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We consider the problem of private information retrieval (PIR) of a single message out of $K$ messages from $N$ replicated and non-colluding databases where a cache-enabled user (retriever) of cache-size $M$ possesses side information in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Yi-Peng Wei , Karim Banawan , Sennur Ulukus

Private information retrieval (PIR) allows a user to download one of $K$ messages from $N$ databases without revealing to any database which of the $K$ messages is being downloaded. In general, the databases can be storage constrained where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Nicholas Woolsey , Rong-Rong Chen , Mingyue Ji

We study the problem of multi-access coded caching (MACC): a central server has $N$ files, $K$ ($K \leq N$) caches each of which stores $M$ out of the $N$ files, $K$ users each of which demands one out of the $N$ files, and each user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Niladri Das , B. Sundar Rajan

We consider the problem of private information retrieval (PIR) over a distributed storage system. The storage system consists of $N$ non-colluding databases, each storing a coded version of $M$ messages. In the PIR problem, the user wishes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-27 Karim Banawan , Sennur Ulukus

We study the problem of Private Information Retrieval (PIR) in the presence of prior side information. The problem setup includes a database of $K$ independent messages possibly replicated on several servers, and a user that needs to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-04 Swanand Kadhe , Brenden Garcia , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Salim El Rouayheb , Alex Sprintson

In recent years, the Multi-message Private Information Retrieval (MPIR) problem has received significant attention from the research community. In this problem, a user wants to privately retrieve $D$ messages out of $K$ messages whose…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Ningze Wang , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Alex Sprintson

The problem of symmetric private information retrieval (SPIR) from a coded database which is distributively stored among colluding servers is studied. Specifically, the database comprises $K$ files, which are stored among $N$ servers using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-21 Qiwen Wang , Mikael Skoglund

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

The multi-access variant of the coded caching problem in the presence of an external wiretapper is investigated . A multi-access coded caching scheme with $K$ users, $K$ caches and $N$ files, where each user has access to $L$ neighbouring…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-13 K. K. Krishnan Namboodiri , B. Sundar Rajan

A new computational private information retrieval (PIR) scheme based on random linear codes is presented. A matrix of messages from a McEliece scheme is used to query the server with carefully chosen errors. The server responds with the sum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Lukas Holzbaur , Camilla Hollanti , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

We consider the problem of private information retrieval (PIR) from MDS coded databases with colluding servers, i.e., MDS-TPIR. In the MDS-TPIR setting, $M$ files are stored across $N$ servers, where each file is stored independently using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Rui Sun , Ran Tao , Jingke Xu , Yiwei Zhang

Private information retrieval (PIR) is a cryptographic primitive that allows a client to securely query one or multiple servers without revealing their specific interests. In spite of their strong security guarantees, current PIR…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Mpoki Mwaisela , Peterson Yuhala , Pascal Felber , Valerio Schiavoni

A Private Information Retrieval (PIR) scheme allows users to retrieve data from a database without disclosing to the server information about the identity of the data retrieved. A coded storage in a distributed storage system with colluding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Şeyma Bodur , Edgar Martínez-Moro , Diego Ruano

We consider the problem of noisy private information retrieval (NPIR) from $N$ non-communicating databases, each storing the same set of $M$ messages. In this model, the answer strings are not returned through noiseless bit pipes, but…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Karim Banawan , Sennur Ulukus

We consider the problem of multi-message private information retrieval (MPIR) from $N$ non-communicating replicated databases. In MPIR, the user is interested in retrieving $P$ messages out of $M$ stored messages without leaking the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Karim Banawan , Sennur Ulukus

We consider a variant of the coded caching problem where users connect to two types of caches, called private caches and access caches. The problem setting consists of a server having a library of files and a set of access caches. Every…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Dhruv Pratap Singh , Anjana A. Mahesh , B. Sundar Rajan

The problem of $T$-colluding private information retrieval (PIR) enables the user to retrieve one out of $M$ files from a distributed storage system with $N$ servers without revealing anything about the index of the desired file to any…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Jinbao Zhu , Xiaohu Tang

We consider the multi-access coded caching problem, which contains a central server with $N$ files, $K$ caches with $M$ units of memory each and $K$ users where each one is connected to $L (\geq 1)$ consecutive caches, with a cyclic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Srinivas Reddy Kota , Nikhil Karamchandani

Multi-message private information retrieval (MPIR) is an interesting variation of PIR which allows a user to download multiple messages from the database without revealing the identity of the desired messages. Obviously, the user can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Chatdanai Dorkson , Siaw-Lynn Ng

This paper investigates reducing sub-packetization of capacity-achieving schemes for uncoded Storage Constrained Private Information Retrieval (SC-PIR) systems. In the SC-PIR system, a user aims to retrieve one out of $K$ files from $N$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Jinbao Zhu , Qifa Yan , Xiaohu Tang , Ying Miao