Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION THEORY
Volume 64, Issue 4, Pages 2361-2370Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2017.2777490
Keywords
Capacity; private information retrieval; colluding databases; unresponsive databases
Funding
- NSF [CCF-1617504, CCF-1317351, CNS-1731384]
- ONR [N00014-16-1-2629]
- ARO [W911NF-16-1-0215]
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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 messages) while keeping the identity of the desired message index a secret from each individual database. The information theoretic capacity of PIR (equivalently, the reciprocal of minimum download cost) is the maximum number of bits of desired information that can be privately retrieved per bit of downloaded information. T-private PIR is a generalization of PIR to include the requirement that even if any T of the N databases collude, the identity of the retrieved message remains completely unknown to them. Robust PIR is another generalization that refers to the scenario where we have M >= N databases, out of which any M - N may fail to respond. For K messages and M >= N databases out of which at least some N must respond, we show that the capacity of T-private and Robust PIR is (1 + T/N + T-2/N-2 + ... + TK-1/NK-1)(-1). The result includes as special cases the capacity of PIR without robustness (M = N) or T-privacy constraints (T = 1).
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