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We study the problem of secure message multicasting over graphs in the presence of a passive (node) adversary who tries to eavesdrop in the network. We show that use of feedback, facilitated through the existence of cycles or undirected…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-29 Shaunak Mishra , Christina Fragouli , Vinod Prabhakaran , Suhas Diggavi

We give an algorithm for finding the arboricity of a weighted, undirected graph, defined as the minimum number of spanning forests that cover all edges of the graph, in $\sqrt{n} m^{1+o(1)}$ time. This improves on the previous best bound of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Ruoxu Cen , Henry Fleischmann , George Z. Li , Jason Li , Debmalya Panigrahi

Coding schemes for several problems in network information theory are constructed starting from point-to-point channel codes that are designed for symmetric channels. Given that the point-to-point codes satisfy certain properties pertaining…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Nadim Ghaddar , Shouvik Ganguly , Lele Wang , Young-Han Kim

Cooperative multicast is an effective solution to address the bottleneck problem of single-hop broadcast in wireless networks. By incorporating with the random linear network coding technique, the existing schemes can reduce the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-09-19 Fei Wu , Cunqing Hua , Hangguan Shan , Aiping Huang

Network coding has proved its efficiency in increasing the network performance for traditional ad-hoc networks. In this paper, we investigate using network coding for enhancing the throughput of multi-hop cognitive radio networks. We…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-08-12 Arsany Guirguis , Raymond Guirguis , Moustafa Youssef

Network coding is a highly efficient data dissemination mechanism for wireless networks. Since network coded information can only be recovered after delivering a sufficient number of coded packets, the resulting decoding delay can become…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Rui A. Costa , Daniele Munaretto , Joerg Widmer , Joao Barros

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

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

We study upper bounds on the sum-rate of multiple-unicasts. We approximate the Generalized Network Sharing Bound (GNS cut) of the multiple-unicasts network coding problem with $k$ independent sources. Our approximation algorithm runs in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-17 Karthikeyan Shanmugam , Megasthenis Asteris , Alexandros G. Dimakis

In this paper, we consider networks with multiple unicast sessions. Generally, non-linear network coding is needed to achieve the whole rate region of network coding. Yet, there exist networks for which routing is sufficient to achieve the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-01 Chun Meng , Minghua Chen , Athina Markopoulou

Cache-aided coded multicast leverages side information at wireless edge caches to efficiently serve multiple unicast demands via common multicast transmissions, leading to load reductions that are proportional to the aggregate cache size.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Parisa Hassanzadeh , Antonia M. Tulino , Jaime Llorca , Elza Erkip

Multicast is a central challenge for emerging multi-hop wireless architectures such as wireless mesh networks, because of its substantial cost in terms of bandwidth. In this report, we study one specific case of multicast: broadcasting,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-04-16 Song Yean Cho , Cédric Adjih , Philippe Jacquet

Content delivery networks often employ caching to reduce transmission rates from the central server to the end users. Recently, the technique of coded caching was introduced whereby coding in the caches and coded transmission signals from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-16 Hooshang Ghasemi , Aditya Ramamoorthy

We consider scaling laws for maximal energy efficiency of communicating a message to all the nodes in a wireless network, as the number of nodes in the network becomes large. Two cases of large wireless networks are studied -- dense random…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-05-26 Aman Jain , Sanjeev R. Kulkarni , Sergio Verdu

The index coding problem is a fundamental transmission problem which occurs in a wide range of multicast networks. Network coding over a large finite field size has been shown to be a theoretically efficient solution to the index coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-01 Jalaluddin Qureshi , Chuan Heng Foh , Jianfei Cai

The undirected degree/diameter and degree/girth problems and their directed analogues have been studied for many decades in the search for efficient network topologies. Recently such questions have received much attention in the setting of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-05 James Tuite , Grahame Erskine

This paper considers vector network coding based on rank-metric codes and subspace codes. Our main result is that vector network coding can significantly reduce the required field size compared to scalar linear network coding in the same…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-16 Tuvi Etzion , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

We consider several problems related to packing forests in graphs. The first one is to find $k$ edge-disjoint forests in a directed graph $G$ of maximal size such that the indegree of each vertex in these forests is at most $k$. We describe…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Pavel Arkhipov , Vladimir Kolmogorov

In this paper, distributed (or multiterminal) source coding with one distortion criterion and correlated messages is considered. This problem can be also called ``Berger-Yeung problem with correlated messages''. It corresponds to the source…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-08-18 Suhan Choi

In this paper we show that the Index Coding problem captures several important properties of the more general Network Coding problem. An instance of the Index Coding problem includes a server that holds a set of information messages…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-05-12 Salim El Rouayheb , Alex Sprintson , Costas Georghiades