{"title":"On optimal placement delivery arrays","authors":"Lijun Ji , Ruizhong Wei , Liying Yu","doi":"10.1016/j.disc.2025.114680","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A placement delivery array (PDA) is a combinatorial configuration derived from coded caching schemes which are used to reduce computer network traffics during peak usage periods. In this paper, we introduce the concept of optimal PDAs (OPDAs) as fundamental combinatorial objects and explore their key combinatorial properties. Furthermore, we present several new infinite families of OPDAs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50572,"journal":{"name":"Discrete Mathematics","volume":"349 1","pages":"Article 114680"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7000,"publicationDate":"2025-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Discrete Mathematics","FirstCategoryId":"100","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012365X25002882","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"MATHEMATICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A placement delivery array (PDA) is a combinatorial configuration derived from coded caching schemes which are used to reduce computer network traffics during peak usage periods. In this paper, we introduce the concept of optimal PDAs (OPDAs) as fundamental combinatorial objects and explore their key combinatorial properties. Furthermore, we present several new infinite families of OPDAs.
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Discrete Mathematics provides a common forum for significant research in many areas of discrete mathematics and combinatorics. Among the fields covered by Discrete Mathematics are graph and hypergraph theory, enumeration, coding theory, block designs, the combinatorics of partially ordered sets, extremal set theory, matroid theory, algebraic combinatorics, discrete geometry, matrices, and discrete probability theory.
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