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A new scheme for the problem of centralized coded caching with non-uniform demands is proposed. The distinguishing feature of the proposed placement strategy is that it admits equal sub-packetization for all files while allowing the users…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Saeid Sahraei , Pierre Quinton , Michael Gastpar

In geographically-distributed systems, communication latencies are non-negligible. The perceived processing time of a request is thus composed of the time needed to route the request to the server and the true processing time. Once a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-02-11 Piotr Skowron , Krzysztof Rzadca

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

Coded caching scheme, which is an effective technique to increase the transmission efficiency during peak traffic times, has recently become quite popular among the coding community. Generally rate can be measured to the transmission in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Minquan Cheng , Qifa Yan , Xiaohu Tang , Jing Jiang

The importance of content delivery networks (CDN) continues to rise with the exponential increase in the generation and consumption of electronic media. In order to ensure a high quality of experience, CDNs often deploy cache servers that…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Srujan Teja Thomdapu , Palash Katiyar , Ketan Rajawat

Motivated by applications to delivery of dynamically updated, but correlated data in settings such as content distribution networks, and distributed file sharing systems, we study a single source multiple destination network coded multicast…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-02 Milad Mahdian , N. Prakash , Muriel Médard , Edmund Yeh

We propose a new caching scheme where linear combinations of the file segments are cached at the users, for the cases where the number of files is no greater than the number of users. When a user requests a certain file in the delivery…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-02 Chao Tian , Jun Chen

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

We consider the problem of delivering content cached in a wireless network of n nodes randomly located on a square of area n. The network performance is described by the n2^n-dimensional caching capacity region of the wireless network. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-28 Urs Niesen , Devavrat Shah , Gregory Wornell

Coded caching utilizes proper file subpacketization and coded delivery to make full use of the multicast opportunities in content delivery, to alleviate file transfer load in massive content delivery scenarios. Most existing work considers…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Jialing Liao , Olav Tirkkonen

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

Coded multicasting has been shown to be a promis- ing approach to significantly improve the caching performance of content delivery networks with multiple caches downstream of a common multicast link. However, achievable schemes proposed to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-25 Giuseppe Vettigli , Mingyue Ji , Antonia M. Tulino , Jaime Llorca , Paola Festa

The performance of existing coded caching schemes is sensitive to the worst channel quality, a problem which is exacerbated when communicating over fading channels. In this paper, we address this limitation in the following manner: in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Apostolos Destounis , Asma Ghorbel , Georgios S. Paschos , Mari Kobayashi

Edge-caching has received much attention as an efficient technique to reduce delivery latency and network congestion during peak-traffic times by bringing data closer to end users. Existing works usually design caching algorithms separately…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-08 Thang X. Vu , Symeon Chatzinotas , Bjorn Ottersten

A fundamental challenge in large-scale networked systems viz., data centers and cloud networks is to distribute tasks to a pool of servers, using minimal instantaneous state information, while providing excellent delay performance. In this…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-09-07 Debankur Mukherjee

Network cache allocation and management are important aspects of the design of an Information-Centric Network (ICN), such as one based on Named Data Networking (NDN). We address the problem of optimal cache size allocation and content…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-13 Van Sy Mai , Stratis Ioannidis , Davide Pesavento , Lotfi Benmohamed

Load balancing plays a critical role in efficiently dispatching jobs in parallel-server systems such as cloud networks and data centers. A fundamental challenge in the design of load balancing algorithms is to achieve an optimal trade-off…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Mark van der Boor , Sem Borst , Johan van Leeuwaarden

Coded caching and device-to-device (D2D) communication are two effective techniques for alleviating network traffic. Secure transmission and file privacy have also become critical concerns in these domains. However, prevailing coded caching…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Qiaoling Zhang , Changlu Lin , Minquan Cheng

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

The capacity of caching networks has received considerable attention in the past few years. A particularly studied setting is the case of a single server (e.g., a base station) and multiple users, each of which caches segments of files in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-30 Mingyue Ji , Antonia M. Tulino , Jaime Llorca , Giuseppe Caire