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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

In the traditional index coding problem, a server employs coding to send messages to $n$ clients within the same broadcast domain. Each client already has some messages as side information and requests a particular unknown message from the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Mohammed Karmoose , Linqi Song , Martina Cardone , Christina Fragouli

The index coding problem is a fundamental transmission problem which occurs in a wide range of multicast networks. Network coding over a large finite field size has been shown to be a theoretically efficient solution to the index coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-01 Jalaluddin Qureshi , Chuan Heng Foh , Jianfei Cai

The \emph{index coding} problem has recently attracted a significant attention from the research community due to its theoretical significance and applications in wireless ad-hoc networks. An instance of the index coding problem includes a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-10-02 Salim Y. El Rouayheb , Alex Sprintson , Costas N. Georghiades

The index coding problem involves a sender with K messages to be transmitted across a broadcast channel, and a set of receivers each of which demands a subset of the K messages while having prior knowledge of a different subset as side…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Lakshmi Natarajan , Yi Hong , Emanuele Viterbo

An index coding problem arises when there is a single source with a number of messages and multiple receivers each wanting a subset of messages and knowing a different set of messages a priori. The noiseless Index Coding Problem is to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-13 Kavitha R. , Niranjana Ambadi , B. Sundar Rajan

This paper studies a special class of multicast index coding problems where a sender transmits messages to multiple receivers, each with some side information. Here, each receiver knows a unique message a priori, and there is no restriction…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-12-04 Lawrence Ong , Chin Keong Ho

Using a broadcast channel to transmit clients' data requests may impose privacy risks. In this paper, we address such privacy concerns in the index coding framework. We show how a malicious client can infer some information about the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Mohammed Karmoose , Linqi Song , Martina Cardone , Christina Fragouli

We approach index coding as a special case of rate-distortion with multiple receivers, each with some side information about the source. Specifically, using techniques developed for the rate-distortion problem, we provide two upper bounds…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-28 Sinem Unal , Aaron B. Wagner

Given a graph and a subset of its nodes, referred to as source nodes, the minimum broadcast problem asks for the minimum number of steps in which a signal can be transmitted from the sources to all other nodes in the graph. In each step,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-10 Marika Ivanova , Dag Haugland , Bård Hennning Tvedt

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 index coding problem includes a server, a group of clients, and a set of data chunks. While each client wants a subset of the data chunks and already has another subset as its side information, the server transmits some uncoded data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Yu-Pin Hsu , I-Hong Hou , Alex Sprintson

Insufficiency of linear coding for the network coding problem was first proved by providing an instance which is solvable only by nonlinear network coding (Dougherty et al., 2005).Based on the work of Effros, et al., 2015, this specific…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Arman Sharififar , Parastoo Sadeghi , Neda Aboutorab

In this paper, new index coding problems are studied, where each receiver has erroneous side information. Although side information is a crucial part of index coding, the existence of erroneous side information has not yet been considered.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Jae-Won Kim , Jong-Seon No

Consider a communication scenario over a noiseless channel where a sender is required to broadcast messages to multiple receivers, each having side information about some messages. In this scenario, the sender can leverage the receivers'…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Chandra Thapa , Lawrence Ong , Sarah J. Johnson

We consider a rate-distortion problem with side information at multiple decoders. Several upper and lower bounds have been proposed for this general problem or special cases of it. We provide an upper bound for general instances of this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Sinem Unal , Aaron B. Wagner

In this paper, a general algorithm is proposed for rate analysis and code design of linear index coding problems. Specifically a solution for minimum rank matrix completion problem over finite fields representing the linear index coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-14 Homa Esfahanizadeh , Farshad Lahouti , Babak Hassibi

This paper considers the source coding problem with broadcast side information. The side information is sent to two receivers through a noisy broadcast channel. We provide an outer bound of the rate--distortion--bandwidth (RDB) quadruples…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Yiqi Chen , Holger Boche , Marc Geitz

This work addresses the $K$-user computation broadcast problem consisting of a master node, that holds all datasets and users for a general class of function demands, including linear and non-linear functions, over finite fields. The master…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Mohammad Reza Deylam Salehi , Vijith Kumar Kizhakke Purakkal , Derya Malak

We consider the \emph{functional index coding problem} over an error-free broadcast network in which a source generates a set of messages and there are multiple receivers, each holding a set of functions of source messages in its cache,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-10 Anindya Gupta , B. Sundar Rajan