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A major drawback of many PIR schemes is the highcomputational cost at the servers. We present a scheme that usesonly operations in the prime field during response generation.For binary extension fields this leads to schemes that only…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Christian J. Lex , Oliver W. Gnilke

Random linear network codes can be designed and implemented in a distributed manner, with low computational complexity. However, these codes are classically implemented over finite fields whose size depends on some global network parameters…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-08-04 Tracey Ho , Sidharth Jaggi , Svitlana Vyetrenko , Lingxiao Xia

We consider the problem of private information retrieval (PIR) from $N$ non-colluding and replicated databases when the user is equipped with a cache that holds an uncoded fraction $r$ from each of the $K$ stored messages in the databases.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Yi-Peng Wei , Karim Banawan , Sennur Ulukus

It was recently shown by Fazeli et al. that the storage overhead of a traditional $t$-server private information retrieval (PIR) protocol can be significantly reduced using the concept of a $t$-server PIR code. In this work, we show that a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Hsuan-Yin Lin , Eirik Rosnes

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

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

We consider the problem of geographically distributed data storage in a network of servers (or nodes) where the nodes are connected to each other via communication links having certain round-trip times (RTTs). Each node serves a specific…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Srivathsa Acharya , P. Vijay Kumar , Viveck R. Cadambe

Retrieving up-to-date information from a publicly accessible database poses significant threats to the user's privacy. {\em Private information retrieval} (PIR) protocols allow a user to retrieve any entry from a database, without revealing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Liang Feng Zhang

The design of codes for feedback-enabled communications has been a long-standing open problem. Recent research on non-linear, deep learning-based coding schemes have demonstrated significant improvements in communication reliability over…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Junghoon Kim , Taejoon Kim , David Love , Christopher Brinton

We consider the problem of multi-access cache-aided multi-user Private Information Retrieval (MuPIR). In this problem, several files are replicated across multiple servers. There are $K$ users and $C$ cache nodes. Each user can access $L$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Kanishak Vaidya , B Sundar Rajan

Robust planning in interactive scenarios requires predicting the uncertain future to make risk-aware decisions. Unfortunately, due to long-tail safety-critical events, the risk is often under-estimated by finite-sampling approximations of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Haruki Nishimura , Jean Mercat , Blake Wulfe , Rowan McAllister , Adrien Gaidon

The continuously increasing amount of digital data generated by today's society asks for better storage solutions. This survey looks at a new generation of coding techniques designed specifically for the needs of distributed networked…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-01-31 Anwitaman Datta , Frederique Oggier

In this work, we study two-party interactive coding for adversarial noise, when both parties have limited memory. We show how to convert any adaptive protocol $\Pi$ into a protocol $\Pi'$ that is robust to an $\epsilon$-fraction of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Dorsa Fathollahi , Bernhard Haeupler , Nicolas Resch , Mary Wootters

In private information delivery (PID) problem, there are $K$ messages stored across $N$ servers, each capable of storing $M$ messages and a user. Servers want to convey one of the $K$ messages to the user without revealing the identity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Kanishak Vaidya , B Sundar Rajan

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) is a fundamental cryptographic primitive that enables users to retrieve data from a database without revealing which item is being accessed, thereby preserving query privacy. However, PIR protocols also…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Lin Zhu , Lingwei Kong , Xin Ning , Xiaoyang Qu , Jianzong Wang

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) schemes enable users to securely retrieve files from a server without disclosing the content of their queries, thereby preserving their privacy. In 2008, Melchor and Gaborit proposed a PIR scheme that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Svenja Lage

Suppose a database containing $M$ records is replicated across $N$ servers, and a user wants to privately retrieve one record by accessing the servers such that identity of the retrieved record is secret against any up to $T$ servers. A…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Zhifang Zhang , Jingke Xu

A major issue of locally repairable codes is their robustness. If a local repair group is not able to perform the repair process, this will result in increasing the repair cost. Therefore, it is critical for a locally repairable code to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Ali Tebbi , Terence H. Chan , Chi Wan Sung

We consider the problem of private information retrieval (PIR) from $N$ non-colluding and replicated databases, when the user is equipped with a cache that holds an uncoded fraction $r$ of the symbols from each of the $K$ stored messages in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-20 Yi-Peng Wei , Karim Banawan , Sennur Ulukus

There has been much recent interest in Private information Retrieval (PIR) in models where a database is stored across several servers using coding techniques from distributed storage, rather than being simply replicated. In particular, a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Simon Blackburn , Tuvi Etzion