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We consider the problem of private information retrieval (PIR) of a single message out of $K$ messages from $N$ non-colluding and non-replicated databases. Different from the majority of the existing literature, which considers the case of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-03 Karim Banawan , Sennur Ulukus

We consider both the classical and quantum variations of $X$-secure, $E$-eavesdropped and $T$-colluding symmetric private information retrieval (SPIR). This is the first work to study SPIR with $X$-security in classical or quantum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Alptug Aytekin , Mohamed Nomeir , Sajani Vithana , Sennur Ulukus

In quantum private information retrieval (QPIR), a user retrieves a classical file from multiple servers by downloading quantum systems without revealing the identity of the file. The QPIR capacity is the maximal achievable ratio of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Matteo Allaix , Seunghoan Song , Lukas Holzbaur , Tefjol Pllaha , Masahito Hayashi , Camilla Hollanti

We study the problem of Private Information Retrieval (PIR) in the presence of prior side information. The problem setup includes a database of $K$ independent messages possibly replicated on several servers, and a user that needs to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-04 Swanand Kadhe , Brenden Garcia , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Salim El Rouayheb , Alex Sprintson

We consider the storage problem in an asymmetric $X$-secure private information retrieval (A-XPIR) setting. The A-XPIR setting considers the $X$-secure PIR problem (XPIR) when a given arbitrary set of servers is communicating. We focus on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Mohamed Nomeir , Sennur Ulukus

This paper revisits the problems of Private Information Retrieval (PIR) and Symmetric PIR (SPIR). In PIR, a user retrieves a desired message from $N$ replicated, non-communicating databases, each storing the same $M$ messages, while…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Or Elimelech , Asaf Cohen

In the conventional robust $T$-colluding private information retrieval (PIR) system, the user needs to retrieve one of the possible messages while keeping the identity of the requested message private from any $T$ colluding servers.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Ruida Zhou , Chao Tian , Hua Sun , James Plank

Consider Private Information Retrieval (PIR), where a client wants to retrieve one file out of $K$ files that are replicated in $N$ different servers and the client selection must remain private when up to $T$ servers may collude.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Hassan ZivariFard , Remi A. Chou

In this paper, we consider the multi-server setting of Private Information Retrieval with Private Coded Side Information (PIR-PCSI) problem. In this problem, there is a database of $K$ messages whose copies are replicated across $N$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Fatemeh Kazemi , Esmaeil Karimi , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Alex Sprintson

In the classical private information retrieval (PIR) setup, a user wants to retrieve a file from a database or a distributed storage system (DSS) without revealing the file identity to the servers holding the data. In the quantum PIR (QPIR)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Matteo Allaix , Lukas Holzbaur , Tefjol Pllaha , Camilla Hollanti

We consider a special case of $X$-secure $T$-private information retrieval (XSTPIR), where the security requirement is \emph{asymmetric} due to possible missing communication links between the $N$ databases considered in the system. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Mohamed Nomeir , Sajani Vithana , Sennur Ulukus

We introduce the problem of private computation, comprised of $N$ distributed and non-colluding servers, $K$ independent datasets, and a user who wants to compute a function of the datasets privately, i.e., without revealing which function…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Hua Sun , Syed A. Jafar

In Private Information Retrieval (PIR), one wants to download a file from a database without revealing to the database which file is being downloaded. Much attention has been paid to the case of the database being encoded across several…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-23 Razane Tajeddine , Oliver W. Gnilke , David Karpuk , Ragnar Freij-Hollanti , Camilla Hollanti , Salim El Rouayheb

We consider the problem of private information retrieval (PIR) from MDS coded databases with colluding servers, i.e., MDS-TPIR. In the MDS-TPIR setting, $M$ files are stored across $N$ servers, where each file is stored independently using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Rui Sun , Ran Tao , Jingke Xu , Yiwei Zhang

Double blind $T$-private information retrieval (DB-TPIR) enables two users, each of whom specifies an index ($\theta_1, \theta_2$, resp.), to efficiently retrieve a message $W(\theta_1,\theta_2)$ labeled by the two indices, from a set of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Yuxiang Lu , Zhuqing Jia , Syed A. Jafar

The problem of Multi-user Blind $X$-secure $T$-colluding Symmetric Private Information Retrieval from Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) coded storage system with $B$ Byzantine and $U$ unresponsive servers (U-B-MDS-MB-XTSPIR) is studied in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Jinbao Zhu , Qifa Yan , Xiaohu Tang

We study the private information retrieval (PIR) problem under arbitrary collusion pattern for replicated databases. We find its capacity, which is the same as the capacity of the original PIR problem with the number of databases $N$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Xinyu Yao , Nan Liu , Wei Kang

We consider the problem of private information retrieval (PIR) of a single message out of $K$ messages from $N$ replicated and non-colluding databases where a cache-enabled user (retriever) of cache-size $M$ possesses side information in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Yi-Peng Wei , Karim Banawan , Sennur Ulukus

Multi-server single-message private information retrieval is studied in the presence of side information. In this problem, $K$ independent messages are replicatively stored at $N$ non-colluding servers. The user wants to privately download…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Su Li , Michael Gastpar

The problem of $T$-colluding private information retrieval (PIR) enables the user to retrieve one out of $M$ files from a distributed storage system with $N$ servers without revealing anything about the index of the desired file to any…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Jinbao Zhu , Xiaohu Tang