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One of the paramount advantages of multi-level cache-enabled (MLCE) networks is pushing contents proximity to the network edge and proactively caching them at multiple transmitters (i.e., small base-stations (SBSs), unmanned aerial vehicles…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Mohammed S. Al-Abiad , Md. Zoheb Hassan , Md. Jahangir Hossain

Maddah-Ali and Niesen's original coded caching scheme for shared-link broadcast networks is now known to be optimal to within a factor two, and has been applied to other types of networks. For practical reasons, this paper considers that a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-06 Kai Wan , Mingyue Ji , Pablo Piantanida , Daniela Tuninetti

This paper studies the hierarchical clustering problem, where the goal is to produce a dendrogram that represents clusters at varying scales of a data set. We propose the ParChain framework for designing parallel hierarchical agglomerative…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Shangdi Yu , Yiqiu Wang , Yan Gu , Laxman Dhulipala , Julian Shun

Massively-parallel graph algorithms have received extensive attention over the past decade, with research focusing on three memory regimes: the superlinear regime, the near-linear regime, and the sublinear regime. The sublinear regime is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Orr Fischer , Adi Horowitz , Rotem Oshman

Consider a centralized caching network with a single server and $K$ users. The server has a database of $N$ files with each file being divided into $F$ packets ($F$ is known as subpacketization), and each user owns a local cache that can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Wentu Song , Kui Cai , Long Shi

The work establishes the exact performance limits of stochastic coded caching when users share a bounded number of cache states, and when the association between users and caches, is random. Under the premise that more balanced…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Adeel Malik , Berksan Serbetci , Emanuele Parrinello , Petros Elia

A general Continuum Approximation (CA) model is proposed for optimizing transit network designs (TND) in grid cities under spatially heterogeneous demand. While conventional studies often assume rigid geometric line configurations (e.g.,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Wenbo Fan , Haoyang Mao , Li Zhen , Weihua Gu

This work identifies the fundamental limits of cache-aided coded multicasting in the presence of the well-known `worst-user' bottleneck. This stems from the presence of receiving users with uneven channel capacities, which often forces the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Eleftherios Lampiris , Jingjing Zhang , Osvaldo Simeone , Petros Elia

The web serving protocol stack is constantly changing and evolving to tackle technological shifts in networking infrastructure and website complexity. As a result of this evolution, the web serving stack includes a plethora of protocols and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Usama Naseer , Theophilus Benson

Selecting hyperparameters for unsupervised learning problems is challenging in general due to the lack of ground truth for validation. Despite the prevalence of this issue in statistics and machine learning, especially in clustering…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-04 Xinjie Fan , Yuguang Yue , Purnamrita Sarkar , Y. X. Rachel Wang

This paper characterizes the performance of a generic $K$-tier cache-aided heterogeneous network (CHN), in which the base stations (BSs) across tiers differ in terms of their spatial densities, transmission powers, pathloss exponents,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-25 Mohamed A. Abd-Elmagid , Ozgur Ercetin , Tamer ElBatt

We propose a unified coded framework for distributed computing with straggling servers, by introducing a tradeoff between "latency of computation" and "load of communication" for some linear computation tasks. We show that the coded scheme…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Songze Li , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , A. Salman Avestimehr

We consider a basic cache network, in which a single server is connected to multiple users via a shared bottleneck link. The server has a database of files (content). Each user has an isolated memory that can be used to cache content in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Qian Yu , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , A. Salman Avestimehr

Heterogeneous wireless networks (HetNets) provide a means to increase network capacity by introducing small cells and adopting a layered architecture. HetNets allocate resources flexibly through time sharing and cell range…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-08-11 Stephen V. Hanly , Chunshan Liu , Phil Whiting

We consider the canonical {\em shared link network} formed by a source node, hosting a library of $m$ information messages (files), connected via a noiseless common link to $n$ destination nodes (users), each with a cache of size M files.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-12 Mingyue Ji , Antonia M. Tulino , Jaime Llorca , Giuseppe Caire

Caching systems have long been crucial for improving the performance of a wide variety of network and web based online applications. In such systems, end-to-end application performance heavily depends on the fraction of objects transferred…

Performance · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Nitish K. Panigrahy , Philippe Nain , Giovanni Neglia , Don Towsley

A decision problem is called parameterized if its input is a pair of strings. One of these strings is referred to as a parameter. The problem: given a propositional logic program P and a non-negative integer k, decide whether P has a stable…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Zbigniew Lonc , Miroslaw Truszczynski

A new scheme for the problem of centralized coded caching with non-uniform demands is proposed. The distinguishing feature of the proposed placement strategy is that it admits equal sub-packetization for all files while allowing the users…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Saeid Sahraei , Pierre Quinton , Michael Gastpar

Recently, Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) including the ResNet-20 architecture have been privately evaluated on encrypted, low-resolution data with the Residue-Number-System Cheon-Kim-Kim-Song (RNS-CKKS) homomorphic encryption…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Vivian Maloney , Richard F. Obrecht , Vikram Saraph , Prathibha Rama , Kate Tallaksen

Thresholding--the pruning of nodes or edges based on their properties or weights--is an essential preprocessing tool for extracting interpretable structure from complex network data, yet existing methods face several key limitations.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Adam Schroeder , Russell Funk , Jingyi Guan , Taylor Okonek , Lori Ziegelmeier