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A decentralized coded caching scheme has been proposed by Maddah-Ali and Niesen, and has been shown to alleviate the load of networks. Recently, placement delivery array (PDA) was proposed to characterize the coded caching scheme. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Zhengming Zhang , Meng Hua , Chunguo Li , Yongming Huang , Luxi Yang

Optimal delivery scheme for coded caching problems with small buffer sizes and the number of users no less than the amount of files in the server was proposed by Chen, Fan and Letaief ["Fundamental limits of caching: improved bounds for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Nujoom Sageer Karat , Anoop Thomas , B. Sundar Rajan

Coded multicasting has been shown to improve the caching performance of content delivery networks with multiple caches downstream of a common multicast link. However, the schemes that have been shown to achieve order-optimal perfor- mance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-25 Mingyue Ji , Karthikeyan Shanmugam , Giuseppe Vettigli , Jaime Llorca , Antonia M. Tulino , Giuseppe Caire

For a network with one sender, $n$ receivers (users) and $m$ possible messages (files), caching side information at the users allows to satisfy arbitrary simultaneous demands by sending a common (multicast) coded message. In the worst-case…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-04 Mingyue Ji , Antonia M. Tulino , Jaime Llorca , Giuseppe Caire

This paper studies the fundamental tradeoff between storage and latency in a general wireless interference network with caches equipped at all transmitters and receivers. The tradeoff is characterized by an information-theoretic metric,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Fan Xu , Meixia Tao , Kangqi Liu

Coded caching techniques have received significant attention lately due to their provable gains in reducing the cost of data delivery in wireless networks. These gains, however, have only been demonstrated under the assumption of a free…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Yousef AlHassoun , Faisal Alotaibi , Aly El Gamal , Hesham El Gamal

Caching is popular technique in content delivery networks that allows for reductions in transmission rates from the content-hosting server to the end users. Coded caching is a generalization of conventional caching that considers the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-28 Li Tang , Aditya Ramamoorthy

We consider coded caching over the fading broadcast channel, where the users, equipped with a memory of finite size, experience asymmetric fading statistics. It is known that a naive application of coded caching over the channel at hand…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Richard Combes , Asma Ghorbel , Mari Kobayashi , Sheng Yang

Coded distributed computing (CDC), proposed by Li \emph{et al.}, offers significant potential for reducing the communication load in MapReduce computing systems. In cascaded CDC with $K$ nodes, $N$ input files, and $Q$ output functions,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Mingming Zhang , Youlong Wu , Minquan Cheng , Dianhua Wu

Coded caching is a technique that leverages locally cached contents at the end users to reduce the network's peak-time communication load. Coded caching has been shown to achieve significant performance gains with a centralized placement…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Yinbin Ma , Daniela Tuninetti

We consider a coded caching problem with multiple demands under a privacy constraint. In this problem, a server with access to \(N\) files serves \(K\) users over a shared link, and each user requests \(L\) distinct files. The privacy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Qinyi Lu , Nan Liu , Wei Kang

Recently it was shown that the seminal Maddah-Ali and Niesen (MAN) coded caching scheme leaks the demand information of each user to the others. Many works have considered coded caching with demand privacy, while each non-trivial existing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Ali Gholami , Kai Wan , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire

Coded caching schemes on broadcast networks with user caches help to offload traffic from peak times to off-peak times by prefetching information from the server to the users during off-peak times and thus serving the users more efficiently…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Hari Hara Suthan C , Ishani Chugh , Prasad Krishnan

In this paper, we study the coded caching scheme for the $(K,L,M_{\text{T}},M_{\text{U}},N)$ partially connected linear network, where there are $N$ files each of which has an equal size, $K+L-1$ transmitters and $K$ users; each user and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Minquan Cheng , Yun Xie , Zhenhao Huang , Mingming Zhang , Youlong Wu

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

We consider a network consisting of a file server connected through a shared link to a number of users, each equipped with a cache. Knowing the popularity distribution of the files, the goal is to optimally populate the caches such as to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-23 Urs Niesen , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali

We consider a basic content distribution scenario consisting of a single origin server connected through a shared bottleneck link to a number of users each equipped with a cache of finite memory. The users issue a sequence of content…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-20 Ramtin Pedarsani , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , Urs Niesen

Network cache allocation and management are important aspects of the design of an Information-Centric Network (ICN), such as one based on Named Data Networking (NDN). We address the problem of optimal cache size allocation and content…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-13 Van Sy Mai , Stratis Ioannidis , Davide Pesavento , Lotfi Benmohamed

This paper takes a rate-distortion approach to understanding the information-theoretic laws governing cache-aided communications systems. Specifically, we characterise the optimal tradeoffs between the delivery rate, cache capacity and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Roy Timo , Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti , Michèle Wigger , Bernhard C. Geiger

In this work, the peak rate of the caching problem is investigated, under the scenario that the users are with small buffer sizes and the number of users is no less than the amount of files in the server. A novel coded caching strategy is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-09 Zhi Chen , Pingyi Fan , K. B. Letaief