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Caching is a technique to reduce the communication load in peak hours by prefetching contents during off-peak hours. An information-theoretic framework for coded caching was introduced by Maddah-Ali and Niesen in a recent work, where it was…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Shuo Shao , Jesús Gómez-Vilardebó , Kai Zhang , Chao Tian

Recent advances in data analytics have enabled the accurate prediction of user access patterns, giving rise to the idea of packed caching delivering multiple co accessed data items together as a bundle. This improves caching efficiency, as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Suvarthi Sarkar , Aadarshraj Sah , Poddutoori Sweeya Reddy , Aryabartta Sahu

We study the problem of multi-access coded caching (MACC): a central server has $N$ files, $K$ ($K \leq N$) caches each of which stores $M$ out of the $N$ files, $K$ users each of which demands one out of the $N$ files, and each user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Niladri Das , B. Sundar Rajan

Maddah-Ali and Niesen (MAN) in 2014 surprisingly showed that it is possible to serve an arbitrarily large number of cache-equipped users with a constant number of transmissions by using coded caching in shared-link broadcast networks. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Kai Wan , Mingyue Ji , Pablo Piantanida , Daniela Tuninetti

In wireless networks, coded caching is an effective technique to reduce network congestion during peak traffic times. Recently, a new concept called placement delivery array (PDA) was proposed to characterize the coded caching scheme. So…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Minquan Cheng , Jing Jiang , Qifa Yan , Xiaohu Tang , Haitao Cao

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

The centralized coded caching scheme is a technique proposed by Maddah-Ali and Niesen as a solution to reduce the network burden in peak times in a wireless system. Later Yan et al. reformulated the problem as designing a corresponding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Chong Shangguan , Yiwei Zhang , Gennian Ge

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

Existing designs for content dissemination do not fully explore and exploit potential caching and computation capabilities in advanced wireless networks. In this paper, we propose two partition-based caching designs, i.e., a coded caching…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Dongdong Jiang , Ying Cui

Caching is a technique to reduce peak traffic rates by prefetching popular content into memories at the end users. Conventionally, these memories are used to deliver requested content in part from a locally cached copy rather than through…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-06 Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , Urs Niesen

Erasure codes have been widely considered a promising solution to enhance data reliability at low storage costs. However, in modern geo-distributed storage systems, erasure codes may incur high data access latency as they require data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Kaiyang Liu , Jun Peng , Jingrong Wang , Jianping Pan

The deployment of small cells is expected to gain huge momentum in the near future, as a solution for managing the skyrocketing mobile data demand growth. Local caching of popular files at the small cell base stations has been recently…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-03-03 Konstantinos Poularakis , George Iosifidis , Vasilis Sourlas , Leandros Tassiulas

The coded caching scheme proposed by Maddah-Ali and Niesen (MAN) transmits coded multicast messages to users equipped with caches and it is known to be optimal within a constant factor. This work extends this caching scheme to two-hop relay…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Mozhgan Bayat , Kai Wan , Giuseppe Caire

We study downlink beamforming in a single-cell network with a multi-antenna base station serving cache-enabled users. Assuming a library of files with a common rate, we formulate the minimum transmit power with proactive caching and coded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Junlin Zhao , Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri , Deniz Gündüz

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

Maximum coverage and minimum set cover problems --collectively called coverage problems-- have been studied extensively in streaming models. However, previous research not only achieve sub-optimal approximation factors and space…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-13 Mohammadhossein Bateni , Hossein Esfandiari , Vahab Mirrokni

Device-to-device (D2D) communication is a promising approach to optimize the utilization of air interface resources in 5G networks, since it allows decentralized opportunistic short-range communication. For D2D to be useful, mobile nodes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Derya Malak , Mazin Al-Shalash , Jeffrey G. Andrews

In-network caching is an appealing solution to cope with the increasing bandwidth demand of video, audio and data transfer over the Internet. Nonetheless, an increasing share of content delivery services adopt encryption through HTTPS,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-06-28 Andrea Araldo , Gyorgy Dan , Dario Rossi

In this paper, we consider the problem of minimizing the maximum broadcast decoding delay experienced by all the receivers of generalized instantly decodable network coding (IDNC). Unlike the sum decoding delay, the maximum decoding delay…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-02 Ahmed Douik , Sameh Sorour , Mohamed-Slim Alouini , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

In this paper, we present a novel mobile edge computing (MEC) model where the MEC server has the input and output data of all computation tasks and communicates with multiple caching-and-computing-enabled mobile devices via a shared…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Yaping Sun , Zhiyong Chen , Meixia Tao , Hui Liu