Part 1: Foundations of Distributed Computing

Chapter 4: Interference Alignment for Distributed Systems

Intermediate~200 min

Learning Objectives

  • State interference alignment in finite fields and recognize why the discrete setting is sharper than the Gaussian one
  • Compute the degrees-of-freedom (DoF) gain of finite-field IA on small interference channels
  • Apply IA to the delivery phase of coded caching, recovering the Maddah-Ali / Niesen rate
  • Recognize how IA structures the queries in private information retrieval (Chapter 13 preview)
  • Apply IA to distributed matrix multiplication and connect to the polynomial codes of Chapter 5

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