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We characterise bounds on the optimal broadcast rate for a few classes of pliable-index-coding instances. Unlike the majority of currently solved instances, which belong to a special class where all receivers with a certain side-information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Lawrence Ong , Badri N. Vellambi , Parastoo Sadeghi , Jörg Kliewer

An index coding problem is called unicast-uniprior when each receiver demands a unique subset of messages while knowing another unique subset of messages apriori as side-information. In this work, we give an algorithm to compute the minrank…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Niranjana Ambadi

We consider the problem of coding over the multi-user Interference Channel (IC). It is well-known that aligning the interfering signals results in improved achievable rates in certain setups involving more than two users. We argue that in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-18 F. Shirani , S. S. Pradhan

Index Coding has received considerable attention recently motivated in part by real-world applications and in part by its connection to Network Coding. The basic setting of Index Coding encodes the problem input as an undirected graph and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-07-14 Anna Blasiak , Robert Kleinberg , Eyal Lubetzky

The index coding problem is a fundamental transmission problem which occurs in a wide range of multicast networks. Network coding over a large finite field size has been shown to be a theoretically efficient solution to the index coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-01 Jalaluddin Qureshi , Chuan Heng Foh , Jianfei Cai

The network coding problem asks whether data throughput in a network can be increased using coding (compared to treating bits as commodities in a flow). While it is well-known that a network coding advantage exists in directed graphs, the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Mark Braverman , Zhongtian He

In this work, we study the problem of index coding from graph homomorphism perspective. We show that the minimum broadcast rate of an index coding problem for different variations of the problem such as non-linear, scalar, and vector index…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-09-01 Javad B. Ebrahimi , Mahdi Jafari Siavoshani

This paper proposes an encoding/decoding framework for achieving the optimal channel capacities of the two-user broadcast channel where each user (receiver) has the message targeted for the other user (receiver) as side information. Since…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-02 Taotao Wang , Soung Chang Liew , Long Shi

Index coding models broadcast networks in which a sender sends different messages to different receivers simultaneously, where each receiver may know some of the messages a priori. The aim is to find the minimum (normalised) index…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Lawrence Ong

This letter investigates the role of index coding in the capacity of AWGN broadcast channels with receiver message side information. We first show that index coding is unnecessary where there are two receivers; multiplexing coding and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Behzad Asadi , Lawrence Ong , Sarah J. Johnson

Partial clique covering is one of the most basic coding schemes for index coding problems, generalizing clique and cycle covering on the side information digraph and further reducing the achievable broadcast rate. In this paper, we start…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Xinping Yi , Giuseppe Caire

A single unicast index coding problem (SUICP) with symmetric neighboring interference (SNI) has $K$ messages and $K$ receivers, the $k$th receiver $R_{k}$ wanting the $k$th message $x_{k}$ and having the interference with $D$ messages after…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Mahesh Babu Vaddi , B. Sundar Rajan

This paper proposes a novel achievable scheme for the index problem and applies it to the caching problem. Index coding and caching are noiseless broadcast channel problems where receivers have message side information.In the index coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-24 Kai Wan , Daniela Tuninetti , Pablo Piantanida

We study the index coding problem in the unicast message setting, i.e., where each message is requested by one unique receiver. This problem can be modeled by a directed graph. We propose a new scheme called interlinked cycle cover, which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Chandra Thapa , Lawrence Ong , Sarah J. Johnson

We establish a duality result between linear index coding and Locally Repairable Codes (LRCs). Specifically, we show that a natural extension of LRCs we call Generalized Locally Repairable Codes (GLCRs) are exactly dual to linear index…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-18 Karthikeyan Shanmugam , Alexandros G. Dimakis

An interference alignment perspective is used to identify the simplest instances (minimum possible number of edges in the alignment graph, no more than 2 interfering messages at any destination) of index coding problems where non-Shannon…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-29 Hua Sun , Syed A. Jafar

The Pliable Index CODing (PICOD) problem is a variant of the Index Coding (IC) problem, where the desired messages by the users, who are equipped with message side information, is part of the optimization. This paper studies the PICOD…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Tang Liu , Daniela Tuninetti

In this paper, we propose a new scalar linear coding scheme for the index coding problem called update-based maximum column distance (UMCD) coding scheme. The central idea in each transmission is to code messages such that one of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Arman Sharififar , Neda Aboutorab , Parastoo Sadeghi

We consider the problem of linear network coding over communication networks, representable by directed acyclic graphs, with multiple groupcast sessions: the network comprises of multiple destination nodes, each desiring messages from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-05 Abhik Kumar Das , Siddhartha Banerjee , Sriram Vishwanath

An index code for broadcast channel with receiver side information is locally decodable if each receiver can decode its demand by observing only a subset of the transmitted codeword symbols instead of the entire codeword. Local decodability…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Lakshmi Natarajan , Prasad Krishnan , V. Lalitha , Hoang Dau