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Distributed computing frameworks such as MapReduce have become essential for large-scale data processing by decomposing tasks across multiple nodes. The multi-access distributed computing (MADC) model further advances this paradigm by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Shanuja Sasi

A major practical limitation of the Maddah-Ali-Niesen coded caching techniques is their high subpacketization level. For the simple network with a single server and multiple users, Yan \emph{et al.} proposed an alternative scheme with the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Qifa Yan , Michèle Wigger , Sheng Yang

In an $(H,r)$ combination network, a single content library is delivered to ${H\choose r}$ users through deployed $H$ relays without cache memories, such that each user with local cache memories is simultaneously served by a different…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Minquan Cheng , Yiqun Li , Xi Zhong , Ruizhong Wei

Coded caching is an effective technique to reduce the redundant traffic in wireless networks. The existing coded caching schemes require the splitting of files into a possibly large number of subfiles, i.e., they perform coded subfile…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Seyed Ali Saberali , Lutz Lampe , Ian Blake

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 consider the problem of coded distributed computing where a large linear computational job, such as a matrix multiplication, is divided into $k$ smaller tasks, encoded using an $(n,k)$ linear code, and performed over $n$ distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Mohammad Vahid Jamali , Mahdi Soleymani , Hessam Mahdavifar

Loop scheduling techniques aim to achieve load-balanced executions of scientific applications. Dynamic loop self-scheduling (DLS) libraries for distributed-memory systems are typically MPI-based and employ a centralized chunk calculation…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Ahmed Eleliemy , Florina M. Ciorba

This paper studies the computation-communication tradeoff in a heterogeneous MapReduce computing system where each distributed node is equipped with different computation capability. We first obtain an achievable communication load for any…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Fan Xu , Meixia Tao

Deploying Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) on resource-constrained devices necessitates efficient management of computational resources, often via distributed environments susceptible to latency from straggler nodes. This paper…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Shuo Tan , Rui Liu , Xuesong Han , XianLei Long , Kai Wan , Linqi Song , Yong Li

We propose a unified coded framework for distributed computing with straggling servers, by introducing a tradeoff between "latency of computation" and "load of communication" for some linear computation tasks. We show that the coded scheme…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Songze Li , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , A. Salman Avestimehr

We study the optimal design of a heterogeneous coded elastic computing (CEC) network where machines have varying relative computation speeds. CEC introduced by Yang {\it et al.} is a framework which mitigates the impact of elastic events,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Nicholas Woolsey , Rong-Rong Chen , Mingyue Ji

Coding for distributed computing supports low-latency computation by relieving the burden of straggling workers. While most existing works assume a simple master-worker model, we consider a hierarchical computational structure consisting of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Hyegyeong Park , Kangwook Lee , Jy-yong Sohn , Changho Suh , Jaekyun Moon

To improve the utility of learning applications and render machine learning solutions feasible for complex applications, a substantial amount of heavy computations is needed. Thus, it is essential to delegate the computations among several…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Homa Esfahanizadeh , Alejandro Cohen , Muriel Medard

This paper considers the MapReduce-like coded distributed computing framework originally proposed by Li et al., which uses coding techniques when distributed computing servers exchange their computed intermediate values, in order to reduce…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Kai Wan , Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire

Large scale clusters leveraging distributed computing frameworks such as MapReduce routinely process data that are on the orders of petabytes or more. The sheer size of the data precludes the processing of the data on a single computer. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-12 Konstantinos Konstantinidis , Aditya Ramamoorthy

We propose a flexible low complexity design (FLCD) of coded distributed computing (CDC) with empirical evaluation on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). CDC can expedite MapReduce like computation by trading increased map…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Nicholas Woolsey , Xingyue Wang , Rong-Rong Chen , Mingyue Ji

Collaborative mobile edge computing (MEC) has emerged as a promising paradigm to enable low-capability edge nodes to cooperatively execute computation-intensive tasks. However, straggling edge nodes (stragglers) significantly degrade the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Houming Qiu , Kun Zhu , Dusit Niyato , Nguyen Cong Luong , Changyan Yi , Chen Dai

Gradient descent (GD) methods are commonly employed in machine learning problems to optimize the parameters of the model in an iterative fashion. For problems with massive datasets, computations are distributed to many parallel computing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Emre Ozfatura , Deniz Gunduz , Sennur Ulukus

Coded caching scheme, which is an effective technique to increase the transmission efficiency during peak traffic times, has recently become quite popular among the coding community. Generally rate can be measured to the transmission in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Minquan Cheng , Qifa Yan , Xiaohu Tang , Jing Jiang

The technique of coded caching proposed by Madddah-Ali and Niesen is a promising approach to alleviate the load of networks during busy times. Recently, placement delivery array (PDA) was presented to characterize both the placement and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Qifa Yan , Xiaohu Tang , Qingchun Chen , Minquan Cheng