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Communication plays a vital role in multi-agent systems, fostering collaboration and coordination. However, in real-world scenarios where communication is bandwidth-limited, existing multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Qingshuang Sun , Denis Steckelmacher , Yuan Yao , Ann Nowé , Raphaël Avalos

Coded computation is a framework which provides redundancy in distributed computing systems to speed up largescale tasks. Although most existing works assume an error-free scenarios in a master-worker setup, the link failures are common in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Dong-Jun Han , Jy-yong Sohn , Jaekyun Moon

Constrained coding plays a key role in optimizing performance and mitigating errors in applications such as storage and communication, where specific constraints on codewords are required. While non-parametric constraints have been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Daniella Bar-Lev , Michael Shlizerman

We present a closed-form expression for the minimal delay that is achievable in a setting that combines a buffer and an erasure code, used to mitigate the packet delay variance. The erasure code is modeled according to the recent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-17 Jesper H. Sørensen , Petar Popovski , Jan Østergaard

For high-rate linear systematic maximum distance separable (MDS) codes, most early constructions could initially optimally repair all the systematic nodes but not all the parity nodes. Fortunately, this issue was first solved by Li et al.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Jie Li , Xiaohu Tang , Camilla Hollanti

The problem of exact repair of a failed node in multi-hop networked distributed storage systems is considered. Contrary to the most of the current studies which model the repair process by the direct links from surviving nodes to the new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-14 Majid Gerami , Ming Xiao

A distributed quantum storage code maps a quantum message to N storage nodes, of arbitrary specified sizes, such that the stored message is robust to an arbitrary specified set of erasure patterns. The sizes of the storage nodes, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Hua Sun , Syed A. Jafar

In order to scale economically, data centers are increasingly evolving their data storage methods from the use of simple data replication to the use of more powerful erasure codes, which provide the same level of reliability as replication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-12 Nihar B. Shah , Kangwook Lee , Kannan Ramchandran

Ever-increasing amounts of data are created and processed in internet-scale companies such as Google, Facebook, and Amazon. The efficient storage of such copious amounts of data has thus become a fundamental and acute problem in modern…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Natalia Silberstein , Tuvi Etzion , Moshe Schwartz

Analyzing large scale networks requires high performance streaming updates of graph representations of these data. Associative arrays are mathematical objects combining properties of spreadsheets, databases, matrices, and graphs, and are…

Minimum storage regenerating (MSR) codes are a class of maximum distance separable (MDS) array codes capable of repairing any single failed node by downloading the minimum amount of information from each of the helper nodes. However, MSR…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Vinayak Ramkumar , Netanel Raviv , Itzhak Tamo

We consider an energy harvesting transmitter sending status updates to a receiver over an erasure channel, where each status update is of length $k$ symbols. The energy arrivals and the channel erasures are independent and identically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Abdulrahman Baknina , Sennur Ulukus

Explosive growth of mobile data demand may impose a heavy traffic burden on fronthaul links of cloud-based small cell networks (C-SCNs), which deteriorates users' quality of service (QoS) and requires substantial power consumption. This…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-27 Xiongwei Wu , Qiang Li , Xiuhua Li , Victor C. M. Leung , P. C. Ching

In this work, a wireless broadcast network with a base station (BS) sending random time-sensitive information updates to multiple users with interference constraints is considered. The Age of Synchronization (AoS), namely the amount of time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Haoyue Tang , Jintao Wang , Zihan Tang , Jian Song

Distributed storage systems (DSSs) have gained a lot of interest recently, thanks to their robustness and scalability compared to single-device storage. Majority of the related research has exclusively concerned the network layer. At the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Camilla Hollanti , David Karpuk , Amaro Barreal , Hsiao-feng Francis Lu

Multicast/broadcast services (MBS) are able to provide video services for many users simultaneously. Fixed amount of bandwidth allocation for all of the MBS videos is not effective in terms of bandwidth utilization, overall forced call…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Mostafa Zaman Chowdhury , Tuan Nguyena , Young-Il Kimb , Won Ryub , Yeong Min Jang

Consider the following fundamental question of distributed storage networks: Given any arbitrary $(n,k,d)$ values, whether there exists an intelligent helper selection scheme (assuming unlimited memory and computing power) that can strictly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Imad Ahmad , Chih-Chun Wang

Array codes have been widely used in communication and storage systems. To reduce computational complexity, one important property of the array codes is that only XOR operation is used in the encoding and decoding process. In this work, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-01 Hanxu Hou , Yunghsiang S. Han

We consider $(n,k,l)$ MDS codes of length $n$, dimension $k$, and subpacketization $l$ over a finite field $\mathbb{F}$. A codeword of such a code consists of $n$ column-vectors of length $l$ over $\mathbb{F}$, with the property that any…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Ameera Chowdhury , Alexander Vardy

Piggybacking is an efficient method to decrease the repair bandwidth of Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) codes or Minimum Storage Regenerating (MSR) codes. In this paper, for minimizing the repair bandwidth of parity nodes of the known MSR…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-26 Bin Yang , Xiaohu Tang , Jie Li