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There are several methods for constructing secret sharing schemes, one of which is based on coding theory. Theoretically, every linear code can be used to construct secret sharing schemes. However, in general, determining the access…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-09-06 Yun Song , Zhihui Li

Consider the problem of private information retrieval (PIR) over a distributed storage system where $M$ records are stored across $N$ servers by using an $[N,K]$ MDS code. For simplicity, this problem is usually referred as the coded PIR…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-18 Jingke Xu , Zhifang Zhang

Gr\"obner bases can be used for computing the Hilbert basis of a numerical submonoid. By using these techniques, we provide an algorithm that calculates a basis of a subspace of a finite-dimensional vector space over a finite prime field…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-03-27 Natalia Dück , Karl-Heinz Zimmermann

It has long been a goal to efficiently compute and use second order information on a function ($f$) to assist in numerical approximations. Here it is shown how, using only basic physics and a numerical approximation, such information can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Michael F. Zimmer

Many state-of-the-art Segment Routing (SR) Traffic Engineering (TE) algorithms rely on Linear Program (LP)-based optimization. However, the poor scalability of the latter and the resulting high computation times impose severe restrictions…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Alexander Brundiers , Timmy Schüller , Nils Aschenbruck

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) allows a client to privately access a database without revealing which element is accessed. Initial PIR protocols based on Ring Learning with Errors (RLWE) demonstrated the practicality of PIR, but…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Rasoul Akhavan Mahdavi , Abdulrahman Diaa , Florian Kerschbaum

Explicit bases for the subfield subcodes of projective Reed-Muller codes over the projective plane and their duals are obtained. In particular, we provide a formula for the dimension of these codes. For the general case over the projective…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Philippe Gimenez , Diego Ruano , Rodrigo San-José

A low-complexity design is proposed for an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system aided by an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS). The radar precoder and IRS parameter are computed alternatingly to maximize the weighted sum…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-23 Yi-Kai Li , Athina Petropulu

Solving quadratic equations over finite fields is a fundamental task in algebraic coding theory and serves as a key subroutine for computing the roots of cubic and quartic polynomials. Notably, any quadratic polynomial over binary extension…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Leilei Yu , Yunghsiang S. Han , Pingping Li , Jiasheng Yuan

Since the concept of locally decodable codes was introduced by Katz and Trevisan in 2000, it is well-known that information the-oretically secure private information retrieval schemes can be built using locally decodable codes. In this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-12-17 Daniel Augot , Françoise Levy-Dit-Vehel , Abdullatif Shikfa

In this letter we describe the pseudoparticle multipole method (P2M2), a new method to express multipole expansion by a distribution of pseudoparticles. We can use this distribution of particles to calculate high order terms in both the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Atsushi Kawai , Junichiro Makino

A capacity-achieving scheme based on polar codes is proposed for reliable communication over multi-channels which can be directly applied to bit-interleaved coded modulation schemes. We start by reviewing the ground-breaking work of polar…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-04 Hessam Mahdavifar , Mostafa El-Khamy , Jungwon Lee , Inyup Kang

We rethink the definition of privacy in multi-server, graph-replicated private information retrieval (PIR) systems, and introduce a novel setting where the user's privacy is governed by the servers' storage structure. In particular, while…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Shreya Meel , Mohamed Nomeir , Sennur Ulukus

A representation of finite fields that has proved useful when implementing finite field arithmetic in hardware is based on an isomorphism between subrings and fields. In this paper, we present an unified formulation for multiplication in…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2008-07-24 Francisco Arguello

This paper presents new solutions for Private Information Retrieval (PIR) with side information. This problem is motivated by PIR settings in which a client has side information about the data held by the servers and would like to leverage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Ningze Wang , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Alex Sprintson

This paper proposes a binarization scheme for vectors of high dimension based on the recent concept of anti-sparse coding, and shows its excellent performance for approximate nearest neighbor search. Unlike other binarization schemes, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-10-27 Hervé Jégou , Teddy Furon , Jean-Jacques Fuchs

A private information retrieval (PIR) scheme is a protocol that allows a user to retrieve a file from a database without revealing the identity of the desired file to a curious database. Given a distributed data storage system, efficient…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Camilla Hollanti , Neehar Verma

Linear batch codes and codes for private information retrieval (PIR) with a query size $t$ and a restricted size $r$ of the reconstruction sets are studied. New bounds on the parameters of such codes are derived for small values of $t$ or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-05 Eldho K. Thomas , Vitaly Skachek

In this work, we present a concatenated repetition-polar coding scheme that is aimed at applications requiring highly unbalanced unequal bit-error protection, such as the Beam Interlock System of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Even…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-04 Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Tomasz Podzorny , Jan Uythoven

Recently, the use of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has gained considerable attention in wireless communications. By intelligently adjusting the passive reflection angle, IRS is able to assist the base station (BS) to extend the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Mingjie Shao , Qiang Li , Wing-Kin Ma