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Coded multicasting has been shown to improve the caching performance of content delivery networks with multiple caches downstream of a common multicast link. However, the schemes that have been shown to achieve order-optimal perfor- mance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-25 Mingyue Ji , Karthikeyan Shanmugam , Giuseppe Vettigli , Jaime Llorca , Antonia M. Tulino , Giuseppe Caire

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

We address a centralized caching problem with unequal cache sizes. We consider a system with a server of files connected through a shared error-free link to a group of cache-enabled users where one subgroup has a larger cache size than the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Behzad Asadi , Lawrence Ong , Sarah J. Johnson

Caching is an efficient way to reduce network traffic congestion during peak hours by storing some content at the users' local caches. For the shared-link network with end-user-caches, Maddah-Ali and Niesen proposed a two-phase coded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Kai Wan , Daniela Tuninetti , Mingyue Ji , Pablo Piantanida

We investigate the problem of optimal request routing and content caching in a heterogeneous network supporting in-network content caching with the goal of minimizing average content access delay. Here, content can either be accessed…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-01-05 Mostafa Dehghan , Anand Seetharam , Bo Jiang , Ting He , Theodoros Salonidis , Jim Kurose , Don Towsley , Ramesh Sitaraman

Optimal caching of files in a content distribution network (CDN) is a problem of fundamental and growing commercial interest. Although many different caching algorithms are in use today, the fundamental performance limits of network caching…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Rajarshi Bhattacharjee , Subhankar Banerjee , Abhishek Sinha

We study the linearizability monitoring problem, which asks whether a given concurrent history of a data structure is equivalent to some sequential execution of the same data structure. In general, this problem is $\textsf{NP}$-hard, even…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Lee Zheng Han , Umang Mathur

Coded caching is a recently proposed technique for dealing with large scale content distribution over the Internet. As in conventional caching, it leverages the presence of local caches at the end users. However, it considers coding in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-06 Li Tang , Aditya Ramamoorthy

We study a variant of Set Cover where each element of the universe has some demand that determines how many times the element needs to be covered. Moreover, we examine two generalizations of this problem when a set can be included multiple…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Niclas Boehmer , Robert Bredereck , Dušan Knop , Junjie Luo

Coded caching (CC) schemes exploit the cumulative cache memory of the users and simple linear coding to turn unicast traffic (individual file requests) into a multicast transmission. For the originally proposed $K$-user single-server/single…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Kagan Akcay , MohammadJavad Salehi , Giuseppe Caire

We propose a decentralized caching policy for wireless heterogeneous networks that makes content placement decisions based on pairwise interactions between cache nodes. We call our proposed scheme {\gamma}-exclusion cache placement (GEC),…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Derya Malak , Muriel Médard , Jeffrey G. Andrews

This paper investigates the problem of single-source multicasting over a communication network in the presence of restricted adversaries. When the adversary is constrained to operate only on a prescribed subset of edges, classical cut-set…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Christopher Hojny , Altan B. Kılıç , Sascha Kurz , Alberto Ravagnani

A polynomial Turing compression (PTC) for a parameterized problem $L$ is a polynomial time Turing machine that has access to an oracle for a problem $L'$ such that a polynomial in the input parameter bounds each query. Meanwhile, a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Weidong Luo

With the rapid explosion of data volume from mobile networks, edge caching has received significant attentions as an efficient approach to boost content delivery efficiency by bringing contents near users. In this article, cache-enabled…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Congshan Fan , Tiankui Zhang , Yuanwei Liu , Zhiming Zeng

Content caching is a widely studied technique aimed to reduce the network load imposed by data transmission during peak time while ensuring users' quality of experience. It has been shown that when there is a common link between caches and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Abdollah Ghaffari Sheshjavani , Ahmad Khonsari , Seyed Pooya Shariatpanahi , Masoumeh Moradian

The tradeoff between the user's memory size and the worst-case download time in the $(H,r,M,N)$ combination network is studied, where a central server communicates with $K$ users through $H$ immediate relays, and each user has local cache…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Kai Wan , Daniela Tuninetti , Mingyue Ji , Pablo Piantanida

We continue and extend previous work on the parameterized complexity analysis of the NP-hard Stable Roommates with Ties and Incomplete Lists problem, thereby strengthening earlier results both on the side of parameterized hardness as well…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Robert Bredereck , Klaus Heeger , Dušan Knop , Rolf Niedermeier

A centralized coded caching system, consisting of a server delivering N popular files, each of size F bits, to K users through an error-free shared link, is considered. It is assumed that each user is equipped with a local cache memory with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-15 Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri , Deniz Gunduz

This work identifies the fundamental limits of Multi-Access Coded Caching (MACC) where each user is connected to multiple caches in a manner that follows a generalized combinatorial topology. This topology stands out as it allows for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Federico Brunero , Petros Elia

In a reconfiguration version of an optimization problem $\mathcal{Q}$ the input is an instance of $\mathcal{Q}$ and two feasible solutions $S$ and $T$. The objective is to determine whether there exists a step-by-step transformation between…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Daniel Lokshtanov , Amer E. Mouawad , Fahad Panolan , Sebastian Siebertz