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Distributed linearly separable computation is a fundamental problem in large-scale distributed systems, requiring the computation of linearly separable functions over different datasets across distributed workers. This paper studies a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Ziting Zhang , Kai Wan , Minquan Cheng , Shuo Shao , Giuseppe Caire

We consider the function computation problem in a three node network with one encoder and two decoders. The encoder has access to two correlated sources $X$ and $Y$. The encoder encodes $X^n$ and $Y^n$ into a message which is given to two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-05 Jithin Ravi , Bikash Kumar Dey

We revisit the classic broadcast problem, wherein we have $k$ messages, each composed of $O(\log{n})$ bits, distributed arbitrarily across a network. The objective is to broadcast these messages to all nodes in the network. In the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Shashwat Chandra , Yi-Jun Chang , Michal Dory , Mohsen Ghaffari , Dean Leitersdorf

Coded computation is a framework which provides redundancy in distributed computing systems to speed up largescale tasks. Although most existing works assume an error-free scenarios in a master-worker setup, the link failures are common in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Dong-Jun Han , Jy-yong Sohn , Jaekyun Moon

A cache-aided $K$-user Gaussian broadcast channel (BC) is studied. The transmitter has a library of $N$ files, from which each user requests one. The users are equipped with caches of different sizes, which are filled without the knowledge…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri , Deniz Gunduz

The work considers the $N$-server distributed computing scenario with $K$ users requesting functions that are linearly-decomposable over an arbitrary basis of $L$ real (potentially non-linear) subfunctions. In our problem, the aim is for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Ali Khalesi , Petros Elia

We characterise bounds on the optimal broadcast rate for a few classes of pliable-index-coding instances. Unlike the majority of currently solved instances, which belong to a special class where all receivers with a certain side-information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Lawrence Ong , Badri N. Vellambi , Parastoo Sadeghi , Jörg Kliewer

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 this work, we consider the problem of distributed computing of functions of structured sources, focusing on the classical setting of two correlated sources and one user that seeks the outcome of the function while benefiting from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Derya Malak

We study the transmission of confidential messages across a wireless broadcast channel with K>2 receivers and K helpers. The goal is to transmit all messages reliably to their intended receivers while keeping them confidential from the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-06 Parisa Babaheidarian , Somayeh Salimi , Panos Papadimitratos

In this paper, we study the problem of information-theoretic distributed multi-user point function, involving a trusted master node, $N \in \mathbb{N}$ server nodes, and $K\in \mathbb{N}$ users, where each user has access to the contents of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Ali Khalesi , Bahareh Akhbari

Our work addresses the well-known open problem of distributed computing of bilinear functions of two correlated sources ${\bf A}$ and ${\bf B}$. In a setting with two nodes, with the first node having access to ${\bf A}$ and the second to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Derya Malak

This paper considers the K user cognitive interference channel with one primary and K-1 secondary/cognitive transmitters with a cumulative message sharing structure, i.e cognitive transmitter $i\in [2:K]$ knows non-causally all messages of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-29 Diana Maamari , Daniela Tuninetti , Natasha Devroye

In this paper, we investigate the transmission delay of cache-aided broadcast networks with user cooperation. Novel coded caching schemes are proposed for both centralized and decentralized caching settings, by efficiently exploiting time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Jiahui Chen , Xiaowen You , Youlong Wu , Shuai Ma

We consider a mobile edge computing problem, in which mobile users offload their computation tasks to computing nodes (e.g., base stations) at the network edge. The edge nodes compute the requested functions and communicate the computed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-26 Songze Li , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , A. Salman Avestimehr

Emerging edge computing paradigms enable heterogeneous devices to collaborate on complex computation applications. However, for congestible links and computing units, delay-optimal forwarding and offloading for service chain tasks (e.g.,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Jinkun Zhang , Yuezhou Liu , Edmund Yeh

Distributed function computation is the problem, for a networked system of $n$ autonomous agents, to collectively compute the value $f(v_1, \ldots, v_n)$ of some input values, each initially private to one agent in the network. Here, we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Bernadette Charron-Bost , Patrick Lambein-Monette

We consider a MapReduce-type task running in a distributed computing model which consists of ${K}$ edge computing nodes distributed across the edge of the network and a Master node that assists the edge nodes to compute output functions.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Haoning Chen , Youlong Wu

We study network response to queries that require computation of remotely located data and seek to characterize the performance limits in terms of maximum sustainable query rate that can be satisfied. The available resources include (i) a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Apostolos Destounis , Georgios S. Paschos , Iordanis Koutsopoulos

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