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Coded caching schemes on broadcast networks with user caches help to offload traffic from peak times to off-peak times by prefetching information from the server to the users during off-peak times and thus serving the users more efficiently…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Hari Hara Suthan C , Ishani Chugh , Prasad Krishnan

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

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

Centralized coded caching of popular contents is studied for users with heterogeneous distortion requirements, corresponding to diverse processing and display capabilities of mobile devices. Users' distortion requirements are assumed to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-28 Qianqian Yang , Deniz Gunduz

The fast-growing Internet traffic is increasingly becoming content-based and driven by mobile users, with users more interested in data rather than its source. This has precipitated the need for an information-centric Internet architecture.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-03-14 S. Misra , R. Tourani , F. Natividad , T. Mick , N. Majd , H. Huang

This work presents an algorithmic framework that uses linear programming to construct \emph{addition-based Private Information Retrieval (AB-PIR)} schemes, where retrieval is performed by downloading only linear combinations of message…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Ningze Wang , Alex Sprintson

The work identifies the fundamental limits of coded caching when the K receiving users share {\Lambda}$\leq$ K helper-caches, each assisting an arbitrary number of different users. The main result is the derivation of the exact optimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Emanuele Parrinello , Ayşe Ünsal , Petros Elia

Online video streaming has evolved into an integral component of the contemporary Internet landscape. Yet, the disclosure of user requests presents formidable privacy challenges. As users stream their preferred online videos, their requests…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Xianzhi Zhang , Yipeng Zhou , Di Wu , Quan Z. Sheng , Miao Hu , Linchang Xiao

Coded caching (CC) can transform cache memory at network devices into an active communication resource. Prior studies have shown that CC can significantly enhance the achievable Degrees of Freedom (DoF) in multi-input multi-output (MIMO)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Mohammad NaseriTehrani , MohammadJavad Salehi , Antti Tölli

We study the decentralized caching scheme in a two-layer network, which includes a sever, multiple helpers, and multiple users. Basically, the proposed caching scheme consists of two phases, i.e, placement phase and delivery phase. In the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Lin Zhang , Zhao Wang , Ming Xiao , Gang Wu , Ying-Chaang Liang , Shaoqian Li

The coded caching scheme proposed by Maddah-Ali and Niesen (MAN) transmits coded multicast messages to users equipped with caches and it is known to be optimal within a constant factor. This work extends this caching scheme to two-hop relay…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Mozhgan Bayat , Kai Wan , Giuseppe Caire

The correlation among the content distributed across a cache-aided broadcast network can be exploited to reduce the delivery load on the shared wireless link. This paper considers a two-user three-file network with correlated content, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Parisa Hassanzadeh , Antonia M. Tulino , Jaime Llorca , Elza Erkip

We investigate the demand private coded caching problem, which is an $(N,K)$ coded caching problem with $N$ files, $K$ users, each equipped with a cache of size $M$, and an additional privacy constraint on user demands. We first present a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Qinyi Lu , Nan Liu , Wei Kang

We investigate the multi-access coded caching problem, which involves $N$ files, $K$ users, and $K$ caches in this paper. Each user can access $L$ adjacent caches in a cyclic manner. We present a coded placement scheme for the case of cache…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Zeru Chen , Nan Liu , Wei Kang

This work studies a well-known shared-cache coded caching scenario where each cache can serve an arbitrary number of users, analyzing the case where there is some knowledge about such number of users (i.e., the topology) during the content…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Emanuele Parrinello , Antonio Bazco-Nogueras , Petros Elia

Coded caching and device-to-device (D2D) communication are two effective techniques for alleviating network traffic. Secure transmission and file privacy have also become critical concerns in these domains. However, prevailing coded caching…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Qiaoling Zhang , Changlu Lin , Minquan Cheng

Federated learning (FL) based on cloud servers is a distributed machine learning framework that involves an aggregator and multiple clients, which allows multiple clients to collaborate in training a shared model without exchanging data.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Ruyuan Zhang , Jinguang Han

This paper presents a novel achievable scheme for coded caching systems with $N$ files and $K$ users, specifically when $N \leq K$. This new scheme employs linear coding both during the placement phase - where cache contents are linear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Yinbin Ma , Daniela Tuninetti

This article introduces a novel family of decentralised caching policies, applicable to wireless networks with finite storage at the edge-nodes (stations). These policies, that are based on the Least-Recently-Used replacement principle, are…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-12-14 Anastasios Giovanidis , Apostolos Avranas

We propose a new computationally efficient privacy-preserving identification framework based on layered sparse coding. The key idea of the proposed framework is a sparsifying transform learning with ambiguization, which consists of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-25 Behrooz Razeghi , Slava Voloshynovskiy , Sohrab Ferdowsi , Dimche Kostadinov