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Content delivery networks store information distributed across multiple servers, so as to balance the load and avoid unrecoverable losses in case of node or disk failures. Coded caching has been shown to be a useful technique which can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Tianqiong Luo , Vaneet Aggarwal , Borja Peleato

Caching is an efficient way to reduce network traffic congestion during peak hours, by storing some content at the user's local cache memory, even without knowledge of user's later demands. Maddah-Ali and Niesen proposed a two-phase…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Kai Wan , Daniela Tuninetti , Pablo Piantanida

Differential distributed space-time coding (D-DSTC) has been considered to improve both diversity and data-rate in cooperative communications in the absence of channel information. However, conventionally, it is assumed that relays are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 M. R. Avendi , Sina Poorkasmaei , Hamid Jafarkhani

An index code is said to be locally decodable if each receiver can decode its demand using its side information and by querying only a subset of the transmitted codeword symbols instead of observing the entire codeword. Local decodability…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-18 Lakshmi Natarajan , Hoang Dau , Prasad Krishnan , V. Lalitha

In this paper, we design Top-DP, a novel solution to optimize the differential privacy protection of decentralized image classification systems. The key insight of our solution is to leverage the unique features of decentralized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Shangwei Guo , Tianwei Zhang , Guowen Xu , Han Yu , Tao Xiang , Yang Liu

The index coding problem studies the fundamental limit on broadcasting multiple messages to their respective receivers with different sets of side information that are represented by a directed graph. The generalized lexicographic product…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Fatemeh Arbabjolfaei , Young-Han Kim

In Pliable Private Information Retrieval (PPIR) with a single server, messages are partitioned into $\Gamma$ non-overlapping classes. The user wants to retrieve a message from its desired class without revealing the identity of the desired…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Megha Rayer , Charul Rajput , B. Sundar Rajan

We introduce the \emph{Private Contiguous-Block Retrieval (PCBR)} problem, where a user retrieves a block of $D$ messages with contiguous indices from $K$ replicated messages stored across $N$ non-colluding servers, while hiding the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Maha Issa , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh

We develop a low-complexity polar coding scheme for the discrete memoryless broadcast channel with confidential messages under strong secrecy and randomness constraints. Our scheme extends previous work by using an optimal rate of uniform…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-08 Remi A. Chou , Matthieu R. Bloch

We propose capacity-achieving schemes for private information retrieval (PIR) from uncoded databases (DBs) with both homogeneous and heterogeneous storage constraints. In the PIR setting, a user queries a set of DBs to privately download a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Nicholas Woolsey , Rong-Rong Chen , Mingyue Ji

Content-Centric Networking (CCN) offers a novel architectural paradigm that seeks to address the inherent limitations of the prevailing Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking model. In contrast to the host-centric communication approach of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Azadeh Sadat Miraftab , Ahmadreza Montazerolghaem , Behrad Mahboobi

This paper revisits the problem of multi-server Private Information Retrieval with Private Side Information (PIR-PSI). In this problem, $N$ non-colluding servers store identical copies of $K$ messages, each comprising $L$ symbols from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Leila Erhili , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh

A popular method of improving the throughput of blockchain systems is by running smaller side blockchains that push the hashes of their blocks onto a trusted blockchain. Side blockchains are vulnerable to stalling attacks where a side…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Debarnab Mitra , Lev Tauz , Lara Dolecek

We consider the problem of coding over the multi-user Interference Channel (IC). It is well-known that aligning the interfering signals results in improved achievable rates in certain setups involving more than two users. We argue that in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-18 F. Shirani , S. S. Pradhan

Broadcasting $K$ independent messages to multiple users where each user demands all the messages and has a subset of the messages as side information is studied. Recently, Natarajan, Hong, and Viterbo proposed a novel broadcasting strategy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-10 Yu-Chih Huang

A single unicast index coding problem (SUICP) with symmetric neighboring and consecutive side-information (SNCS) has $K$ messages and $K$ receivers, the $k$th receiver $R_k$ wanting the $k$th message $x_k$ and having the side-information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Mahesh Babu Vaddi , B. Sundar Rajan

This paper considers the problem of distributed source coding for a large network. A major obstacle that poses an existential threat to practical deployment of conventional approaches to distributed coding is the exponential growth of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-08 Kumar Viswanatha , Sharadh Ramaswamy , Ankur Saxena , Emrah Akyol , Kenneth Rose

In the coded caching problem, as originally formulated by Maddah-Ali and Niesen, a server communicates via a noiseless shared broadcast link to multiple users that have local storage capability. In order for a user to decode its demanded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Kai Wan , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Daniela Tuninetti , Giuseppe Caire

In Information-Centric Networking (ICN), consumers send interest packets to the network and receive data packets as a response to their request without taking care of the producers, which have provided the content, contrary to conventional…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-07-03 H. Malik , C. Adjih , C. Weidmann , M. Kieffer

Existing decentralized coded caching solutions cannot guarantee small loads in the general scenario with arbitrary file sizes and cache sizes. In this paper, we propose an optimization framework for decentralized coded caching in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Qi Wang , Ying Cui , Sian Jin , Junni Zou , Chenglin Li , Hongkai Xiong