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We study the fundamental problem of index coding under an additional privacy constraint that requires each receiver to learn nothing more about the collection of messages beyond its demanded messages from the server and what is available to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Varun Narayanan , Jithin Ravi , Vivek K. Mishra , Bikash Kumar Dey , Nikhil Karamchandani , Vinod M. Prabhakaran

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

In this paper, we generalize the well-known index coding problem to exploit the structure in the source-data to improve system throughput. In many applications, the data to be transmitted may lie (or can be well approximated) in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Bhavya Kailkhura , Lakshmi Narasimhan Theagarajan , Pramod K. Varshney

In this paper, we will present a generalization for a minimization problem from I. Daubechies, M. Defrise, and C. Demol [3]. This generalization is useful for solving many practical problems in which more than one constraint are involved.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-20 Saman Khoramian

Information leakage to a guessing adversary in index coding is studied, where some messages in the system are sensitive and others are not. The non-sensitive messages can be used by the server like secret keys to mitigate leakage of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Yucheng Liu , Lawrence Ong , Phee Lep Yeoh , Parastoo Sadeghi , Joerg Kliewer , Sarah Johnson

Achievable and converse bounds for general channels and mismatched decoding are derived. The direct (achievable) bound is derived using random coding and the analysis is tight up to factor 2. The converse is given in term of the achievable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-20 Nir Elkayam , Meir Feder

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

In this paper, we propose a new scalar linear coding scheme for the index coding problem called update-based maximum column distance (UMCD) coding scheme. The central idea in each transmission is to code messages such that one of the…

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

Interference alignment (IA) is a widely recognized approach for mitigating inter-cell interference in multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks. Despite its effectiveness, practical deployment remains constrained by two…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-30 Samitha Gunarathne , Eslam Eldeeb , Nurul Huda Mahmood , Italo Atzeni

A general information transmission model, under independent and identically distributed Gaussian codebook and nearest neighbor decoding rule with processed channel output, is investigated using the performance metric of generalized mutual…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Wenyi Zhang , Yizhu Wang , Cong Shen , Ning Liang

We study the index coding problem in the presence of an eavesdropper, where the aim is to communicate without allowing the eavesdropper to learn any single message aside from the messages it may already know as side information. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Yuxin Liu , Badri N. Vellambi , Young-Han Kim , Parastoo Sadeghi

Pliable index coding considers a server with m messages, and n clients where each has as side information a subset of the messages. We seek to minimize the number of transmissions the server should make, so that each client receives (any)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-22 Linqi Song , Christina Fragouli

In this paper, linear index codes with multiple senders are studied, where every receiver receives encoded messages from all senders. A new fitting matrix for the multiple senders is proposed and it is proved that the minimum rank of the…

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

This paper revisits the problem of multi-agent consensus from a graph signal processing perspective. Describing a consensus protocol as a graph spectrum filter, we present an effective new approach to the analysis and design of consensus…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Jingwen Yi , Li Chai , Jingxin Zhang

We consider the special case of index coding over the Gaussian broadcast channel where each receiver has prior knowledge of a subset of messages at the transmitter and demands all the messages from the source. We propose a concatenated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-02 Lakshmi Natarajan , Yi Hong , Emanuele Viterbo

We continue the study of the communication complexity of gap cycle counting problems. These problems have been introduced by Verbin and Yu [SODA 2011] and have found numerous applications in proving streaming lower bounds. In the noisy gap…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Sepehr Assadi , Janani Sundaresan

The problem of inferring pair-wise and higher-order interactions in complex systems involving large numbers of interacting variables, from observational data, is fundamental to many fields. Known to the statistical physics community as the…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-01-01 Sjoerd Viktor Beentjes , Ava Khamseh

Index coding is often studied with the assumption that a single source has all the messages requested by the receivers. We refer to this as \emph{centralized} index coding. In contrast, this paper focuses on \emph{distributed} index coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-21 Parastoo Sadeghi

This work introduces a hypergraph formulation that generalizes the classical paradigm of Bar-Yossef et al. to the multi-sender index coding (MSIC) setting. Central to the model is a 4-regular side-information hypergraph G, a new adjacency…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Ali Khalesi , Petros Elia

Network alignment generalizes and unifies several approaches for forming a matching or alignment between the vertices of two graphs. We study a mathematical programming framework for network alignment problem and a sparse variation of it…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-11-03 Mohsen Bayati , David F. Gleich , Amin Saberi , Ying Wang