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We consider private information retrieval (PIR) for distributed storage systems (DSSs) with noncolluding nodes where data is stored using a non maximum distance separable (MDS) linear code. It was recently shown that if data is stored using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Hsuan-Yin Lin , Siddhartha Kumar , Eirik Rosnes , Alexandre Graell i Amat

We reformulate the definition of privacy in the private information retrieval (PIR) problem to accommodate flexible privacy requirements. We focus on graph-replicated PIR, with a generalized privacy requirement, instead of requiring all…

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

This paper presents private information retrieval (PIR) schemes for coded storage with colluding servers, which are not restricted to maximum distance separable (MDS) codes. PIR schemes for general linear codes are constructed and the…

In (single-server) Private Information Retrieval (PIR), a server holds a large database $DB$ of size $n$, and a client holds an index $i \in [n]$ and wishes to retrieve $DB[i]$ without revealing $i$ to the server. It is well known that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-05 Dorit Aharonov , Zvika Brakerski , Kai-Min Chung , Ayal Green , Ching-Yi Lai , Or Sattath

We study the problem of weakly private information retrieval (PIR) when there is heterogeneity in servers' trustworthiness under the maximal leakage (Max-L) metric and mutual information (MI) metric. A user wishes to retrieve a desired…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Wenyuan Zhao , Yu-Shin Huang , Ruida Zhou , Chao Tian

Index coding and coded caching are two active research topics in information theory with strong ties to each other. Motivated by the multi-access coded caching problem, we study a new class of structured index coding problems (ICPs) which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Kota Srinivas Reddy , Nikhil Karamchandani

The problem of $X$-secure $T$-private information retrieval from MDS coded storage is studied in this paper, where the user wishes to privately retrieve one out of $K$ independent messages that are distributed over $N$ servers according to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Zhuqing Jia , Syed A. Jafar

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

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Dhruv Pratap Singh , Anjana A. Mahesh , B. Sundar Rajan

This paper considers the single-server Private Linear Transformation (PLT) problem when individual privacy is required. In this problem, there is a user that wishes to obtain $L$ linear combinations of a $D$-subset of messages belonging to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Nahid Esmati , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Alex Sprintson

Caching is popular technique in content delivery networks that allows for reductions in transmission rates from the content-hosting server to the end users. Coded caching is a generalization of conventional caching that considers the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-28 Li Tang , Aditya Ramamoorthy

Distributed computing enables scalable machine learning by distributing tasks across multiple nodes, but ensuring privacy in such systems remains a challenge. This paper introduces a novel private coded distributed computing model that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Shanuja Sasi , Onur Günlü

We consider the private information retrieval (PIR) problem from decentralized uncoded caching databases. There are two phases in our problem setting, a caching phase, and a retrieval phase. In the caching phase, a data center containing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Yi-Peng Wei , Batuhan Arasli , Karim Banawan , Sennur Ulukus

The private search problem is introduced, where a dataset comprised of $L$ i.i.d. records is replicated across $N$ non-colluding servers, each record takes values uniformly from an alphabet of size $K$, and a user wishes to search for all…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-19 Zhen Chen , Zhiying Wang , Syed Jafar

In this paper, we study the capacity region of the general distributed index coding. In contrast to the traditional centralized index coding where a single server contains all $n$ messages requested by the receivers, in the distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Parastoo Sadeghi , Fatemeh Arbabjolfaei , Young-Han Kim

Private information retrieval (PIR) is a database query protocol that provides user privacy, in that the user can learn a particular entry of the database of his interest but his query would be hidden from the data centre. Symmetric private…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-19 Wen Yu Kon , Charles Ci Wen Lim

This work investigates a system where each user aims to retrieve a scalar linear function of the files of a library, which are Maximum Distance Separable coded and stored at multiple distributed servers. The system needs to guarantee robust…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Qifa Yan , Daniela Tuninetti

This paper considers the single-server Private Linear Transformation (PLT) problem with individual privacy guarantees. In this problem, there is a user that wishes to obtain $L$ independent linear combinations of a $D$-subset of messages…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Nahid Esmati , Alex Sprintson

The problem of symmetric private information retrieval (SPIR) from replicated databases with colluding servers and adversaries is studied. Specifically, the database comprises $K$ files, which are replicatively stored among $N$ servers. A…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-10 Qiwen Wang , Mikael Skoglund

Coded caching is a technique where we utilize multi-casting opportunities to reduce rate in cached networks. One limitation of coded caching schemes is that they reveal the demands of all users to their peers. In this work, we consider…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Aravind V R , Pradeep Sarvepalli , Andrew Thangaraj

Coded caching is a technique that leverages locally cached contents at the end users to reduce the network's peak-time communication load. Coded caching has been shown to achieve significant performance gains compared to uncoded schemes and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Yinbin Ma , Daniela Tuninetti