Group Complete-$\{s\}$ Pliable Index Coding

Abstract

This paper introduces a novel class of PICOD($t$) problems referred to as $g$-group complete-$S$ PICOD($t$) problems. It constructs a multi-stage achievability scheme to generate pliable index codes for group complete PICOD problems when $S = \{s\}$ is a singleton set. Using the maximum acyclic induced subgraph bound, lower bounds on the broadcast rate are derived for singleton $S$, which establishes the optimality of the achievability scheme for a range of values for $t$ and for any $g$ and $s$. For all other values, it is shown that the achievability scheme is optimal among the restricted class of broadcast codes.