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Motivated by applications in distributed storage and distributed computation, we introduce embedded index coding (EIC). EIC is a type of distributed index coding in which nodes in a distributed system act as both senders and receivers of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Alexandra Porter , Mary Wootters

We characterise bounds on the optimal broadcast rate for a few classes of pliable-index-coding instances. Unlike the majority of currently solved instances, which belong to a special class where all receivers with a certain side-information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Lawrence Ong , Badri N. Vellambi , Parastoo Sadeghi , Jörg Kliewer

We focus on the following instance of an index coding problem, where a set of receivers are required to decode multiple messages, whilst each knows one of the messages a priori. In particular, here we consider a generalized setting where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-13 Lawrence Ong , Fabian Lim , Chin Keong Ho

In the index coding problem a sender holds a message $x \in \{0,1\}^n$ and wishes to broadcast information to $n$ receivers in a way that enables the $i$th receiver to retrieve the $i$th bit $x_i$. Every receiver has prior side information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Ishay Haviv

The index coding problem is studied from an interference alignment perspective, providing new results as well as new insights into, and generalizations of, previously known results. An equivalence is established between multiple unicast…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-08 Hamed Maleki , Viveck R. Cadambe , Syed A. Jafar

In Index coding there is a single sender with multiple messages and multiple receivers each wanting a different set of messages and knowing a different set of messages a priori. The Index Coding problem is to identify the minimum number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Kavitha. R , B. Sundar Rajan

This paper considers a base station that delivers packets to multiple receivers through a sequence of coded transmissions. All receivers overhear the same transmissions. Each receiver may already have some of the packets as side…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-23 Hao Yu , Michael J. Neely

An index code for broadcast channel with receiver side information is locally decodable if each receiver can decode its demand by observing only a subset of the transmitted codeword symbols instead of the entire codeword. Local decodability…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Lakshmi Natarajan , Prasad Krishnan , V. Lalitha , Hoang Dau

The index coding problem studies the fundamental limit on broadcasting multiple messages to their respective receivers with different sets of side information that are represented by a directed graph. The generalized lexicographic product…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Fatemeh Arbabjolfaei , Young-Han Kim

An index code for a broadcast channel with receiver side information is 'locally decodable' if every receiver can decode its demand using only a subset of the codeword symbols transmitted by the sender instead of observing the entire…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Smiju Kodamthuruthil Joy , Lakshmi Natarajan

We consider the problem of minimizing the number of broadcasts for collecting all sensor measurements at a sink node in a noisy broadcast sensor network. Focusing first on arbitrary network topologies, we provide (i) fundamental limits on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-01 Yaoqing Yang , Soummya Kar , Pulkit Grover

The problem of multicasting two nested messages is studied over a class of networks known as combination networks. A source multicasts two messages, a common and a private message, to several receivers. A subset of the receivers (called the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-08 Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti , Vinod Prabhakaran , Suhas Diggavi

We consider a coded distributed computing problem in a ring-based communication network, where $N$ computing nodes are arranged in a ring topology and each node can only communicate with its neighbors within a constant distance $d$. To…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Zhenhao Huang , Minquan Cheng , Kai Wan , Qifu Tyler Sun , Youlong Wu

A distributed quantum storage code maps a quantum message to N storage nodes, of arbitrary specified sizes, such that the stored message is robust to an arbitrary specified set of erasure patterns. The sizes of the storage nodes, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Hua Sun , Syed A. Jafar

This letter investigates the role of index coding in the capacity of AWGN broadcast channels with receiver message side information. We first show that index coding is unnecessary where there are two receivers; multiplexing coding and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Behzad Asadi , Lawrence Ong , Sarah J. Johnson

Index coding achieves bandwidth savings by jointly encoding the messages demanded by all the clients in a broadcast channel. The encoding is performed in such a way that each client can retrieve its demanded message from its side…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-12 Lakshmi Natarajan , Prasad Krishnan , V. Lalitha

In this paper, we consider multiple cache-enabled clients connected to multiple servers through an intermediate network. We design several topology-aware coding strategies for such networks. Based on topology richness of the intermediate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Seyed Pooya Shariatpanahi , Seyed Abolfazl Motahari , Babak Hossein Khalaj

A state-dependent discrete memoryless multiple access channel is considered to model an integrated sensing and communication system, where two transmitters wish to convey messages to a receiver while simultaneously estimating the state…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Yao Liu , Min Li , An Liu , Lawrence Ong , Aylin Yener

We study the limits of communication efficiency for function computation in collocated networks within the framework of multi-terminal block source coding theory. With the goal of computing a desired function of sources at a sink, nodes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Nan Ma , Prakash Ishwar , Piyush Gupta

We consider the problem of multicasting information from a source to a set of receivers over a network where intermediate network nodes perform randomized network coding operations on the source packets. We propose a channel model for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-11-17 Mahdi Jafari Siavoshani , Soheil Mohajer , Christina Fragouli , Suhas Diggavi