Automated and smart meters are devices that are able to monitor the energy consumption of
electricity consumers in near real-time. They are considered key technological enablers of …

With the rapid development of cloud computing, more and more enterprises/individuals are
starting to outsource local data to the cloud servers. However, under open networks and not …

In the private information retrieval (PIR) problem, a user wishes to retrieve, as efficiently as
possible, one out of K messages from N non-communicating databases (each holds all K …

We consider the problem of private information retrieval (PIR) over a distributed storage
system. The storage system consists of N non-colluding databases, each storing an MDS …

Private information retrieval (PIR) is the problem of retrieving as efficiently as possible, one
out of K messages from N non-communicating replicated databases (each holds all K …

The problem of providing privacy, in the private information retrieval (PIR) sense, to users
requesting data from a distributed storage system (DSS), is considered. The DSS is coded …

Abstract The Internet of Things (IoT) envisions a world covered with billions of smart,
interacting things capable of offering all sorts of services to near and remote entities. The …

Private information retrieval (PIR) is the problem of retrieving, as efficiently as possible, one
out of K messages from N non-communicating replicated databases (each holds all K …

We consider the problem of single-round private information retrieval (PIR) from N replicated
databases. We consider the case when B databases are outdated (unsynchronized), or …

We study the problem of Private Information Retrieval (PIR) in the presence of prior side
information. The problem setup includes a database of K independent messages possibly …