The Distributed Multi-User Point Function

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Autores principales: Khalesi, Ali, Akhbari, Bahareh
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author Khalesi, Ali
Akhbari, Bahareh
author_facet Khalesi, Ali
Akhbari, Bahareh
contents In this paper, we study the problem of information-theoretic distributed multi-user point function, involving a trusted master node, $N \in \mathbb{N}$ server nodes, and $K\in \mathbb{N}$ users, where each user has access to the contents of a subset of the storages of server nodes. Each user is associated with an independent point function $f_{X_k,Z_k}: \{1,2,\hdots,T\} \rightarrow{GF(q^{m R_k})},T,mR_k \in \mathbb{N}$. Using these point functions, the trusted master node encodes and places functional shares $G_1,G_2,\hdots,G_N \in GF(q^{M}), M \in \mathbb{N}$ in the storage nodes such that each user can correctly recover its point function result from the response transmitted to itself and gains no information about the point functions of any other user, even with knowledge of all responses transmitted from its connected servers. For the first time, we propose a multi-user scheme that satisfies the correctness and information-theoretic privacy constraints, ensuring recovery for all point functions. We also characterize the inner and outer bounds on the capacity -- the maximum achievable rate defined as the size of the range of each point function $mR_k$ relative to the storage size of the servers $M$ -- of the distributed multi-user point function scheme by presenting a novel converse argument.
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spellingShingle The Distributed Multi-User Point Function
Khalesi, Ali
Akhbari, Bahareh
Information Theory
Cryptography and Security
In this paper, we study the problem of information-theoretic distributed multi-user point function, involving a trusted master node, $N \in \mathbb{N}$ server nodes, and $K\in \mathbb{N}$ users, where each user has access to the contents of a subset of the storages of server nodes. Each user is associated with an independent point function $f_{X_k,Z_k}: \{1,2,\hdots,T\} \rightarrow{GF(q^{m R_k})},T,mR_k \in \mathbb{N}$. Using these point functions, the trusted master node encodes and places functional shares $G_1,G_2,\hdots,G_N \in GF(q^{M}), M \in \mathbb{N}$ in the storage nodes such that each user can correctly recover its point function result from the response transmitted to itself and gains no information about the point functions of any other user, even with knowledge of all responses transmitted from its connected servers. For the first time, we propose a multi-user scheme that satisfies the correctness and information-theoretic privacy constraints, ensuring recovery for all point functions. We also characterize the inner and outer bounds on the capacity -- the maximum achievable rate defined as the size of the range of each point function $mR_k$ relative to the storage size of the servers $M$ -- of the distributed multi-user point function scheme by presenting a novel converse argument.
title The Distributed Multi-User Point Function
topic Information Theory
Cryptography and Security
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.10251