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Asymmetry Hurts: Private Information Retrieval Under Asym...
Karim Banawan, Sennur Ulukus · 2018-01-10 · via cs.IT updates on arXiv.org

We consider the classical setting of private information retrieval (PIR) of a single message (file) out of $M$ messages from $N$ distributed databases under the new constraint of \emph{asymmetric traffic} from databases. In this problem, the \emph{ratios between the traffic} from the databases are constrained, i.e., the ratio of the length of the answer string that the user (retriever) receives from the $n$th database to the total length of all answer strings from all databases is constrained to be $τ_n$. This may happen if the user's access to the databases is restricted due database availability, channel quality to the databases, and other factors. For this problem, for fixed $M$, $N$, we develop a general upper bound $\bar{C}(\boldsymbolτ)$, which generalizes the converse proof of Sun-Jafar, where database symmetry was inherently used. Our converse bound is a piece-wise affine function in the traffic ratio vector $\boldsymbolτ=(τ_1, \cdots, τ_N)$. For the lower bound, we explicitly show the achievability of $\binom{M+N-1}{M}$ corner points. For the remaining traffic ratio vectors, we perform time-sharing between these corner points. The recursive structure of our achievability scheme is captured via a system of difference equations. The upper and lower bounds exactly match for $M=2$ and $M=3$ for any $N$ and any $\boldsymbolτ$. The results show strict loss of PIR capacity due to the asymmetric traffic constraints compared with the symmetric case of Sun-Jafar which implicitly uses $τ_n=\frac{1}{N}$ for all $n$.