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We study hotplug coded caching in combinatorial multi-access networks, which generalizes existing hotplug coded caching models by allowing users to access multiple caches, while only a subset of caches is online during the delivery phase.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Dhruv Pratap Singh , Anjana A. Mahesh , B. Sundar Rajan

The coded caching scheme proposed by Maddah-Ali and Niesen (MAN) transmits coded multicast messages to users equipped with caches and it is known to be optimal within a constant factor. This work extends this caching scheme to two-hop relay…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Mozhgan Bayat , Kai Wan , Giuseppe Caire

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 compared to uncoded schemes and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Yinbin Ma , Daniela Tuninetti

Recently Hachem et al. formulated a multiaccess coded caching model which consists of a central server connected to $K$ users via an error-free shared link, and $K$ cache-nodes. Each cache-node is equipped with a local cache and each user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Dequan Liang , Kai Wan , Minquan Cheng , Giuseppe Caire

The multiaccess coded caching (MACC) system, as formulated by Hachem {\it et al.}, consists of a central server with a library of $N$ files, connected to $K$ cache-less users via an error-free shared link, and $K$ cache nodes, each equipped…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Wenbo Huang , Minquan Cheng , Kai Wan , Xiaojun Li , Robert Caiming Qiu , Giuseppe Caire

Caching is a technique to reduce the communication load in peak hours by prefetching contents during off-peak hours. An information-theoretic framework for coded caching was introduced by Maddah-Ali and Niesen in a recent work, where it was…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Shuo Shao , Jesús Gómez-Vilardebó , Kai Zhang , Chao Tian

Caching at the wireless edge nodes is a promising way to boost the spatial and spectral efficiency, for the sake of alleviating networks from content-related traffic. Coded caching originally introduced by Maddah-Ali and Niesen…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Kai Wan , Minquan Cheng , Mari Kobayashi , Giuseppe Caire

In this work, we study coded placement in caching systems where the users have unequal cache sizes and demonstrate its performance advantage. In particular, we propose a caching scheme with coded placement for three-user systems that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-12 Abdelrahman M. Ibrahim , Ahmed A. Zewail , Aylin Yener

The tradeoff between the user's memory size and the worst-case download time in the $(H,r,M,N)$ combination network is studied, where a central server communicates with $K$ users through $H$ immediate relays, and each user has local cache…

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

A centralized coded caching scheme has been proposed by Maddah-Ali and Niesen to reduce the worst-case load of a network consisting of a server with access to N files and connected through a shared link to K users, each equipped with a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Sian Jin , Ying Cui , Hui Liu , Giuseppe Caire

Coded caching schemes with low subpacketization and small transmission rate are desirable in practice due to the requirement of low implementation complexity and efficiency of the transmission. Placement delivery arrays (PDA in short) can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Mingming Zhang , Minquan Cheng , Jinyu Wang , Xi Zhong , Yishan Chen

This paper aims to provide an optimization framework for coded caching that accounts for various heterogeneous aspects of practical systems. An optimization theoretic perspective on the seminal work on the fundamental limits of caching by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Alexander Michael Daniel , Wei Yu

We consider the secure coded caching problem proposed by Ravindrakumar et. al where no user can obtain information about files other than the one requested. We first propose three new schemes for the three cases of cache size $M=1$, $N=2$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Han Fang , Nan Liu , Wei Kang

This work investigates a system where each user aims to retrieve a scalar linear function of the files of a library, which are Maximum Distance Separable coded and stored at multiple distributed servers. The system needs to guarantee robust…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Qifa Yan , Daniela Tuninetti

In wireless networks, coded caching is an effective technique to reduce network congestion during peak traffic times. Recently, a new concept called placement delivery array (PDA) was proposed to characterize the coded caching scheme. So…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Minquan Cheng , Jing Jiang , Qifa Yan , Xiaohu Tang , Haitao Cao

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

This work considers the multi-access caching system proposed by Hachem et al., where each user has access to L neighboring caches in a cyclic wrap-around fashion. We first propose a placement strategy called the consecutive cyclic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Jinyu Wang , Minquan Cheng , Youlong Wu

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

Maddah-Ali and Niesen (MAN) in 2014 surprisingly showed that it is possible to serve an arbitrarily large number of cache-equipped users with a constant number of transmissions by using coded caching in shared-link broadcast networks. This…

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

To address the massive growth of data traffic over cellular networks, increasing spatial reuse of the frequency spectrum by the deployment of small base stations (SBSs) has been considered. For rapid deployment of SBSs in the networks,…