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Distributed computing, in which a resource-intensive task is divided into subtasks and distributed among different machines, plays a key role in solving large-scale problems. Coded computing is a recently emerging paradigm where redundancy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Hoang Dau , Ryan Gabrys , Yu-Chih Huang , Chen Feng , Quang-Hung Luu , Eidah Alzahrani , Zahir Tari

This paper explores the multi-access distributed computing (MADC) model, a novel distributed computing framework where mapper and reducer nodes are distinct entities. Unlike traditional MapReduce frameworks, MADC leverages coding-theoretic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Shanuja Sasi , Onur Günlü

We consider load balancing in a network of caching servers delivering contents to end users. Randomized load balancing via the so-called power of two choices is a well-known approach in parallel and distributed systems. In this framework,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-03 Mahdi Jafari Siavoshani , Ali Pourmiri , Seyed Pooya Shariatpanahi

A critical challenge for modern system design is meeting the overwhelming performance, storage, and communication bandwidth demand of emerging applications within a tightly bound power budget. As both the time and power, hence the energy,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Ismail Akturk , Ulya R. Karpuzcu

We consider a MapReduce-type task running in a distributed computing model which consists of ${K}$ edge computing nodes distributed across the edge of the network and a Master node that assists the edge nodes to compute output functions.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Haoning Chen , Youlong Wu

Distributed computing has become a common approach for large-scale computation of tasks due to benefits such as high reliability, scalability, computation speed, and costeffectiveness. However, distributed computing faces critical issues…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Jer Shyuan Ng , Wei Yang Bryan Lim , Nguyen Cong Luong , Zehui Xiong , Alia Asheralieva , Dusit Niyato , Cyril Leung , Chunyan Miao

Placement delivery arrays for distributed computing (Comp-PDAs) have recently been proposed as a framework to construct universal computing schemes for MapReduce-like systems. In this work, we extend this concept to systems with straggling…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Qifa Yan , Michèle Wigger , Sheng Yang , Xiaohu Tang

Today's data centers have an abundance of computing resources, hosting server clusters consisting of as many as tens or hundreds of thousands of machines. To execute a complex computing task over a data center, it is natural to distribute…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-24 Qian Yu , Songze Li , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , A. Salman Avestimehr

We consider a distributed computing framework where the distributed nodes have different communication capabilities, motivated by the heterogeneous networks in data centers and mobile edge computing systems. Following the structure of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Nishant Shakya , Fan Li , Jinyuan Chen

Data shuffling between distributed cluster of nodes is one of the critical steps in implementing large-scale learning algorithms. Randomly shuffling the data-set among a cluster of workers allows different nodes to obtain fresh data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Mohamed A. Attia , Ravi Tandon

Inspired by Costa's pioneering work on dirty paper coding (DPC), this paper proposes a novel scheme for integrated communication and computing (ICC), named Computing on Dirty Paper, whereby the transmission of discrete data symbols for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-03 Kuranage Roche Rayan Ranasinghe , Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu , David González G. , Carlo Fischione

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

This paper studies the distributed linearly separable computation problem, which is a generalization of many existing distributed computing problems such as distributed gradient descent and distributed linear transform. In this problem, a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Kai Wan , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire

Several network communication problems are highly related such as coded caching and distributed computation. The centralized coded caching focuses on reducing the network burden in peak times in a wireless network system and the coded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Min Xu , Zixiang Xu , Gennian Ge , Min-Qian Liu

Performance of distributed graph processing systems significantly suffers from 'communication bottleneck' as a large number of messages are exchanged among servers at each step of the computation. Motivated by graph based MapReduce, we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Saurav Prakash , Amirhossein Reisizadeh , Ramtin Pedarsani , Amir Salman Avestimehr

This paper formulates a distributed computation problem, where a master asks $N$ distributed workers to compute a linearly separable function. The task function can be expressed as $K_c$ linear combinations of $K$ messages, where each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Kai Wan , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire

Large scale clusters leveraging distributed computing frameworks such as MapReduce routinely process data that are on the orders of petabytes or more. The sheer size of the data precludes the processing of the data on a single computer. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-12 Konstantinos Konstantinidis , Aditya Ramamoorthy

This paper considers the MapReduce-like coded distributed computing framework originally proposed by Li et al., which uses coding techniques when distributed computing servers exchange their computed intermediate values, in order to reduce…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Kai Wan , Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire

Coded distributed computing (CDC) introduced by Li \emph{et al.} can greatly reduce the communication load for MapReduce computing systems. In the general cascaded CDC with $K$ workers, $N$ input files and $Q$ Reduce functions, each input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Minquan Cheng , Youlong Wu , Xianxian Li , Dianhua Wu

Motivated by mobile edge computing and wireless data centers, we study a wireless distributed computing framework where the distributed nodes exchange information over a wireless interference network. Our framework follows the structure of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-19 Fan Li , Jinyuan Chen , Zhiying Wang