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This paper considers the MapReduce-like coded distributed computing framework originally proposed by Li et al., which uses coding techniques when distributed computing servers exchange their computed intermediate values, in order to reduce…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Kai Wan , Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire

This paper studies MapReduce-based heterogeneous coded distributed computing (CDC) where, besides different computing capabilities at workers, input files to be accessed by computing jobs have nonuniform popularity. We propose a file…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Yong Deng , Min Dong

Large scale clusters leveraging distributed computing frameworks such as MapReduce routinely process data that are on the orders of petabytes or more. The sheer size of the data precludes the processing of the data on a single computer. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-12 Konstantinos Konstantinidis , Aditya Ramamoorthy

We consider a coded distributed computing problem in a ring-based communication network, where $N$ computing nodes are arranged in a ring topology and each node can only communicate with its neighbors within a constant distance $d$. To…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Zhenhao Huang , Minquan Cheng , Kai Wan , Qifu Tyler Sun , Youlong Wu

Distributed computing has become a common approach for large-scale computation of tasks due to benefits such as high reliability, scalability, computation speed, and costeffectiveness. However, distributed computing faces critical issues…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Jer Shyuan Ng , Wei Yang Bryan Lim , Nguyen Cong Luong , Zehui Xiong , Alia Asheralieva , Dusit Niyato , Cyril Leung , Chunyan Miao

Coded caching is a promising technique to effectively reduce peak traffic by using local caches and the multicast gains generated by these local caches. We prefer to design a coded caching scheme with the subpacketization $F$ and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Minquan Cheng , Huimei Wei , Kai Wan , Giuseppe Caire

In large scale distributed computing systems, communication overhead is one of the major bottlenecks. In the map-shuffle-reduce framework, which is one of the major distributed computing frameworks, the communication load among servers can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Shunsuke Horii

We consider the problem of coded distributed computing where a large linear computational job, such as a matrix multiplication, is divided into $k$ smaller tasks, encoded using an $(n,k)$ linear code, and performed over $n$ distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Mohammad Vahid Jamali , Mahdi Soleymani , Hessam Mahdavifar

Coded distributed computing can reduce the communication load for distributed computing systems by introducing redundant computation and creating multicasting opportunities. However, the existing schemes require delicate data placement and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Yuhan Wang , Youlong Wu

Today's data centers have an abundance of computing resources, hosting server clusters consisting of as many as tens or hundreds of thousands of machines. To execute a complex computing task over a data center, it is natural to distribute…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-24 Qian Yu , Songze Li , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , A. Salman Avestimehr

Performance of distributed graph processing systems significantly suffers from 'communication bottleneck' as a large number of messages are exchanged among servers at each step of the computation. Motivated by graph based MapReduce, we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Saurav Prakash , Amirhossein Reisizadeh , Ramtin Pedarsani , Amir Salman Avestimehr

We consider the problem of coded distributed computing where a large linear computational job, such as a matrix multiplication, is divided into $k$ smaller tasks, encoded using an $(n,k)$ linear code, and performed over $n$ distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Mahdi Soleymani , Mohammad Vahid Jamali , Hessam Mahdavifar

Consider a distributed computing system in which the worker nodes are connected over a shared wireless channel. Nodes can store a fraction of the data set over which computation needs to be carried out, and a Map-Shuffle-Reduce protocol is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Sukjong Ha , Jingjing Zhang , Osvaldo Simeone , Joonhyuk Kang

Deploying Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) on resource-constrained devices necessitates efficient management of computational resources, often via distributed environments susceptible to latency from straggler nodes. This paper…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Shuo Tan , Rui Liu , Xuesong Han , XianLei Long , Kai Wan , Linqi Song , Yong Li

Collaborative mobile edge computing (MEC) has emerged as a promising paradigm to enable low-capability edge nodes to cooperatively execute computation-intensive tasks. However, straggling edge nodes (stragglers) significantly degrade the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Houming Qiu , Kun Zhu , Dusit Niyato , Nguyen Cong Luong , Changyan Yi , Chen Dai

Coded distributed computing can alleviate the communication load by leveraging the redundant storage and computation resources with coding techniques in distributed computing. In this paper, we study a MapReduce-type distributed computing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Qifa Yan , Xiaohu Tang , Meixia Tao , Qin Huang

This paper formulates a distributed computation problem, where a master asks $N$ distributed workers to compute a linearly separable function. The task function can be expressed as $K_c$ linear combinations of $K$ messages, where each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Kai Wan , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire

Distributed computing frameworks such as MapReduce are often used to process large computational jobs. They operate by partitioning each job into smaller tasks executed on different servers. The servers also need to exchange intermediate…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Konstantinos Konstantinidis , Aditya Ramamoorthy

Linear nested codes, where two or more sub-codes are nested in a global code, have been proposed as candidates for reliable multi-terminal communication. In this paper, we consider nested array-based spatially coupled low-density…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Salman Habib , David G. M. Mitchell , Joerg Kliewer

Batch codes, introduced by Ishai, Kushilevitz, Ostrovsky and Sahai, represent the distributed storage of an $n$-element data set on $m$ servers in such a way that any batch of $k$ data items can be retrieved by reading at most one (or more…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-11-12 Natalia Silberstein , Anna Gál