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Private Information Retrieval (PIR) is a fundamental problem in the broader fields of security and privacy. In recent years, the problem has garnered significant attention from the research community, leading to achievability schemes and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Ningze Wang , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Alex Sprintson

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

This paper considers the problem of single-server Individually-Private Information Retrieval with side information (IPIR). In this problem, there is a remote server that stores a dataset of $K$ messages, and there is a user that initially…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Alex Sprintson

We introduce the \emph{Private Structured-Subset Retrieval (PSSR)} problem, where a user retrieves $D$ messages from a database of $K$ messages replicated across $N$ non-colluding servers, and the demand is restricted to a known structured…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Maha Issa , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh

In a typical formulation of the private information retrieval (PIR) problem, a single user wishes to retrieve one out of $ K$ files from $N$ servers without revealing the demanded file index to any server. This paper formulates an extended…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Ali Gholami , Kai Wan , Tayyebeh Jahani-Nezhad , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire

In this paper, the problem of providing privacy to users requesting data over a network from a distributed storage system (DSS) is considered. The DSS, which is considered as the multi-terminal destination of the network from the user's…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Razane Tajeddine , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Camilla Hollanti

This paper revisits the problem of multi-server Private Information Retrieval with Private Side Information (PIR-PSI). In this problem, $N$ non-colluding servers store identical copies of $K$ messages, each comprising $L$ symbols from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Leila Erhili , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh

Suppose there are $N$ distributed databases each storing a full set of $M$ independent files. A user wants to retrieve $r$ out of the $M$ files without revealing the identity of the $r$ files. When $r=1$ it is the classic problem of private…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Zhifang Zhang , Jingke Xu

This paper considers the problem of multi-server Private Linear Computation, under the joint and individual privacy guarantees. In this problem, identical copies of a dataset comprised of $K$ messages are stored on $N$ non-colluding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Nahid Esmati , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh

We formulate a new variant of the private information retrieval (PIR) problem where the user is pliable, i.e., interested in any message from a desired subset of the available dataset, denoted as pliable private information retrieval…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Sarah A. Obead , Jörg Kliewer

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 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

In this paper, we consider the multi-server setting of Private Information Retrieval with Private Coded Side Information (PIR-PCSI) problem. In this problem, there is a database of $K$ messages whose copies are replicated across $N$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Fatemeh Kazemi , Esmaeil Karimi , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Alex Sprintson

The problem of providing privacy, in the private information retrieval (PIR) sense, to users requesting data from a distributed storage system (DSS), is considered. The DSS is coded by an $(n,k,d)$ Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) code to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Razan Tajeddine , Oliver W. Gnilke , Salim El Rouayheb

Suppose a database containing $M$ records is replicated across $N$ servers, and a user wants to privately retrieve one record by accessing the servers such that identity of the retrieved record is secret against any up to $T$ servers. A…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Jingke Xu , Zhifang Zhang

We study Private Information Retrieval with Side Information (PIR-SI) in the single-server multi-message setting. In this setting, a user wants to download $D$ messages from a database of $K\geq D$ messages, stored on a single server,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Brenden Garcia , Swanand Kadhe , Salim El Rouayheb , Alex Sprintson

This work introduces the \emph{Secure and Private Structured-Subset Retrieval (SPSSR)} problem. In SPSSR, a user wishes to retrieve one subset from an arbitrary family of size-$D$ subsets from $K$ messages replicated across $N$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Maha Issa , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh

We introduce the \emph{Private Contiguous-Block Retrieval (PCBR)} problem, where a user retrieves a block of $D$ messages with contiguous indices from $K$ replicated messages stored across $N$ non-colluding servers, while hiding the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Maha Issa , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh

In the problem of cache-aided multiuser private information retrieval (MuPIR), a set of $K_{\rm u}$ cache-equipped users wish to privately download a set of messages from $N$ distributed databases each holding a library of $K$ messages. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Xiang Zhang , Kai Wan , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire

Private information retrieval (PIR) is the problem of retrieving as efficiently as possible, one out of $K$ messages from $N$ non-communicating replicated databases (each holds all $K$ messages) while keeping the identity of the desired…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Hua Sun , Syed A. Jafar
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