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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

In large scale distributed computing systems, communication overhead is one of the major bottlenecks. In the map-shuffle-reduce framework, which is one of the major distributed computing frameworks, the communication load among servers can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Shunsuke Horii

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

Consider a distributed computing system in which the worker nodes are connected over a shared wireless channel. Nodes can store a fraction of the data set over which computation needs to be carried out, and a Map-Shuffle-Reduce protocol is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Sukjong Ha , Jingjing Zhang , Osvaldo Simeone , Joonhyuk Kang

Coded distributed computing framework enables large-scale machine learning (ML) models to be trained efficiently in a distributed manner, while mitigating the straggler effect. In this work, we consider a multi-task assignment problem in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Yuxuan Sun , Junlin Zhao , Sheng Zhou , Deniz Gündüz

This paper investigates distributed computing systems where computations are split into "Map" and "Reduce" functions. A new coded scheme, called distributed computing and coded communication (D3C), is proposed, and its communication load is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Qifa Yan , Sheng Yang , Michèle Wigger

We study the optimal design of a heterogeneous coded elastic computing (CEC) network where machines have varying relative computation speeds. CEC introduced by Yang {\it et al.} is a framework which mitigates the impact of elastic events,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Nicholas Woolsey , Rong-Rong Chen , Mingyue Ji

Recently, coding has been a useful technique to mitigate the effect of stragglers in distributed computing. However, coding in this context has been mainly explored under the assumption of homogeneous workers, although the real-world…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-18 DaeJin Kim , Hyegyeong Park , Junkyun Choi

The emerging large-scale and data-hungry algorithms require the computations to be delegated from a central server to several worker nodes. One major challenge in the distributed computations is to tackle delays and failures caused by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Alejandro Cohen , Guillaume Thiran , Homa Esfahanizadeh , Muriel Médard

Deploying Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) on resource-constrained devices necessitates efficient management of computational resources, often via distributed environments susceptible to latency from straggler nodes. This paper…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Shuo Tan , Rui Liu , Xuesong Han , XianLei Long , Kai Wan , Linqi Song , Yong Li

We study the optimal design of heterogeneous Coded Elastic Computing (CEC) where machines have varying computation speeds and storage. CEC introduced by Yang et al. in 2018 is a framework that mitigates the impact of elastic events, where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Nicholas Woolsey , Rong-Rong Chen , Mingyue Ji

To improve the utility of learning applications and render machine learning solutions feasible for complex applications, a substantial amount of heavy computations is needed. Thus, it is essential to delegate the computations among several…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Homa Esfahanizadeh , Alejandro Cohen , Muriel Medard

Collaborative mobile edge computing (MEC) has emerged as a promising paradigm to enable low-capability edge nodes to cooperatively execute computation-intensive tasks. However, straggling edge nodes (stragglers) significantly degrade the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Houming Qiu , Kun Zhu , Dusit Niyato , Nguyen Cong Luong , Changyan Yi , Chen Dai

Distributed computing enables large-scale computation tasks to be processed over multiple workers in parallel. However, the randomness of communication and computation delays across workers causes the straggler effect, which may degrade the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Yuxuan Sun , Fan Zhang , Junlin Zhao , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu , Deniz Gündüz

Coded distributed computing (CDC) has emerged as a promising approach because it enables computation tasks to be carried out in a distributed manner while mitigating straggler effects, which often account for the long overall completion…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Jer Shyuan Ng , Wei Yang Bryan Lim , Zehui Xiong , Dusit Niyato , Cyril Leung , Dong In Kim , Junshan Zhang , Qiang Yang

We propose a unified coded framework for distributed computing with straggling servers, by introducing a tradeoff between "latency of computation" and "load of communication" for some linear computation tasks. We show that the coded scheme…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Songze Li , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , A. Salman Avestimehr

This work explores a distributed computing setting where $K$ nodes are assigned fractions (subtasks) of a computational task in order to perform the computation in parallel. In this setting, a well-known main bottleneck has been the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Emanuele Parrinello , Eleftherios Lampiris , Petros Elia

MapReduce is a commonly used framework for executing data-intensive jobs on distributed server clusters. We introduce a variant implementation of MapReduce, namely "Coded MapReduce", to substantially reduce the inter-server communication…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Songze Li , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , A. Salman Avestimehr

Coded distributed computing can alleviate the communication load by leveraging the redundant storage and computation resources with coding techniques in distributed computing. In this paper, we study a MapReduce-type distributed computing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Qifa Yan , Xiaohu Tang , Meixia Tao , Qin Huang

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