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Proactive content caching at user devices and coded delivery is studied considering a non-uniform file popularity distribution. A novel centralized uncoded caching and coded delivery scheme, which can be applied to large file libraries, is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Emre Ozfatura , Deniz Gunduz

For a network with one sender, $n$ receivers (users) and $m$ possible messages (files), caching side information at the users allows to satisfy arbitrary simultaneous demands by sending a common (multicast) coded message. In the worst-case…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-04 Mingyue Ji , Antonia M. Tulino , Jaime Llorca , Giuseppe Caire

We study the problem of coded caching with nonuniform file popularity under the setting where the popularity distribution is initially unknown. By reframing the problem, we propose a method inspired by an algorithm from the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Mohammadsaber Bahadori , Seyed Pooya Shariatpanahi , Behnam Bahrak

Recent work by Maddah-Ali and Niesen introduced coded caching which demonstrated the benefits of joint design of storage and transmission policies in content delivery networks. They studied a setup where a server communicates with a set of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-12 Vaishakh Ravindrakumar , Parthasarathi Panda , Nikhil Karamchandani , Vinod Prabhakaran

We consider a network consisting of a file server connected through a shared link to a number of users, each equipped with a cache. Knowing the popularity distribution of the files, the goal is to optimally populate the caches such as to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-23 Urs Niesen , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali

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. For the shared-link caching model, Maddah-Ali and Niesen (MAN)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Kai Wan , Giuseppe Caire

Caching is a commonly used technique in content-delivery networks which aims to deliver information from hosting servers to users in the most efficient way. In 2014, Maddah-Ali and Niessen formulated caching into a formal information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Tai Do Duc , Shuo Shao , Chaoping Xing

For a caching system with multiple users, we aim to characterize the memory-rate tradeoff for caching with uncoded cache placement, under nonuniform file popularity. Focusing on the modified coded caching scheme (MCCS) recently proposed by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Yong Deng , Min Dong

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 consider the canonical {\em shared link network} formed by a source node, hosting a library of $m$ information messages (files), connected via a noiseless common link to $n$ destination nodes (users), each with a cache of size M files.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-12 Mingyue Ji , Antonia M. Tulino , Jaime Llorca , Giuseppe Caire

We consider the coded caching problem with shared caches where several users share a cache, but each user has access to only a single cache. For this network, the fundamental limits of coded caching are known for centralized and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Elizabath Peter , B. Sundar Rajan

Coded caching can significantly reduce the communication bandwidth requirement for satisfying users' demands by utilizing the multicasting gain among multiple users. Most existing works assume that the users follow the prescriptions for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Seyed Mohammad Asghari , Yi Ouyang , Ashutosh Nayyar , A. Salman Avestimehr

This paper aims to characterize the memory-rate tradeoff for decentralized caching under nonuniform file popularity and size. We consider a recently proposed decentralized modified coded caching scheme (D-MCCS) and formulate the cache…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Yong Deng , Min Dong

This paper addresses the problem of exponentially increasing sub-packetization with the number of users in a centralized coded caching system by introducing a new coded caching scheme inspired by the symmetric neighboring consecutive side…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Anjana A. Mahesh , B. Sundar Rajan

Coded caching is a promising technique to create coded multicast opportunities for cache-aided networks. By splitting each file into $F$ equal packets (i.e., the subpacketization level $F$) and letting each user cache a set of packets, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Minquan Cheng , Yifei Huang , Youlong Wu , Jinyan Wang

Coded caching technique is an efficient approach to reduce the transmission load in networks and has been studied in heterogeneous network settings in recent years. In this paper, we consider a new widespread caching system called…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Minquan Cheng , Jinwei Xu , Mingming Zhang , Youlong Wu

Caching is an efficient way to reduce network traffic congestion during peak hours by storing some content at the users' local caches. For the shared-link network with end-user-caches, Maddah-Ali and Niesen proposed a two-phase coded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Kai Wan , Daniela Tuninetti , Mingyue Ji , Pablo Piantanida

To address the exponentially rising demand for wireless content, use of caching is emerging as a potential solution. It has been recently established that joint design of content delivery and storage (coded caching) can significantly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-01 Jad Hachem , Nikhil Karamchandani , Suhas Diggavi

Coded caching and delivery is studied taking into account the correlations among the contents in the library. Correlations are modeled as common parts shared by multiple contents; that is, each file in the database is composed of a group of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-13 Qianqian Yang , Deniz Gündüz

We consider content delivery over fading broadcast channels. A server wants to transmit K files to K users, each equipped with a cache of finite size. Using the coded caching scheme of Maddah-Ali and Niesen, we design an opportunistic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-09 Asma Ghorbel , Khac-Hoang Ngo , Richard Combes , Mari Kobayashi , Sheng Yang