On the Storage Cost of Private Information Retrieval
On the Storage Cost of Private Information Retrieval
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DOI：
10.1109/isit44484.2020.9174244
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2019-10
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C. Tian
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我们认为，在私人信息检索系统的存储成本和下载成本之间的根本权衡，没有任何明确的结构限制的存储代码，如最大距离可分离的代码或未编码的存储。提供了两个新的外边界，这具有以下含义。当消息在数据库之间没有任何冗余的情况下存储时，最佳PIR策略是下载所有消息;另一方面，对于PIR容量实现代码，每个数据库可以从存储所有消息中减少存储成本，平均不超过一个消息。然后，我们专注于两个消息的两个数据库的情况下，并表明，可以通过一种新的伪消息技术得到一个更强的外边界。
We consider the fundamental tradeoff between the storage cost and the download cost in private information retrieval systems, without any explicit structural restrictions on the storage codes, such as maximum distance separable codes or uncoded storage. Two novel outer bounds are provided, which have the following implications. When the messages are stored without any redundancy across the databases, the optimal PIR strategy is to download all the messages; on the other hand, for PIR capacity-achieving codes, each database can reduce the storage cost, from storing all the messages, by no more than one message on average. We then focus on the two-message two-database case, and show that a stronger outer bound can be derived through a novel pseudo-message technique.