An Improved Secretive Coded Caching Scheme exploiting Common Demands

Abstract

Coded caching schemes on broadcast networks with user caches help to offload traffic from peak times to off-peak times by prefetching information from the server to the users during off-peak times and thus serving the users more efficiently during peak times using coded transmissions. We consider the problem of secretive coded caching which was proposed recently, in which a user should not be able to decode any information about any file that the user has not demanded. We propose a new secretive coded caching scheme which has a lower average rate compared to the existing state-of-the-art scheme, for the same memory available at the users. The proposed scheme is based on exploiting the presence of common demands between multiple users.

Added an example to illustrate the scheme efficiently