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We consider the problem of private information retrieval (PIR) from $N$ non-colluding and replicated databases when the user is equipped with a cache that holds an uncoded fraction $r$ from each of the $K$ stored messages in the databases.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Yi-Peng Wei , Karim Banawan , Sennur Ulukus

We consider the problem of cache-aided Multiuser Private Information Retrieval (MuPIR) which is an extension of the single-user cache-aided PIR problem to the case of multiple users. In MuPIR, each of the $K_{\rm u}$ cache-equipped users…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Xiang Zhang , Kai Wan , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire

We introduce the problem of random symmetric private information retrieval (RSPIR). In canonical PIR, a user downloads a message out of $K$ messages from $N$ non-colluding and replicated databases in such a way that no database can know…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Zhusheng Wang , Sennur Ulukus

Suppose a database containing $M$ records is replicated across $N$ servers, and a user wants to privately retrieve one record by accessing the servers such that identity of the retrieved record is secret against any up to $T$ servers. A…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Jingke Xu , Zhifang Zhang

We consider the problem of private information retrieval (PIR) with colluding servers and eavesdroppers (abbreviated as ETPIR). The ETPIR problem is comprised of $K$ messages, $N$ servers where each server stores all $K$ messages, a user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Qiwen Wang , Hua Sun , Mikael Skoglund

In this paper we study the problem of private information retrieval where a user seeks to retrieve one of the $F$ files from a cluster of $N$ non-colluding servers without revealing the identity of the requested file. In our setting the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Mohit Shrivastava , Pradeep Sarvepalli

We study the problem of weakly private information retrieval (PIR) when there is heterogeneity in servers' trustworthiness under the maximal leakage (Max-L) metric and mutual information (MI) metric. A user wishes to retrieve a desired…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Wenyuan Zhao , Yu-Shin Huang , Ruida Zhou , Chao Tian

In the conventional robust $T$-colluding private information retrieval (PIR) system, the user needs to retrieve one of the possible messages while keeping the identity of the requested message private from any $T$ colluding servers.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Ruida Zhou , Chao Tian , Hua Sun , James Plank

A private information retrieval (PIR) scheme is a protocol that allows a user to retrieve a file from a database without revealing the identity of the desired file to a curious database. Given a distributed data storage system, efficient…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Camilla Hollanti , Neehar Verma

The capacity has recently been characterized for the private information retrieval (PIR) problem as well as several of its variants. In every case it is assumed that all the queries are generated by the user simultaneously. Here we consider…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Hua Sun , Syed A. Jafar

Private information retrieval from a single server is considered, utilizing random linear codes. Presented is a modified version of the first code-based single-server computational PIR scheme proposed by Holzbaur, Hollanti, and Wachter-Zeh…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Neehar Verma , Camilla Hollanti

We consider the private information retrieval (PIR) problem from decentralized uncoded caching databases. There are two phases in our problem setting, a caching phase, and a retrieval phase. In the caching phase, a data center containing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Yi-Peng Wei , Batuhan Arasli , Karim Banawan , Sennur Ulukus

A 2-server Private Information Retrieval (PIR) scheme allows a user to retrieve the $i$th bit of an $n$-bit database replicated among two servers (which do not communicate) while not revealing any information about $i$ to either server. In…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-07-25 Zeev Dvir , Sivakanth Gopi

Private information retrieval (PIR) is a cryptographic primitive that allows a client to securely query one or multiple servers without revealing their specific interests. In spite of their strong security guarantees, current PIR…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Mpoki Mwaisela , Peterson Yuhala , Pascal Felber , Valerio Schiavoni

A private information retrieval (PIR) protocol guarantees that a user can privately retrieve files stored in a database without revealing any information about the identity of the requested file. Existing information-theoretic PIR protocols…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Hsuan-Yin Lin , Siddhartha Kumar , Eirik Rosnes , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Eitan Yaakobi

Private information retrieval (PIR) is a database query protocol that provides user privacy, in that the user can learn a particular entry of the database of his interest but his query would be hidden from the data centre. Symmetric private…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-19 Wen Yu Kon , Charles Ci Wen Lim

In this paper, we present a new perspective of single server private information retrieval (PIR) schemes by using the notion of linear error-correcting codes. Many of the known single server schemes are based on taking linear combinations…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Gianira N. Alfarano , Karan Khathuria , Violetta Weger

Consider the problem of Private Information Retrieval (PIR), where a user wishes to retrieve a single message from $N$ non-communicating and non-colluding databases (servers). All servers store the same set of $M$ messages and they respond…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Ori Shmuel , Asaf Cohen

A functional $k$-PIR code of dimension $s$ consists of $n$ servers storing linear combinations of $s$ linearly independent information symbols. Any linear combination of the $s$ information symbols can be recovered by $k$ disjoint subsets…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Yiwei Zhang , Eitan yaakobi , Tuvi Etzion

Private information retrieval (PIR) is a privacy setting that allows a user to download a required message from a set of messages stored in a system of databases without revealing the index of the required message to the databases. PIR was…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Sajani Vithana , Zhusheng Wang , Sennur Ulukus
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