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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 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

We consider the problem of cache-aided multi-user private information retrieval (MuPIR). In this problem, $N$ independent files are replicated across $S \geq 2$ non-colluding servers. There are $K$ users, each equipped with cache memory…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Kanishak Vaidya , B Sundar Rajan

We study a multi-access variant of the popular coded caching framework, which consists of a central server with a catalog of $N$ files, $K$ caches with limited memory $M$, and $K$ users such that each user has access to $L$ consecutive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Kota Srinivas Reddy , Nikhil Karamchandani

The capacity of caching networks has received considerable attention in the past few years. A particularly studied setting is the shared link caching network, in which a single source with access to a file library communicates with multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-25 Mingyue Ji , Antonia Tulino , Jaime Llorca , Giuseppe Caire

We study the problem of private function retrieval (PFR) in a distributed storage system. In PFR the user wishes to retrieve a linear combination of $M$ messages stored in non-colluding $(N,K)$ MDS coded databases while revealing no…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Sarah A. Obead , Jörg Kliewer

The multiaccess coded caching (MACC) system, as formulated by Hachem {\it et al.}, consists of a central server with a library of $N$ files, connected to $K$ cache-less users via an error-free shared link, and $K$ cache nodes, each equipped…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Wenbo Huang , Minquan Cheng , Kai Wan , Xiaojun Li , Robert Caiming Qiu , Giuseppe Caire

We consider the problem of cache-aided Multiuser Private Information Retrieval (MuPIR) which is an extension of the single-user cache-aided PIR problem to the case of multiple users. In MuPIR, each of the $K_{\rm u}$ cache-equipped users…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Xiang Zhang , Kai Wan , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire

This paper investigates the coded caching problem in a multi-access multiple-input single-output (MAMISO) network with the combinatorial topology. The considered system consists of a server containing $N$ files, $\Lambda$ cache nodes, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Siying Luo , Youlong Wu , Mingming Zhang , Minquan Cheng , Dianhua Wu

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

A cache-aided compression problem with perfect privacy is studied, where a server has access to a database of $N$ files, $(Y_1,...,Y_N)$, each of size $F$ bits. The server is connected to $K$ users through a shared link, where each user has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Amirreza Zamani , Mikael Skoglund

Coded caching is a promising technique to smooth out network traffic by storing part of the library content at the users' local caches. The seminal work on coded caching for single file retrieval by Maddah-Ali and Niesen (MAN) showed the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Kai Wan , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Daniela Tuninetti , Giuseppe Caire

We consider the standard broadcast setup with a single server broadcasting information to a number of clients, each of which contains local storage (called \textit{cache}) of some size, which can store some parts of the available files at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Shailja Agrawal , K V Sushena Sree , Prasad Krishnan

A statistical cache-aided compression problem with a privacy constraint is studied, where a server has access to a database of $N$ files, $(Y_1,...,Y_N)$, each of size $F$ bits and is linked through a shared channel to $K$ users, where each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Amirreza Zamani , Mikael Skoglund

This paper studies a novel multi-access coded caching (MACC) model in the two-dimensional (2D) topology, which is a generalization of the one-dimensional (1D) MACC model proposed by Hachem et al. The 2D MACC model is formed by a server…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Mingming Zhang , Kai Wan , Minquan Cheng , Giuseppe Caire

We present a novel caching and coded delivery scheme for a multi-access network where multiple users can have access to the same cache (shared cache) and any cache can assist multiple users. This scheme is obtained from resolvable designs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Digvijay Katyal , Pooja Nayak M , B. Sundar Rajan

We consider the secure coded caching problem proposed by Ravindrakumar et. al where no user can obtain information about files other than the one requested. We first propose three new schemes for the three cases of cache size $M=1$, $N=2$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Han Fang , Nan Liu , Wei Kang

An information theoretic approach to security and privacy called Secure And Private Information Retrieval (SAPIR) is introduced. SAPIR is applied to distributed data storage systems. In this approach, random combinations of all contents are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Mohsen Karimzadeh Kiskani , Hamid Sadjadpour

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

Caching appears to be an efficient way to reduce peak hour network traffic congestion by storing some content at the user's cache without knowledge of later demands. Recently, Maddah-Ali and Niesen proposed a two-phase, placement and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-28 Kai Wan , Daniela Tuninetti , Pablo Piantanida