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We consider the problem of symmetric private information retrieval (SPIR) with user-side common randomness. In SPIR, a user retrieves a message out of $K$ messages from $N$ non-colluding and replicated databases in such a way that no single…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Zhusheng Wang , Sennur Ulukus

Consider Private Information Retrieval (PIR), where a client wants to retrieve one file out of $K$ files that are replicated in $N$ different servers and the client selection must remain private when up to $T$ servers may collude.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Hassan ZivariFard , Remi A. Chou

This paper revisits the problem of multi-server Private Information Retrieval with Private Side Information (PIR-PSI). In this problem, $N$ non-colluding servers store identical copies of $K$ messages, each comprising $L$ symbols from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Leila Erhili , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh

This paper considers the problem of multi-server Private Linear Computation, under the joint and individual privacy guarantees. In this problem, identical copies of a dataset comprised of $K$ messages are stored on $N$ non-colluding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Nahid Esmati , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh

Private information retrieval (PIR) is the problem of retrieving as efficiently as possible, one out of $K$ messages from $N$ non-communicating replicated databases (each holds all $K$ messages) while keeping the identity of the desired…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Hua Sun , Syed A. Jafar

We present a private information retrieval (PIR) scheme that allows a user to retrieve a single message from an arbitrary number of databases by colluding with other users while hiding the desired message index. This scheme is of particular…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-29 William Barnhart , Zhi Tian

We consider the problem of $T$-Private Information Retrieval with private side information (TPIR-PSI). In this problem, $N$ replicated databases store $K$ independent messages, and a user, equipped with a local cache that holds $M$ messages…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Zhen Chen , Zhiying Wang , Syed Jafar

We consider the problem of private information retrieval (PIR) over a distributed storage system. The storage system consists of $N$ non-colluding databases, each storing a coded version of $M$ messages. In the PIR problem, the user wishes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-27 Karim Banawan , Sennur Ulukus

In Pliable Private Information Retrieval (PPIR) with a single server, messages are partitioned into $\Gamma$ non-overlapping classes. The user wants to retrieve a message from its desired class without revealing the identity of the desired…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Megha Rayer , Charul Rajput , B. Sundar Rajan

In recent years, the Multi-message Private Information Retrieval (MPIR) problem has received significant attention from the research community. In this problem, a user wants to privately retrieve $D$ messages out of $K$ messages whose…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Ningze Wang , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Alex Sprintson

We consider the problem of multi-message private information retrieval (MPIR) from $N$ non-communicating replicated databases. In MPIR, the user is interested in retrieving $P$ messages out of $M$ stored messages without leaking the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Karim Banawan , Sennur Ulukus

In the private information retrieval (PIR) problem a user wishes to retrieve, as efficiently as possible, one out of $K$ messages from $N$ non-communicating databases (each holds all $K$ messages) while revealing nothing about the identity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Hua Sun , Syed A. Jafar

We study the capacity of quantum private information retrieval (QPIR) with multiple servers. In the QPIR problem with multiple servers, a user retrieves a classical file by downloading quantum systems from multiple servers each of which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-21 Seunghoan Song , Masahito Hayashi

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) problem has recently attracted a significant interest in the information-theory community. In this problem, a user wants to privately download one or more messages belonging to a database with copies…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Swanand Kadhe , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Alex Sprintson , O. Ozan Koyluoglu

The private search problem is introduced, where a dataset comprised of $L$ i.i.d. records is replicated across $N$ non-colluding servers, each record takes values uniformly from an alphabet of size $K$, and a user wishes to search for all…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-19 Zhen Chen , Zhiying Wang , Syed Jafar

In this paper, the problem of providing privacy to users requesting data over a network from a distributed storage system (DSS) is considered. The DSS, which is considered as the multi-terminal destination of the network from the user's…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Razane Tajeddine , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Camilla Hollanti

Private information retrieval (PIR) is the problem of retrieving as efficiently as possible, one out of $K$ messages from $N$ non-communicating replicated databases (each holds all $K$ messages) while keeping the identity of the desired…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Hua Sun , Syed A. Jafar

A \emph{private proximity retrieval} (\emph{PPR}) scheme is a protocol which allows a user to retrieve the identities of all records in a database that are within some distance $r$ from the user's record $x$. The user's \emph{privacy} at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-09 Yiwei Zhang , Eitan Yaakobi , Tuvi Etzion

Quantum private information retrieval (QPIR) is a protocol in which a user retrieves one of multiple files from $\mathsf{n}$ non-communicating servers by downloading quantum systems without revealing which file is retrieved. As variants of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-23 Seunghoan Song , Masahito Hayashi

This paper considers the single-server Private Linear Transformation (PLT) problem with individual privacy guarantees. In this problem, there is a user that wishes to obtain $L$ independent linear combinations of a $D$-subset of messages…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Nahid Esmati , Alex Sprintson