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Maddah-Ali and Niesen, in a seminal paper, introduced the notion of coded caching. The exact nature of the fundamental limits in this context has remained elusive even as several approximate characterizations have been found. A new optimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Vijith Kumar K P , Brijesh Kumar Rai , Tony Jacob

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

Coded caching aims to minimize the network's peak-time communication load by leveraging the information pre-stored in the local caches at the users. The original single file retrieval setting by Maddah-Ali and Niesen has been recently…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Yinbin Ma , Daniela Tuninetti

This paper considers the multiaccess coded caching systems formulated by Hachem et al., including a central server containing $N$ files connected to $K$ cache-less users through an error-free shared link, and $K$ cache-nodes, each equipped…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Minquan Cheng , Kai Wan , Dequan Liang , Mingming Zhang , Giuseppe Caire

Caching is popular technique in content delivery networks that allows for reductions in transmission rates from the content-hosting server to the end users. Coded caching is a generalization of conventional caching that considers the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-28 Li Tang , Aditya Ramamoorthy

The work by Maddah-Ali and Niesen demonstrated the benefits in reducing the transmission rate in a noiseless broadcast network by joint design of caching and delivery schemes. In their setup, each user learns the demands of all other users…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Sneha Kamath

We consider content caching between a service provider and multiple cache-enabled users, using the recently proposed modified coded caching scheme (MCCS) that provides an improved delivery strategy for random user requests. We develop the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-20 Yong Deng , Min Dong

Coded distributed computing (CDC), proposed by Li \emph{et al.}, offers significant potential for reducing the communication load in MapReduce computing systems. In cascaded CDC with $K$ nodes, $N$ input files, and $Q$ output functions,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Mingming Zhang , Youlong Wu , Minquan Cheng , Dianhua Wu

In this work, we study a noiseless broadcast link serving $K$ users whose requests arise from a library of $N$ files. Every user is equipped with a cache of size $M$ files each. It has been shown that by splitting all the files into packets…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-24 Karthikeyan Shanmugam , Mingyue Ji , Antonia M. Tulino , Jaime Llorca , Alexandros G. Dimakis

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

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

Information theoretic analysis of a coded caching system is considered, in which a server with a database of N equal-size files, each F bits long, serves K users. Each user is assumed to have a local cache that can store M files, i.e.,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-09 Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri , Qianqian Yang , Deniz Gunduz

In this work, we consider a slight variant of well known coded caching problem, referred as multi-access coded caching problem, where each user has access to $z$ neighboring caches in a cyclic wrap-around way. We present a placement and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Shanuja Sasi , B. Sundar Rajan

Coded caching schemes on broadcast networks with user caches help to offload traffic from peak times to off-peak times by prefetching information from the server to the users during off-peak times and thus serving the users more efficiently…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Hari Hara Suthan C , Ishani Chugh , Prasad Krishnan

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

The idea of coded caching for content distribution networks was introduced by Maddah-Ali and Niesen, who considered the canonical $(N, K)$ cache network in which a server with $N$ files satisfy the demands of $K$ users (equipped with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Vijith Kumar K P , Brijesh Kumar Rai , Tony Jacob

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

We consider a coded caching problem with multiple demands under a privacy constraint. In this problem, a server with access to \(N\) files serves \(K\) users over a shared link, and each user requests \(L\) distinct files. The privacy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Qinyi Lu , Nan Liu , Wei Kang

We consider the problem of data storage in a geographically distributed (or geo-distributed) network of servers (or nodes) where inter-node communication incurs certain round-trip delays. Every node serves a set of users who can request any…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-11 Srivathsa Acharya , P. Vijay Kumar , Viveck R. Cadambe

A decentralized coded caching scheme has been proposed by Maddah-Ali and Niesen, and has been shown to alleviate the load of networks. Recently, placement delivery array (PDA) was proposed to characterize the coded caching scheme. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Zhengming Zhang , Meng Hua , Chunguo Li , Yongming Huang , Luxi Yang