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    A New Converse Bound for Coded Caching

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    An information-theoretic lower bound is developed for the caching system studied by Maddah-Ali and Niesen. By comparing the proposed lower bound with the decentralized coded caching scheme of Maddah-Ali and Niesen, the optimal memory--rate tradeoff is characterized to within a multiplicative gap of 4.7 for the worst case, improving the previous analytical gap of 12. Furthermore, for the case when users' requests follow the uniform distribution, the multiplicative gap is tightened to 4.7, improving the previous analytical gap of 72. As an independent result of interest, for the single-user average case in which the user requests multiple files, it is proved that caching the most requested files is optimal

    The Optimal Memory-Rate Trade-off for the Non-uniform Centralized Caching Problem with Two Files under Uncoded Placement

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    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 to allocate more cache to the files which are more popular. This creates natural broadcasting opportunities in the delivery phase which are simultaneously helpful for the users who have requested files of different popularities. For the case of two files, we propose a new delivery strategy based on interference alignment which enables each user to decode his desired file following a two-layer peeling decoder. Furthermore, we extend the existing converse bounds for uniform demands under uncoded placement to the nonuniform case. To accomplish this, we construct N!N! auxiliary users, corresponding to all permutations of the NN files, each caching carefully selected sub-packets of the files. Each auxiliary user provides a different converse bound. The overall converse bound is the maximum of all these N!N! bounds. We prove that our achievable delivery rate for the case of two files meets this converse, thereby establishing the optimal expected memory-rate trade-off for the case of KK users and two files with arbitrary popularities under uncoded placement

    Generalized Degrees of Freedom of the Symmetric Cache-Aided MISO Broadcast Channel with Partial CSIT

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    We consider the cache-aided MISO broadcast channel (BC) in which a multi-antenna transmitter serves KK single-antenna receivers, each equipped with a cache memory. The transmitter has access to partial knowledge of the channel state information. For a symmetric setting, in terms of channel strength levels, partial channel knowledge levels and cache sizes, we characterize the generalized degrees of freedom (GDoF) up to a constant multiplicative factor. The achievability scheme exploits the interplay between spatial multiplexing gains and coded-multicasting gain. On the other hand, a cut-set-based argument in conjunction with a GDoF outer bound for a parallel MISO BC under channel uncertainty are used for the converse. We further show that the characterized order-optimal GDoF is also attained in a decentralized setting, where no coordination is required for content placement in the caches.Comment: first revisio

    Caching and Coded Multicasting: Multiple Groupcast Index Coding

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    The capacity of caching networks has received considerable attention in the past few years. A particularly studied setting is the case of a single server (e.g., a base station) and multiple users, each of which caches segments of files in a finite library. Each user requests one (whole) file in the library and the server sends a common coded multicast message to satisfy all users at once. The problem consists of finding the smallest possible codeword length to satisfy such requests. In this paper we consider the generalization to the case where each user places L≥1L \geq 1 requests. The obvious naive scheme consists of applying LL times the order-optimal scheme for a single request, obtaining a linear in LL scaling of the multicast codeword length. We propose a new achievable scheme based on multiple groupcast index coding that achieves a significant gain over the naive scheme. Furthermore, through an information theoretic converse we find that the proposed scheme is approximately optimal within a constant factor of (at most) 1818.Comment: 5 pages, 1 figure, to appear in GlobalSIP14, Dec. 201

    Fundamental Limits of Caching in Wireless D2D Networks

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    We consider a wireless Device-to-Device (D2D) network where communication is restricted to be single-hop. Users make arbitrary requests from a finite library of files and have pre-cached information on their devices, subject to a per-node storage capacity constraint. A similar problem has already been considered in an ``infrastructure'' setting, where all users receive a common multicast (coded) message from a single omniscient server (e.g., a base station having all the files in the library) through a shared bottleneck link. In this work, we consider a D2D ``infrastructure-less'' version of the problem. We propose a caching strategy based on deterministic assignment of subpackets of the library files, and a coded delivery strategy where the users send linearly coded messages to each other in order to collectively satisfy their demands. We also consider a random caching strategy, which is more suitable to a fully decentralized implementation. Under certain conditions, both approaches can achieve the information theoretic outer bound within a constant multiplicative factor. In our previous work, we showed that a caching D2D wireless network with one-hop communication, random caching, and uncoded delivery, achieves the same throughput scaling law of the infrastructure-based coded multicasting scheme, in the regime of large number of users and files in the library. This shows that the spatial reuse gain of the D2D network is order-equivalent to the coded multicasting gain of single base station transmission. It is therefore natural to ask whether these two gains are cumulative, i.e.,if a D2D network with both local communication (spatial reuse) and coded multicasting can provide an improved scaling law. Somewhat counterintuitively, we show that these gains do not cumulate (in terms of throughput scaling law).Comment: 45 pages, 5 figures, Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, This is the extended version of the conference (ITW) paper arXiv:1304.585
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