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Coded caching is a recently proposed technique for dealing with large scale content distribution over the Internet. As in conventional caching, it leverages the presence of local caches at the end users. However, it considers coding in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-06 Li Tang , Aditya Ramamoorthy

Coded caching schemes are used to reduce computer network traffics in peak time. To determine the efficiency of the schemes, \cite{MN} defined the information rate of the schemes and gave a construction of optimal coded caching schemes.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Ruizhong Wei

Coded caching is a promising technique to smooth out network traffic by storing part of the library content at the users' local caches. The seminal work on coded caching for single file retrieval by Maddah-Ali and Niesen (MAN) showed the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Kai Wan , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Daniela Tuninetti , Giuseppe Caire

As a strategy to further reduce the transmission pressure during the peak traffic times in wireless network, coded caching has been widely studied recently. And several coded caching schemes are constructed focusing on the two core problems…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Minquan Cheng , Jing Jiang , Youzhi Yao

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

The coded caching scheme proposed by Maddah-Ali and Niesen considers the delivery of files in a given content library to users through a deterministic error-free network where a common multicast message is sent to all users at a fixed rate,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Mozhgan Bayat , Ratheesh K. Mungara , Giuseppe Caire

In this paper we determine the delivery time for a multi-server coded caching problem when the cache size of each user is small. We propose an achievable scheme based on coded cache content placement, and employ zero-forcing techniques at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-22 Seyed Pooya Shariatpanahi , Babak Hossein Khalaj

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

Inspired by prior work by Tian and by Cao and Xu, this paper presents an efficient computer-aided framework to characterize the fundamental limits of coded caching systems under the constraint of linear coding. The proposed framework…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Niccolò Brembilla , Yinbin Ma , Pietro Belotti , Federico Malucelli , Daniela Tuninetti

In this paper, we consider a cache-aided relay network, where a single server consisting of a library of N files connects with K1 relays through a shared noiseless link, and each relay connects with K2 users through a shared noiseless link.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Ke Wang , Youlong Wu , Shujie Cao , Jiahui Chen

Recently multi-access coded caching schemes with number of users different from the number of caches obtained from a special case of resolvable designs called Cross Resolvable Designs (CRDs) have been reported and a new performance metric…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Pooja Nayak Muralidhar , Digvijay Katyal , B. Sundar Rajan

A major concern in cloud/edge storage systems is serving a large number of users simultaneously. The service rate region is introduced recently as an important performance metric for coded distributed systems, which is defined as the set of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Fatemeh Kazemi , Sascha Kurz , Emina Soljanin , Alex Sprintson

The work identifies the fundamental limits of coded caching when the K receiving users share {\Lambda}$\leq$ K helper-caches, each assisting an arbitrary number of different users. The main result is the derivation of the exact optimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Emanuele Parrinello , Ayşe Ünsal , Petros Elia

In this paper, we consider a cache aided network in which each user is assumed to have individual caches, while upon users' requests, an update message is sent though a common link to all users. First, we formulate a general information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Sung Hoon Lim , Chien-Yi Wang , Michael Gastpar

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 caching of files in a content distribution network (CDN) is a problem of fundamental and growing commercial interest. Although many different caching algorithms are in use today, the fundamental performance limits of network caching…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Rajarshi Bhattacharjee , Subhankar Banerjee , Abhishek Sinha

We address a centralized caching problem with unequal cache sizes. We consider a system with a server of files connected through a shared error-free link to a group of cache-enabled users where one subgroup has a larger cache size than the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Behzad Asadi , Lawrence Ong , Sarah J. Johnson

Data shuffling between distributed cluster of nodes is one of the critical steps in implementing large-scale learning algorithms. Randomly shuffling the data-set among a cluster of workers allows different nodes to obtain fresh data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Mohamed A. Attia , Ravi Tandon

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

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