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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

In this paper, we study the multi-server setting of the \emph{Private Information Retrieval with Coded Side Information (PIR-CSI)} problem. In this problem, there are $K$ messages replicated across $N$ servers, and there is a user who…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Fatemeh Kazemi , Esmaeil Karimi , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Alex Sprintson

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

We consider the problem of private information retrieval (PIR) of a single message out of $K$ messages from $N$ replicated and non-colluding databases where a cache-enabled user (retriever) of cache-size $S$ possesses side information in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Yi-Peng Wei , Sennur Ulukus

This paper considers the problem of single-server single-message private information retrieval with coded side information (PIR-CSI). In this problem, there is a server storing a database, and a user which knows a linear combination of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Fatemeh Kazemi , Alex Sprintson

This paper introduces the problem of Private Information Retrieval with Reusable and Single-use Side Information (PIR-RSSI). In this problem, one or more remote servers store identical copies of a set of $K$ messages, and there is a user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Alex Sprintson

We consider the problem of private information retrieval (PIR) where a single user with private side information aims to retrieve multiple files from a library stored (uncoded) at a number of servers. We assume the side information at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Seyed Pooya Shariatpanahi , Mahdi Jafari Siavoshani , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali

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

Multi-server single-message private information retrieval is studied in the presence of side information. In this problem, $K$ independent messages are replicatively stored at $N$ non-colluding servers. The user wants to privately download…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Su Li , Michael Gastpar

This paper introduces a generalization of the Private Information Retrieval with Side Information (PIR-SI) problem called Popularity-Aware PIR-SI (PA-PIR-SI). The PA-PIR-SI problem includes one or more remote servers storing copies of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Alejandro Gomez-Leos , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh

We study the problem of single-server single-message Private Information Retrieval with Private Coded Side Information (PIR-PCSI). In this problem, there is a server that stores a database, and a user who knows a random linear combination…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Fatemeh Kazemi , Alex Sprintson

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

We study the problem of Private Information Retrieval (PIR) in the presence of prior side information. The problem setup includes a database of $K$ independent messages possibly replicated on several servers, and a user that needs to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-04 Swanand Kadhe , Brenden Garcia , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Salim El Rouayheb , Alex Sprintson

Motivated by an open problem and a conjecture, this work studies the problem of single server private information retrieval with private coded side information (PIR-PCSI) that was recently introduced by Heidarzadeh et al. The goal of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Yuxiang Lu , Syed Ali Jafar

We study the problem of single-server multi-message private information retrieval with side information. One user wants to recover $N$ out of $K$ independent messages which are stored at a single server. The user initially possesses a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-20 Su Li , Michael Gastpar

In the private information retrieval (PIR) problem a user wishes to retrieve, as efficiently as possible, one out of $K$ messages from $N$ non-communicating databases (each holds all $K$ messages) while revealing nothing about the identity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Hua Sun , Syed A. Jafar

Consider the problem of private information retrieval (PIR) over a distributed storage system where $M$ records are stored across $N$ servers by using an $[N,K]$ MDS code. For simplicity, this problem is usually referred as the coded PIR…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-18 Jingke Xu , Zhifang Zhang

We consider the problem of private information retrieval (PIR) over a distributed storage system. The storage system consists of $N$ non-colluding databases, each storing a coded version of $M$ messages. In the PIR problem, the user wishes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-27 Karim Banawan , Sennur Ulukus

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 constructing capacity-achieving linear codes with minimum message size for private information retrieval (PIR) from $N$ non-colluding databases, where each message is coded using maximum distance separable (MDS) codes, such that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Ruida Zhou , Chao Tian , Hua Sun , Tie Liu
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