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The index coding problem aims to optimise broadcast communication by taking advantage of receiver-side information to improve transmission efficiency. In this letter, we explore the application of Construction $\pi_A$ lattices to index…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Juliana G. F. Souza , Sueli I. R. Costa

We consider the problem of linear transceiver design to achieve max-min fairness in a downlink MIMO multicell network. This problem can be formulated as maximizing the minimum rate among all the users in an interfering broadcast channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-03 Meisam Razaviyayn , Mingyi Hong , Zhi-Quan Luo

This paper studies index coding with two senders. In this setup, source messages are distributed among the senders possibly with common messages. In addition, there are multiple receivers, with each receiver having some messages a priori,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Chandra Thapa , Lawrence Ong , Sarah J. Johnson , Min Li

We study zero-error unicast index-coding instances, where each receiver must perfectly decode its requested message set, and the message sets requested by any two receivers do not overlap. We show that for all these instances with up to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-09-04 Lawrence Ong

The distributed index coding problem is studied, whereby multiple messages are stored at different servers to be broadcast to receivers with side information. First, the existing composite coding scheme is enhanced for the centralized…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Yucheng Liu , Parastoo Sadeghi , Fatemeh Arbabjolfaei , Young-Han Kim

In Index Coding, the goal is to use a broadcast channel as efficiently as possible to communicate information from a source to multiple receivers which can possess some of the information symbols at the source as side-information. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-20 Ashok Choudhary , Vamsi Krishna Gummadi , Prasad Krishnan

We consider the problem of minimizing the number of broadcasts for collecting all sensor measurements at a sink node in a noisy broadcast sensor network. Focusing first on arbitrary network topologies, we provide (i) fundamental limits on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-01 Yaoqing Yang , Soummya Kar , Pulkit Grover

We consider a broadcast channel with a degraded message set, in which a single transmitter sends a common message to two receivers and a private message to one of the receivers only. The main goal of this work is to find new lower bounds to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-06-09 Yonatan Kaspi , Neri Merhav

Content delivery networks often employ caching to reduce transmission rates from the central server to the end users. Recently, the technique of coded caching was introduced whereby coding in the caches and coded transmission signals from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-16 Hooshang Ghasemi , Aditya Ramamoorthy

The advent of network coding presents promising opportunities in many areas of communication and networking. It has been recently shown that network coding technique can significantly increase the overall throughput of wireless networks by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Salim Y. El Rouayheb , Mohammad Asad R. Chaudhry , Alex Sprintson

The Pliable Index CODing (PICOD) problem is a variant of the Index Coding (IC) problem, where the desired messages by the users, who are equipped with message side information, is part of the optimization. This paper studies the PICOD…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Tang Liu , Daniela Tuninetti

This paper considers the problem of covert communication with mismatched decoding, in which a sender wishes to reliably communicate with a receiver whose decoder is fixed and possibly sub-optimal, and simultaneously to ensure that the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Qiaosheng Zhang , Vincent Y. F. Tan

Given a graph and a subset of its nodes, referred to as source nodes, the minimum broadcast problem asks for the minimum number of steps in which a signal can be transmitted from the sources to all other nodes in the graph. In each step,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-10 Marika Ivanova , Dag Haugland , Bård Hennning Tvedt

For discrete memoryless multiple-access channels, we propose a general definition of variable length codes with a measure of the transmission rates at the receiver side. This gives a receiver perspective on the multiple-access channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-28 Stephane Musy

This work considers the problem of transmitting multiple compressible sources over a network at minimum cost. The aim is to find the optimal rates at which the sources should be compressed and the network flows using which they should be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-08-13 Aditya Ramamoorthy

In this work, we formulate and study a data dissemination problem, which can be viewed as a generalization of the index coding problem and of the data exchange problem to networks with an arbitrary topology. We define $r$-solvable networks,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-12 Ivo Kubjas , Vitaly Skachek

The index coding problem involves a sender with K messages to be transmitted across a broadcast channel, and a set of receivers each of which demands a subset of the K messages while having prior knowledge of a different subset as side…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Lakshmi Natarajan , Yi Hong , Emanuele Viterbo

This work discusses the source broadcasting problem, i.e. transmitting a source to many receivers via a broadcast channel. The optimal rate-distortion region for this problem is unknown. The separation approach divides the problem into two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-21 Uri Mendlovic , Meir Feder

A generalization of the problem of writing on dirty paper is considered in which one transmitter sends a common message to multiple receivers. Each receiver experiences on its link an additive interference (in addition to the additive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Ashish Khisti , Uri Erez , Amos Lapidoth , Gregory Wornell

The two-sender unicast index coding problem is the most fundamental multi-sender index coding problem. The two senders collectively cater to the demands of all the receivers, by taking advantage of the knowledge of their side-information.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Chinmayananda Arunachala , B. Sundar Rajan