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This paper studies the fundamental limits of caching in a network with two receivers and two files generated by a two-component discrete memoryless source with arbitrary joint distribution. Each receiver is equipped with a cache of equal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-15 Parisa Hassanzadeh , Antonia Tulino , Jaime Llorca , Elza Erkip

Network based on distributed caching of content is a new architecture to alleviate the ongoing explosive demands for rate of multi-media traffic. In caching networks, coded caching is a recently proposed technique that achieves significant…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-16 Qifa Yan , Xiaohu Tang , Qingchun Chen

Caching is an approach to smoothen the variability of traffic over time. Recently it has been proved that the local memories at the users can be exploited for reducing the peak traffic in a much more efficient way than previously believed.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-22 Saeid Sahraei , Michael Gastpar

This paper considers the multiaccess coded caching systems formulated by Hachem et al., including a central server containing $N$ files connected to $K$ cache-less users through an error-free shared link, and $K$ cache-nodes, each equipped…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Minquan Cheng , Kai Wan , Dequan Liang , Mingming Zhang , Giuseppe Caire

This paper presents a novel achievable scheme for coded caching systems with $N$ files and $K$ users, specifically when $N \leq K$. This new scheme employs linear coding both during the placement phase - where cache contents are linear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Yinbin Ma , Daniela Tuninetti

Classical coded caching setting avails each user to have one dedicated cache. This is generalized to a more general shared cache scheme and the exact expression for the worst case rate was derived in [E. Parrinello, A. Unsal, P. Elia,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-11 Nujoom Sageer Karat , Spandan Dey , Anoop Thomas , B. Sundar Rajan

Recent work by Maddah-Ali and Niesen introduced coded caching which demonstrated the benefits of joint design of storage and transmission policies in content delivery networks. They studied a setup where a server communicates with a set of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-12 Vaishakh Ravindrakumar , Parthasarathi Panda , Nikhil Karamchandani , Vinod Prabhakaran

This paper investigates the fundamental tradeoff between cache size and download time in the (H;r;M;N) combination network, where a server with N files is connected to H relays (without caches) and each of the K:=\binom{H}{r} users (with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Kai Wan , Mingyue Ji , Pablo Piantanida , Daniela Tuninetti

In cache-aided networks, the server populates the cache memories at the users during low-traffic periods, in order to reduce the delivery load during peak-traffic hours. In turn, there exists a fundamental trade-off between the delivery…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Abdelrahman M. Ibrahim , Ahmed A. Zewail , Aylin Yener

Caching is an efficient way to reduce network traffic congestion during peak hours by storing some content at the user's local cache memory without knowledge of later demands. For the shared-link caching model, Maddah-Ali and Niesen (MAN)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Kai Wan , Giuseppe Caire

We consider a two-layer hierarchical coded caching network where a server with a library of $N$ files is connected to $K_1$ mirrors, each having a cache memory of size $M_1$. Each mirror is further connected to $K_2$ users, each equipped…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Rajlaxmi Pandey , Charul Rajput , B. Sundar Rajan

Degraded K-user broadcast channels (BC) are studied when receivers are facilitated with cache memories. Lower and upper bounds are derived on the capacity-memory tradeoff, i.e., on the largest rate of reliable communication over the BC as a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti , Michele Wigger , Aylin Yener

Replicating or caching popular content in memories distributed across the network is a technique to reduce peak network loads. Conventionally, the main performance gain of this caching was thought to result from making part of the requested…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-08 Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , Urs Niesen

Caching is an efficient way to reduce peak hour network traffic congestion by storing some contents at the user's cache without knowledge of later demands. Coded caching strategy was originally proposed by Maddah-Ali and Niesen to give an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Kai Wan , Daniela Tuninetti , Pablo Piantanida , Mingyue Ji

In this work, we consider a slight variant of well known coded caching problem, referred as multi-access coded caching problem, where each user has access to $z$ neighboring caches in a cyclic wrap-around way. We present a placement and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Shanuja Sasi , B. Sundar Rajan

We investigate the multi-access coded caching problem, which involves $N$ files, $K$ users, and $K$ caches in this paper. Each user can access $L$ adjacent caches in a cyclic manner. We present a coded placement scheme for the case of cache…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Zeru Chen , Nan Liu , Wei Kang

Coded caching scheme recently has become quite popular in the wireless network due to its effectively reducing the transmission amount (denote such an amount by $R$) during peak traffic times. However to realize a coded caching scheme, each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Minquan Cheng , Jing Jiang , Qifa Yan , Xiaohu Tang

Coded caching is a promising technique to create coded multicast opportunities for cache-aided networks. By splitting each file into $F$ equal packets (i.e., the subpacketization level $F$) and letting each user cache a set of packets, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Minquan Cheng , Yifei Huang , Youlong Wu , Jinyan Wang

Coded caching has the potential to greatly reduce network traffic by leveraging the cheap and abundant storage available in end-user devices so as to create multicast opportunities in the delivery phase. In the seminal work by Maddah-Ali…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Kai Wan , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Daniela Tuninetti , Giuseppe Caire

This paper addresses the problem of exponentially increasing sub-packetization with the number of users in a centralized coded caching system by introducing a new coded caching scheme inspired by the symmetric neighboring consecutive side…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Anjana A. Mahesh , B. Sundar Rajan