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Content delivery networks store information distributed across multiple servers, so as to balance the load and avoid unrecoverable losses in case of node or disk failures. Coded caching has been shown to be a useful technique which can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Tianqiong Luo , Vaneet Aggarwal , Borja Peleato

We consider the classical coded caching problem as defined by Maddah-Ali and Niesen, where a server with a library of $N$ files of equal size is connected to $K$ users via a shared error-free link. Each user is equipped with a cache with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Sian Jin , Ying Cui , Hui Liu , Giuseppe Caire

This paper addresses the problem of exponentially increasing sub-packetization with the number of users in a centralized coded caching system by introducing a new coded caching scheme inspired by the symmetric neighboring consecutive side…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Anjana A. Mahesh , B. Sundar Rajan

Cache-aided content delivery is studied in a multi-server system with $P$ servers and $K$ users, each equipped with a local cache memory. In the delivery phase, each user connects randomly to any $\rho$ out of $P$ servers. Thanks to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-16 Nitish Mital , Deniz Gunduz , Cong Ling

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

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

In this paper, we consider the coded-caching broadcast network with user cooperation, where a server connects with multiple users and the users can cooperate with each other through a cooperation network. We propose a centralized coded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Jiahui Chen , Haoyu Yin , Xiaowen You , Yanlin Geng , Youlong Wu

Decentralized coded caching scheme, introduced by Maddah-Ali and Niesen, assumes that the caches are filled with no coordination. This work identifies a decentralized coded caching scheme -- under the assumption of uncoded placement -- for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Elizabath Peter , B. Sundar Rajan

The rapid growth of data volume and the accompanying congestion problems over the wireless networks have been critical issues to content providers. A novel technique, termed as coded cache, is proposed to relieve the burden. Through…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-04-08 Wei Huang , Sinong Wang , Lianghui Ding , Feng Yang , Wenjun Zhang

Content caching is a widely studied technique aimed to reduce the network load imposed by data transmission during peak time while ensuring users' quality of experience. It has been shown that when there is a common link between caches and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Abdollah Ghaffari Sheshjavani , Ahmad Khonsari , Seyed Pooya Shariatpanahi , Masoumeh Moradian

Despite significant progress in the caching literature concerning the worst case and uniform average case regimes, the algorithms for caching with nonuniform demands are still at a basic stage and mostly rely on simple grouping and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Pierre Quinton , Saeid Sahraei , Michael Gastpar

In a content delivery network (CDN), resources are strained during peak-time and underutilised in off-peak times when supplying digital content to users. Caching can help balance this. At the off-peak time some content is delivered to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-13 S. -L. Ng , M. B. Paterson , E. A. Quaglia

Coded caching leverages the differences in user cache memories to achieve gains that scale with the total cache size, alleviating network congestion due to high-quality content requests. Additionally, distributing transmitters over a wide…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Kagan Akcay , Eleftherios Lampiris , MohammadJavad Salehi , Giuseppe Caire

In this paper, we consider a multi-access coded caching system with decentralized prefetching, where a server hosts $N$ files, each of size $F$ bits, and is connected to $K$ users through a shared link. There are $c$ caches distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Monolina Dutta , Anoop Thomas , B. Sundar Rajan

This paper considers heterogeneous coded caching where the users have unequal distortion requirements. The server is connected to the users via an error-free multicast link and designs the users' cache sizes subject to a total memory…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-28 Abdelrahman M. Ibrahim , Ahmed A. Zewail , Aylin Yener

Coded caching is a technique that promises huge reductions in network traffic in content-delivery networks. However, the original formulation and several subsequent contributions in the area, assume that the file requests from the users are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Hooshang Ghasemi , Aditya Ramamoorthy

Coded caching is a recently proposed technique that achieves significant performance gains for cache networks compared to uncoded caching schemes. However, this substantial coding gain is attained at the cost of large delivery delay, which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Urs Niesen , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali

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

Cache-aided coded multicast leverages side information at wireless edge caches to efficiently serve multiple groupcast demands via common multicast transmissions, leading to load reductions that are proportional to the aggregate cache size.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Parisa Hassanzadeh , Antonia Tulino , Jaime Llorca , Elza Erkip

In this paper, we investigate the transmission delay of cache-aided broadcast networks with user cooperation. Novel coded caching schemes are proposed for both centralized and decentralized caching settings, by efficiently exploiting time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Jiahui Chen , Xiaowen You , Youlong Wu , Shuai Ma