Content-type coding

TL;DR

This paper explores the potential benefits of designing network and channel codes specifically tailored to content-type requests, which are prevalent in many modern applications like search engines and newsfeeds.

Contribution

It introduces three content-type formulations and demonstrates that tailored coding can yield significant advantages in certain scenarios.

Findings

Content-type coding can improve efficiency in network communication.

Tailored coding schemes show benefits in specific content-type scenarios.

The paper provides practical examples illustrating these advantages.

Abstract

This paper is motivated by the observation that, in many cases, we do not need to serve specific messages, but rather, any message within a content-type. Content-type traffic pervades a host of applications today, ranging from search engines and recommender networks to newsfeeds and advertisement networks. The paper asks a novel question: if there are benefits in designing network and channel codes specifically tailored to content-type requests. It provides three examples of content-type formulations to argue that, indeed in some cases we can have significant such benefits.