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We study the problem of pliable private information retrieval with side information (PPIR-SI) for the single server case. In PPIR, the messages are partitioned into nonoverlapping classes and stored in a number of noncolluding databases.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Sarah A. Obead , Hsuan-Yin Lin , Eirik Rosnes

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

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

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

In many practical settings, the user needs to retrieve information from a server in a periodic manner, over multiple rounds of communication. In this paper, we discuss the setting in which this information needs to be retrieved privately,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Fatemeh Kazemi , Esmaeil Karimi , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Alex Sprintson

In private information delivery (PID) problem, there are $K$ messages stored across $N$ servers, each capable of storing $M$ messages and a user. Servers want to convey one of the $K$ messages to the user without revealing the identity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Kanishak Vaidya , B Sundar Rajan

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

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 consider the problem of Private Information Retrieval with Private Side Information (PIR-PSI), wherein a user wants to retrieve a file from replication based non-colluding databases by using the prior knowledge of a subset of the files…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Murali Krishnan K. H. , J. Harshan

We introduce the problem of private computation, comprised of $N$ distributed and non-colluding servers, $K$ independent datasets, and a user who wants to compute a function of the datasets privately, i.e., without revealing which function…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Hua Sun , Syed A. Jafar

In a typical formulation of the private information retrieval (PIR) problem, a single user wishes to retrieve one out of $ K$ files from $N$ servers without revealing the demanded file index to any server. This paper formulates an extended…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Ali Gholami , Kai Wan , Tayyebeh Jahani-Nezhad , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire

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

This paper investigates the problem of Leaky Private Information Retrieval with Side Information (L-PIR-SI), providing a fundamental characterization of the trade-off among leaky privacy, side information, and download cost. We propose a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yingying Huangfu , Tian Bai

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

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

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

Private information retrieval (PIR) allows a user to download one of $K$ messages from $N$ databases without revealing to any database which of the $K$ messages is being downloaded. In general, the databases can be storage constrained where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Nicholas Woolsey , Rong-Rong Chen , Mingyue Ji

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

Private information retrieval (PIR) allows a user to retrieve a desired message out of $K$ possible messages from $N$ databases without revealing the identity of the desired message. Majority of existing works on PIR assume the presence of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Maryam Abdul-Wahid , Firas Almoualem , Deepak Kumar , Ravi Tandon