A Low-Complexity Framework for Multi-access Coded Caching Systems with Arbitrary User-cache Access Topology
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| author | Yang, Ting Wan, Kai Cheng, Minquan Yi, Xinping Qiu, Robert Caiming Caire, Giuseppe |
| author_facet | Yang, Ting Wan, Kai Cheng, Minquan Yi, Xinping Qiu, Robert Caiming Caire, Giuseppe |
| contents | This paper studies the multi-access coded caching (MACC) problem with arbitrary user-cache access topology, which extends existing MACC models that rely on highly structured and combinatorially designed topologies. We consider a MACC system consisting of a single server, $Λ$ cache-nodes, and $K$ user-nodes. The server stores $N$ equal-size files, each cache-node has a storage capacity of $M$ files, and each user-node $k\in[K]$ can access an arbitrary subset of cache-nodes $\mathcal{A}_k\subseteq[Λ]$ and retrieve the cached content stored in cache-nodes $\mathcal{A}_k$. The objective is to design a universal framework for the MACC delivery problem. Decoding conflicts among the requested packets are captured by a conflict graph, and the design of the delivery is reduced to a graph coloring problem, where achieving a lower transmission load corresponds to coloring the graph using fewer colors. Under this formulation, the classical DSatur algorithm achieves a transmission load close to the index-coding (IC) converse bound, thereby providing a practical benchmark. However, its computational complexity becomes prohibitive for large-scale graphs. To overcome this limitation, we develop a learning-driven approach using graph neural networks (GNNs) that efficiently constructs coded multicast transmissions with performance close to the theoretical bounds and generalizes across different user-cache access topologies and numbers of users. In addition, we extend the IC converse bound to MACC systems with arbitrary access topology and propose a low-complexity greedy approximation that closely matches the IC converse bound. Numerical results demonstrate that the proposed approach achieves performance close to the DSatur algorithm and the IC converse bound, while significantly reducing computational complexity, making it well-suited for large-scale MACC systems. |
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| spellingShingle | A Low-Complexity Framework for Multi-access Coded Caching Systems with Arbitrary User-cache Access Topology Yang, Ting Wan, Kai Cheng, Minquan Yi, Xinping Qiu, Robert Caiming Caire, Giuseppe Information Theory This paper studies the multi-access coded caching (MACC) problem with arbitrary user-cache access topology, which extends existing MACC models that rely on highly structured and combinatorially designed topologies. We consider a MACC system consisting of a single server, $Λ$ cache-nodes, and $K$ user-nodes. The server stores $N$ equal-size files, each cache-node has a storage capacity of $M$ files, and each user-node $k\in[K]$ can access an arbitrary subset of cache-nodes $\mathcal{A}_k\subseteq[Λ]$ and retrieve the cached content stored in cache-nodes $\mathcal{A}_k$. The objective is to design a universal framework for the MACC delivery problem. Decoding conflicts among the requested packets are captured by a conflict graph, and the design of the delivery is reduced to a graph coloring problem, where achieving a lower transmission load corresponds to coloring the graph using fewer colors. Under this formulation, the classical DSatur algorithm achieves a transmission load close to the index-coding (IC) converse bound, thereby providing a practical benchmark. However, its computational complexity becomes prohibitive for large-scale graphs. To overcome this limitation, we develop a learning-driven approach using graph neural networks (GNNs) that efficiently constructs coded multicast transmissions with performance close to the theoretical bounds and generalizes across different user-cache access topologies and numbers of users. In addition, we extend the IC converse bound to MACC systems with arbitrary access topology and propose a low-complexity greedy approximation that closely matches the IC converse bound. Numerical results demonstrate that the proposed approach achieves performance close to the DSatur algorithm and the IC converse bound, while significantly reducing computational complexity, making it well-suited for large-scale MACC systems. |
| title | A Low-Complexity Framework for Multi-access Coded Caching Systems with Arbitrary User-cache Access Topology |
| topic | Information Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.10175 |