Private Information Retrieval When Private Noisy Side Information is Available
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Consider Private Information Retrieval (PIR), where a client wants to retrieve one file out of K files that are replicated in N different servers and the client selection must remain private when up to T servers may collude. Additionally, suppose that the client has noisy side information about each of the K files, and the side information about a specific file is obtained by passing this file through one of D possible discrete memoryless test channels, where D≤K. While the statistics of the test channels are known by the client and by all the servers, the specific mapping