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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

We consider the problem of data storage in a geographically distributed (or geo-distributed) network of servers (or nodes) where inter-node communication incurs certain round-trip delays. Every node serves a set of users who can request any…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-11 Srivathsa Acharya , P. Vijay Kumar , Viveck R. Cadambe

Coded caching is a recently proposed technique that achieves significant performance gains for cache networks compared to uncoded caching schemes. However, this substantial coding gain is attained at the cost of large delivery delay, which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Urs Niesen , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali

Caching of popular content during off-peak hours is a strategy to reduce network loads during peak hours. Recent work has shown significant benefits of designing such caching strategies not only to deliver part of the content locally, but…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Nikhil Karamchandani , Urs Niesen , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , Suhas Diggavi

The exponential growth of data necessitates distributed storage models, such as peer-to-peer systems and data federations. While distributed storage can reduce costs and increase reliability, the heterogeneity in storage capacity, I/O…

We propose a new decentralized coded caching scheme for a two-phase caching network, where the data placed in user caches in the prefetching phase are random portions of a maximal distance separable (MDS) coded version of the original…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Yi-Peng Wei , Sennur Ulukus

Cloud storage systems generally add redundancy in storing content files such that $K$ files are replicated or erasure coded and stored on $N > K$ nodes. In addition to providing reliability against failures, the redundant copies can be used…

Despite significant progress in the caching literature concerning the worst case and uniform average case regimes, the algorithms for caching with nonuniform demands are still at a basic stage and mostly rely on simple grouping and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Pierre Quinton , Saeid Sahraei , Michael Gastpar

Mobile edge caching enables content delivery within the radio access network, which effectively alleviates the backhaul burden and reduces response time. To fully exploit edge storage resources, the most popular contents should be…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Peng Yang , Ning Zhang , Shan Zhang , Li Yu , Junshan Zhang , Xuemin Shen

To address the exponentially rising demand for wireless content, use of caching is emerging as a potential solution. It has been recently established that joint design of content delivery and storage (coded caching) can significantly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-01 Jad Hachem , Nikhil Karamchandani , Suhas Diggavi

We investigate the use of maximum distance separable (MDS) codes to cache popular content to reduce the download delay of wireless content delivery. In particular, we consider a cellular system where devices roam in an out of a cell…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-09 Amina Piemontese , Alexandre Graell i Amat

Design of distributed caching mechanisms is considered as an active area of research due to its promising solution in reducing data load in the backhaul link of a cellular network. In this paper, the problem of distributed content caching…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-14 S. Krishnendu , B. N. Bharath , Navneet Garg , Vimal Bhatia , Tharmalingam Ratnarajah

Maximum distance separable (MDS) array codes are widely employed in modern distributed storage systems to provide high data reliability with small storage overhead. Compared with the data access latency of the entire file, the data access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Hao Shi , Zhengyi Jiang , Zhongyi Huang , Linqi Song , Hanxu Hou

In-network caching is one of the fundamental operations of Information-centric networks (ICN). The default caching strategy taken by most of the current ICN proposals is caching along--default--path, which makes popular objects to be cached…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-02-10 Sumanta Saha , Andrey Lukyanenko , Antti Ylä-Jääski

Edge Storage Systems have emerged as a critical enabler of low latency data access in modern cloud networks by bringing storage and computation closer to end users. However, the limited storage capacity of edge servers poses significant…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Shubhradeep Roy , Suvarthi Sarkar , Vivek Verma , Aryabartta Sahu

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

Erasure codes are being increasingly used in distributed-storage systems in place of data-replication, since they provide the same level of reliability with much lower storage overhead. We consider the problem of constructing explicit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-08 Preetum Nakkiran , K. V. Rashmi , Kannan Ramchandran

The importance of content delivery networks (CDN) continues to rise with the exponential increase in the generation and consumption of electronic media. In order to ensure a high quality of experience, CDNs often deploy cache servers that…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Srujan Teja Thomdapu , Palash Katiyar , Ketan Rajawat

Reliability in distributed storage systems has typically focused on the design and deployment of data replication or erasure coding techniques. Although some scenarios have considered the use of replication for hot data and erasure coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Daniel E. Lucani , Marcell Fehér

Erasure codes are an efficient means of storing data across a network in comparison to data replication, as they tend to reduce the amount of data stored in the network and offer increased resilience in the presence of node failures. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 K. V. Rashmi , Nihar B. Shah , P. Vijay Kumar