erasure codes to protect against disk and node failures to increase reliability, while trying to meet the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Yu Xiang , Tian Lan , Vaneet Aggarwal , Yih-Farn R Chen

In the era of big data, reducing the computational complexity of servers in data centers will be an important goal. We propose Low Complexity Secure Codes (LCSCs) that are specifically designed to provide information theoretic security in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Mohsen Karimzadeh Kiskani , Hamid R. Sadjadpour , Mohammad Reza Rahimi , Fred Etemadieh

Modern distributed storage systems often use erasure codes to protect against disk and node failures to increase reliability, while trying to meet the latency requirements of the applications and clients. Storage systems may have caches at…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-07-24 Vaneet Aggarwal , Yih-Farn R. Chen , Tian Lan , Yu Xiang

Large-scale systems with arrays of solid state disks (SSDs) have become increasingly common in many computing segments. To make such systems resilient, we can adopt erasure coding such as Reed-Solomon (RS) code as an alternative to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-20 Sungjoon Koh , Jie Zhang , Miryeong Kwon , Jungyeon Yoon , David Donofrio , Namsung Kim , Myoungsoo Jung

We consider the problem of distributing a file in a network of storage nodes whose storage budget is limited but at least equals to the size file. We first generate $T$ encoded symbols (from the file) which are then distributed among the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-05-31 Mohsen Sardari , Ricardo Restrepo , Faramarz Fekri , Emina Soljanin

Towards the development of 6G mobile networks, it is promising to integrate a large number of devices from multi-dimensional platforms, and it is crucial to have a solid understanding of the theoretical limits of large-scale networks. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Yanxiao Liu , Shenghao Yang , Cheuk Ting Li

This paper studies two crucial problems in the context of coded distributed storage systems directly related to their performance: 1) for a fixed alphabet size, determine the minimum number of servers the system must have for its service…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Altan B. Kilic , Alberto Ravagnani , Emina Soljanin

Coded caching schemes are used to reduce computer network traffics in peak time. To determine the efficiency of the schemes, \cite{MN} defined the information rate of the schemes and gave a construction of optimal coded caching schemes.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Ruizhong Wei

This paper concerns non-overlapping codes, block codes motivated by synchronisation and DNA-based storage applications. Most existing constructions of these codes do not account for the restrictions posed by the physical properties of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Lidija Stanovnik , Miha Moškon , Miha Mraz

Caching is a promising solution to satisfy the ongoing explosive demands for multi-media traffics. Recently, Maddah-Ali and Niesen proposed both centralized and de-centralized coded caching schemes, which are able to attain significant…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Qifa Yan , Xiaohu Tang , Qingchun Chen

This paper investigates the problem of variable-length lossy source coding allowing a positive excess distortion probability and an overflow probability of codeword lengths. Novel one-shot achievability and converse bounds of the optimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-17 Shota Saito , Hideki Yagi , Toshiyasu Matsushima