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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

A decentralized coded caching scheme based on independent random content placement has been proposed by Maddah-Ali and Niesen, and has been shown to achieve an order-optimal memory-load tradeoff when the file size goes to infinity. It was…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-12 Sian Jin , Ying Cui , Hui Liu , Giuseppe Caire

Coded caching is a technique that leverages locally cached contents at the end users to reduce the network's peak-time communication load. Coded caching has been shown to achieve significant performance gains with a centralized placement…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Yinbin Ma , Daniela Tuninetti

Decentralized coded caching scheme, introduced by Maddah-Ali and Niesen, assumes that the caches are filled with no coordination. This work identifies a decentralized coded caching scheme -- under the assumption of uncoded placement -- for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Elizabath Peter , B. Sundar Rajan

Caching is a promising solution to satisfy the ongoing explosive demands for multi-media traffics. Recently, Maddah-Ali and Niesen proposed both centralized and de-centralized coded caching schemes, which are able to attain significant…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Qifa Yan , Xiaohu Tang , Qingchun Chen

We study a $K$-user coded-caching broadcast problem in a joint source-channel coding framework. The transmitter observes a database of files that are being generated at a certain rate per channel use, and each user has a cache, which can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Hadi Reisizadeh , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , Soheil Mohajer

Cache-aided content delivery is studied in a multi-server system with $P$ servers and $K$ users, each equipped with a local cache memory. In the delivery phase, each user connects randomly to any $\rho$ out of $P$ servers. Thanks to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-16 Nitish Mital , Deniz Gunduz , Cong Ling

This paper studies the multi-access coded caching (MACC) problem with arbitrary user-cache access topology, which extends existing MACC models that rely on highly structured and combinatorially designed topologies. We consider a MACC system…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Ting Yang , Kai Wan , Minquan Cheng , Xinping Yi , Robert Caiming Qiu , Giuseppe Caire

Coded caching technique is an efficient approach to reduce the transmission load in networks and has been studied in heterogeneous network settings in recent years. In this paper, we consider a new widespread caching system called…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Minquan Cheng , Jinwei Xu , Mingming Zhang , Youlong Wu

This paper takes a rate-distortion approach to understanding the information-theoretic laws governing cache-aided communications systems. Specifically, we characterise the optimal tradeoffs between the delivery rate, cache capacity and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Roy Timo , Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti , Michèle Wigger , Bernhard C. Geiger

In this paper, we consider the algorithmic task of content replication and request routing in a distributed caching system consisting of a central server and a large number of caches, each with limited storage and service capabilities. We…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-03-31 Sharayu Moharir , Nikhil Karamchandani

A cache-aided compression problem with perfect privacy is studied, where a server has access to a database of $N$ files, $(Y_1,...,Y_N)$, each of size $F$ bits. The server is connected to $K$ users through a shared link, where each user has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Amirreza Zamani , Mikael Skoglund

This paper considers a two-hop network architecture known as a combination network, where a layer of relay nodes connects a server to a set of end users. In particular, a new model is investigated where the intermediate relays employ caches…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-14 Ahmed A. Zewail , Aylin Yener

Caching is a promising solution to satisfy the ever increasing demands for the multi-media traffics. In caching networks, coded caching is a recently proposed technique that achieves significant performance gains over the uncoded caching…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-23 Qifa Yan , Minquan Cheng , Xiaohu Tang , Qingchun Chen

In this paper, we consider the coded-caching broadcast network with user cooperation, where a server connects with multiple users and the users can cooperate with each other through a cooperation network. We propose a centralized coded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Jiahui Chen , Haoyu Yin , Xiaowen You , Yanlin Geng , Youlong Wu

The coded caching scheme proposed by Maddah-Ali and Niesen (MAN) transmits coded multicast messages to users equipped with caches and it is known to be optimal within a constant factor. This work extends this caching scheme to two-hop relay…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Mozhgan Bayat , Kai Wan , Giuseppe Caire

In this paper, we propose a scheme for the problem of cache-aided multi-user private information retrieval with small caches, in which $K$ users are connected to $S$ non-colluding databases via shared links. Each database contains a set of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Charul Rajput , B. Sundar Rajan

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 address a centralized caching problem with unequal cache sizes. We consider a system with a server of files connected through a shared error-free link to a group of cache-enabled users where one subgroup has a larger cache size than the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Behzad Asadi , Lawrence Ong , Sarah J. Johnson

This paper studies caching in (K+L-1) x K partially connected wireless linear networks, where each of the K receivers locally communicates with L out of the K+L-1 transmitters, and caches are at all nodes. The goal is to design caching and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Fan Xu , Meixia Tao , Tiankai Zheng