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Coded caching (CC) exploits cumulative cache memory at user devices and coding to transform unicast traffic into multicast transmissions. While information theoretic results show significant gains over uncoded caching for various network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Kagan Akcay , MohammadJavad Salehi , Giuseppe Caire

We continue the recent line of research studying information dissemination problems in adversarial dynamic radio networks. We give two generic algorithms which allow to transform generalized version of single-message broadcast algorithms…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Mohamad Ahmadi , Fabian Kuhn

We give an algorithm for finding network encoding and decoding equations for error-free multicasting networks with multiple sources and sinks. The algorithm given is efficient (polynomial complexity) and works on any kind of network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Angela I. Barbero Diez , Oyvind Ytrehus

We deal with algorithmic techniques for minimal cost input-connectivity while maintaining controllability of linear systems. The input matrix is assumed to be constrained in the sense that the set of states that each input (if present) can…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-27 Priyanka Dey , Niranjan Balachandran , Debasish Chatterjee

Caching and multicasting at base stations are two promising approaches to support massive content delivery over wireless networks. However, existing analysis and designs do not fully explore and exploit the potential advantages of the two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-19 Ying Cui , Dongdong Jiang , Yueping Wu

A fundamental challenge in wireless multicast has been how to simultaneously achieve high-throughput and low-delay for reliably serving a large number of users. In this paper, we show how to harness substantial throughput and delay gains by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Fei Wu , Yin Sun , Lu Chen , Jackie Xu , Kannan Srinivasan , Ness B. Shroff

This paper considers the multi-group multicast beamforming optimization problem, for which the optimal solution has been unknown due to the non-convex and NP-hard nature of the problem. By utilizing the successive convex approximation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-13 Min Dong , Qiqi Wang

Random linear network coding (RLNC) in theory achieves the max-flow capacity of multicast networks, at the cost of high decoding complexity. To improve the performance-complexity tradeoff, we consider the design of sparse network codes. A…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-20 Ye Li , Wai-Yip Chan , Steven D. Blostein

Solving optimization problems in multi-agent systems (MAS) involves information exchange between agents. These solutions must be robust to delays and errors that arise from an unreliable wireless network which typically connects the MAS. In…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-12-19 Arunselvan Ramaswamy , Adrian Redder , Daniel E. Quevedo

In this paper, we study the problem of multirate packet delivery in heterogeneous packet erasure broadcast networks. The technical challenge is to enable users receive packets at different rates, as dictated by the quality of their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-09 Mohammad A. Zarrabian , Foroogh S. Tabataba , Sina Molavipour , Parastoo Sadeghi

We consider distributed and dynamic caching of coded content at small base stations (SBSs) in an area served by a macro base station (MBS). Specifically, content is encoded using a maximum distance separable code and cached according to a…

For discrete memoryless multiple-access channels, we propose a general definition of variable length codes with a measure of the transmission rates at the receiver side. This gives a receiver perspective on the multiple-access channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-28 Stephane Musy

Coded distributed computing (CDC) is a new technique proposed with the purpose of decreasing the intense data exchange required for parallelizing distributed computing systems. Under the famous MapReduce paradigm, this coded approach has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Federico Brunero , Petros Elia

The main challenges in designing downlink coordinated multicast beamforming in massive multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) cellular networks are the complex computational solutions and significant fronthaul overhead for centralized…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-20 Shiqi Yin , Min Dong

We consider the multi-broadcast problem in arbitrary connected radio networks consisting of $n$ nodes. There are $k$ designated source nodes for some fixed $k \in \{1,\ldots,n\}$, and each source node has a distinct piece of information…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Colin Krisko , Avery Miller

As the demand of mobile devices (MDs) for data services is explosively increasing, traditional offloading in the cellular networks is facing the contradiction of energy efficiency and quality of service. Device-to-device (D2D) communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Zicheng Xia , Jiawei Yan , Yuan Liu

Coded caching is a technique that leverages locally cached contents at the end users to reduce the network's peak-time communication load. Coded caching has been shown to achieve significant performance gains with a centralized placement…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Yinbin Ma , Daniela Tuninetti

Multi-agent planning in stochastic environments can be framed formally as a decentralized Markov decision problem. Many real-life distributed problems that arise in manufacturing, multi-robot coordination and information gathering scenarios…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-11-02 Claudia V. Goldman , Shlomo Zilberstein

Cooperation between the nodes of wireless multihop networks can increase communication reliability, reduce energy consumption, and decrease latency. The possible improvements are even greater when nodes perform mutual information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-08-27 Stark C. Draper , Lingjia Liu , Andreas F. Molisch , Jonathan S. Yedidia

We consider multi-hop wireless networks serving multiple flows in which only packets that meet hard end-to-end deadline constraints are useful, i.e., if a packet is not delivered to its destination node by its deadline, it is dropped from…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Rahul Singh , P. R. Kumar