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We give new constructions of two classes of algebraic code families which are efficiently list decodable with small output list size from a fraction $1-R-\epsilon$ of adversarial errors where $R$ is the rate of the code, for any desired…

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Cache-aided content delivery is studied in a multi-server system with $P$ servers and $K$ users, each equipped with a local cache memory. In the delivery phase, each user connects randomly to any $\rho$ out of $P$ servers. Thanks to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-16 Nitish Mital , Deniz Gunduz , Cong Ling

In this paper, we introduce a model of a distributed storage system that is locally recoverable from any single server failure. Unlike the usual local recovery model of codes for distributed storage, this model accounts for the fact that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Arya Mazumdar

We investigate the problem of maintaining an encoded distributed storage system when some nodes contain adversarial errors. Using the error-correction capabilities that are built into the existing redundancy of the system, we propose a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Theodoros K. Dikaliotis , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Tracey Ho

This paper studies the fundamental limits of the shared-link coded caching problem with correlated files, where a server with a library of $N$ files communicates with $K$ users who can locally cache $M$ files. Given an integer $r \in [N]$,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Kai Wan , Daniela Tuninetti , Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire

Coded caching is a technique that leverages locally cached contents at the end users to reduce the network's peak-time communication load. Coded caching has been shown to achieve significant performance gains with a centralized placement…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Yinbin Ma , Daniela Tuninetti

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

In this paper, we study the capacity region of the general distributed index coding. In contrast to the traditional centralized index coding where a single server contains all $n$ messages requested by the receivers, in the distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Parastoo Sadeghi , Fatemeh Arbabjolfaei , Young-Han Kim

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

In a distributed storage system, code symbols are dispersed across space in nodes or storage units as opposed to time. In settings such as that of a large data center, an important consideration is the efficient repair of a failed node.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-13 S. B. Balaji , M. Nikhil Krishnan , Myna Vajha , Vinayak Ramkumar , Birenjith Sasidharan , P. Vijay Kumar

In a distributed storage system based on erasure coding, an important problem is the \emph{repair problem}: If a node storing a coded piece fails, in order to maintain the same level of reliability, we need to create a new encoded piece and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yunnan Wu

Coded caching is a promising technique to create coded multicast opportunities for cache-aided networks. By splitting each file into $F$ equal packets (i.e., the subpacketization level $F$) and letting each user cache a set of packets, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Minquan Cheng , Yifei Huang , Youlong Wu , Jinyan Wang

The design of block codes for short information blocks (e.g., a thousand or less information bits) is an open research problem which is gaining relevance thanks to emerging applications in wireless communication networks. In this work, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-05 Gianluigi Liva , Lorenzo Gaudio , Tudor Ninacs , Thomas Jerkovits

Network based on distributed caching of content is a new architecture to alleviate the ongoing explosive demands for rate of multi-media traffic. In caching networks, coded caching is a recently proposed technique that achieves significant…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-16 Qifa Yan , Xiaohu Tang , Qingchun Chen

We consider the problem of storing data in a distributed manner over $T$ servers. We require the data (i) to be recoverable from the $T$ servers, and (ii) to remain private from any $T-1$ colluding servers, where privacy is quantified in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Remi A. Chou , Joerg Kliewer

Inspired by prior work by Tian and by Cao and Xu, this paper presents an efficient computer-aided framework to characterize the fundamental limits of coded caching systems under the constraint of linear coding. The proposed framework…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Niccolò Brembilla , Yinbin Ma , Pietro Belotti , Federico Malucelli , Daniela Tuninetti

Centralized coded caching problem is studied for the two-user scenario, considering heterogeneous cache capacities at the users and private channels from the server to the users, in addition to a shared channel. Optimal caching and delivery…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Daming Cao , Deyao Zhang , Pengyao Chen , Nan Liu , Wei Kang , Deniz Gündüz

Consider a distributed coding for computing problem with constant decoding locality, i.e., with a vanishing error probability, any single sample of the function can be approximately recovered by probing only constant number of compressed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Deheng Yuan , Tao Guo , Zhongyi Huang , Shi Jin

We study the problem of coded caching when the server has access to several libraries and each user makes independent requests from every library. The single-library scenario has been well studied and it has been proved that coded caching…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-25 Saeid Sahraei , Michael Gastpar

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