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Content caching is a widely studied technique aimed to reduce the network load imposed by data transmission during peak time while ensuring users' quality of experience. It has been shown that when there is a common link between caches and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Abdollah Ghaffari Sheshjavani , Ahmad Khonsari , Seyed Pooya Shariatpanahi , Masoumeh Moradian

This paper comprehensively studies a content-centric mobile network based on a preference learning framework, where each mobile user is equipped with a finite-size cache. We consider a practical scenario where each user requests a content…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Adeel Malik , Joongheon Kim , Kwang Soon Kim , Won-Yong Shin

In this work, we study coded placement in caching systems where the users have unequal cache sizes and demonstrate its performance advantage. In particular, we propose a caching scheme with coded placement for three-user systems that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-12 Abdelrahman M. Ibrahim , Ahmed A. Zewail , Aylin Yener

Caching is a commonly used technique in content-delivery networks which aims to deliver information from hosting servers to users in the most efficient way. In 2014, Maddah-Ali and Niessen formulated caching into a formal information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Tai Do Duc , Shuo Shao , Chaoping Xing

In this paper, downlink delivery of popular content is optimized with the assistance of wireless cache nodes. Specifically, the requests of one file is modeled as a Poisson point process with finite lifetime, and two downlink transmission…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-04 Bojie Lv , Lexiang Huang , Rui Wang

Storage resources and caching techniques permeate almost every area of communication networks today. In the near future, caching is set to play an important role in storage-assisted Internet architectures, information-centric networks, and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Georgios Paschos , George Iosifidis , Giuseppe Caire

We study the decentralized caching scheme in a two-layer network, which includes a sever, multiple helpers, and multiple users. Basically, the proposed caching scheme consists of two phases, i.e, placement phase and delivery phase. In the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Lin Zhang , Zhao Wang , Ming Xiao , Gang Wu , Ying-Chaang Liang , Shaoqian Li

Decentralized optimization, particularly the class of decentralized composite convex optimization (DCCO) problems, has found many applications. Due to ubiquitous communication congestion and random dropouts in practice, it is highly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-12 Changxin Liu , Zirui Zhou , Jian Pei , Yong Zhang , Yang Shi

We consider a variant of the coded caching problem where users connect to two types of caches, called private caches and access caches. The problem setting consists of a server having a library of files and a set of access caches. Every…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Dhruv Pratap Singh , Anjana A. Mahesh , B. Sundar Rajan

Content-Centric Networking (CCN) offers a novel architectural paradigm that seeks to address the inherent limitations of the prevailing Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking model. In contrast to the host-centric communication approach of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Azadeh Sadat Miraftab , Ahmadreza Montazerolghaem , Behrad Mahboobi

We consider the secure coded caching problem proposed by Ravindrakumar et. al where no user can obtain information about files other than the one requested. We first propose three new schemes for the three cases of cache size $M=1$, $N=2$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Han Fang , Nan Liu , Wei Kang

Consensus is a common method for computing a function of the data distributed among the nodes of a network. Of particular interest is distributed average consensus, whereby the nodes iteratively compute the sample average of the data stored…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Ryan Pilgrim

We consider the problem of optimally compressing and caching data across a communication network. Given the data generated at edge nodes and a routing path, our goal is to determine the optimal data compression ratios and caching decisions…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Jian Li , Faheem Zafari , Don Towsley , Kin K. Leung , Ananthram Swami

Existing designs for content dissemination do not fully explore and exploit potential caching and computation capabilities in advanced wireless networks. In this paper, we propose two partition-based caching designs, i.e., a coded caching…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Dongdong Jiang , Ying Cui

We introduce a neighborhood-based data access model for distributed coded storage allocation. Storage nodes are connected in a generic network and data is accessed locally: a user accesses a randomly chosen storage node, which subsequently…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-12 Dusan Jakovetic , Aleksandar Minja , Dragana Bajovic , Dejan Vukobratovic

This work identifies the fundamental limits of Multi-Access Coded Caching (MACC) where each user is connected to multiple caches in a manner that follows a generalized combinatorial topology. This topology stands out as it allows for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Federico Brunero , Petros Elia

Coded caching aims to minimize the network's peak-time communication load by leveraging the information pre-stored in the local caches at the users. The original single file retrieval setting by Maddah-Ali and Niesen has been recently…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Yinbin Ma , Daniela Tuninetti

Content delivery networks store information distributed across multiple servers, so as to balance the load and avoid unrecoverable losses in case of node or disk failures. Coded caching has been shown to be a useful technique which can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Tianqiong Luo , Vaneet Aggarwal , Borja Peleato

We study the problem of coded caching when the server has access to several libraries and each user makes independent requests from every library. The single-library scenario has been well studied and it has been proved that coded caching…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-25 Saeid Sahraei , Michael Gastpar

We consider the decentralized minimization of a separable objective $\sum_{i=1}^{n} f_i(x_i)$, where the variables are coupled through an affine constraint $\sum_{i=1}^n\left(\mathbf{A}_i x_i - b_i\right) = 0$. We assume that the functions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Demyan Yarmoshik , Alexander Rogozin , Nikita Kiselev , Daniil Dorin , Alexander Gasnikov , Dmitry Kovalev