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We study the problem of multi-access coded caching (MACC): a central server has $N$ files, $K$ ($K \leq N$) caches each of which stores $M$ out of the $N$ files, $K$ users each of which demands one out of the $N$ files, and each user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Niladri Das , B. Sundar Rajan

In a modern distributed storage system, storage nodes are organized in racks, and the cross-rack communication dominates the system bandwidth. In We study the rack-aware storage system where all storage nodes are organized in racks and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Liyang Zhou , Zhifang Zhang

Coded distributed computing introduced by Li et al. in 2015 is an efficient approach to trade computing power to reduce the communication load in general distributed computing frameworks such as MapReduce. In particular, Li et al. show that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Nicholas Woolsey , Rong-Rong Chen , Mingyue Ji

Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) is booming as a promising paradigm to push the computation and communication resources from cloud to the network edge to provide services and to perform computations. With container technologies, mobile…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Hailiang Zhao , Shuiguang Deng , Zijie Liu , Jianwei Yin , Schahram Dustdar

We consider a wireless distributed computing system based on the MapReduce framework, which consists of three phases: \textit{Map}, \textit{Shuffle}, and \textit{Reduce}. The system consists of a set of distributed nodes assigned to compute…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Elizabath Peter , K. K. Krishnan Namboodiri , B. Sundar Rajan

We study fundamental graph problems such as graph connectivity, minimum spanning forest (MSF), and approximate maximum (weight) matching in a distributed setting. In particular, we focus on the Adaptive Massively Parallel Computation (AMPC)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Soheil Behnezhad , Laxman Dhulipala , Hossein Esfandiari , Jakub Łącki , Vahab Mirrokni , Warren Schudy

We consider efficient communications over the multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) multiway distributed relay channel (MDRC) with full data exchange, where each user, equipped with multiple antennas, broadcasts its message to all the other…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-28 Xiang Zhao , Jianwen Zhang , Yingjun Zhang , Xiaojun Yuan

Gradient descent (GD) methods are commonly employed in machine learning problems to optimize the parameters of the model in an iterative fashion. For problems with massive datasets, computations are distributed to many parallel computing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Emre Ozfatura , Deniz Gunduz , Sennur Ulukus

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

Coded distributed computing (CDC) introduced by Li \emph{et al.} can greatly reduce the communication load for MapReduce computing systems. In the general cascaded CDC with $K$ workers, $N$ input files and $Q$ Reduce functions, each input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Minquan Cheng , Youlong Wu , Xianxian Li , Dianhua Wu

This paper studies a multiaccess coded caching (MACC) where the connectivity topology between the users and the caches can be described by a class of combinatorial designs. Our model includes as special cases several MACC topologies…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Minquan Cheng , Kai Wan , Petros Elia , Giuseppe Caire

Today, two major trends are shaping the evolution of ML systems. First, modern AI systems are becoming increasingly complex, often integrating components beyond the model itself. A notable example is Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG),…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Wenqi Jiang

Physical-layer network coding (PNC) is a promising approach for wireless networks. It allows nodes to transmit simultaneously. Due to the difficulties of scheduling simultaneous transmissions, existing works on PNC are based on simplified…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-05-15 Shiqiang Wang , Qingyang Song , Xingwei Wang , Abbas Jamalipour

This work considers reliable transmission of general correlated sources over the multiple-access relay channel (MARC) and the multiple-access broadcast relay channel (MABRC). In MARCs only the destination is interested in a reconstruction…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-02 Yonathan Murin , Ron Dabora , Deniz Gündüz

Achieving distributed reinforcement learning (RL) for large-scale cooperative multi-agent systems (MASs) is challenging because: (i) each agent has access to only limited information; (ii) issues on convergence or computational complexity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Gangshan Jing , He Bai , Jemin George , Aranya Chakrabortty , Piyush K. Sharma

Coded distributed computing (CDC) was introduced to greatly reduce the communication load for MapReduce computing systems. Such a system has $K$ nodes, $N$ input files, and $Q$ Reduce functions. Each input file is mapped by $r$ nodes and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Yingjie Cheng , Gaojun Luo , Xiwang Cao , Martianus Frederic Ezerman , San Ling

This paper considers wireless device-to-device (D2D) coded caching in a multiaccess network, where the users communicate with each other and each user can access multiple cache nodes. Access topologies derived from two combinatorial designs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Rashid Ummer N. T. , B. Sundar Rajan

Existing multi-agent coordination techniques are often fragile and vulnerable to anomalies such as agent attrition and communication disturbances, which are quite common in the real-world deployment of systems like field robotics. To better…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-10-27 Anthony Goeckner , Yueyuan Sui , Nicolas Martinet , Xinliang Li , Qi Zhu

This paper studies the multi-access coded caching (MACC) problem with arbitrary user-cache access topology, which extends existing MACC models that rely on highly structured and combinatorially designed topologies. We consider a MACC system…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Ting Yang , Kai Wan , Minquan Cheng , Xinping Yi , Robert Caiming Qiu , Giuseppe Caire

We initiate the study of graph algorithms in the streaming setting on massive distributed and parallel systems inspired by practical data processing systems. The objective is to design algorithms that can efficiently process evolving graphs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Artur Czumaj , Gopinath Mishra , Anish Mukherjee