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Coded caching is a promising technique to create coded multicast opportunities for cache-aided networks. By splitting each file into $F$ equal packets (i.e., the subpacketization level $F$) and letting each user cache a set of packets, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Minquan Cheng , Yifei Huang , Youlong Wu , Jinyan Wang

Caching at the wireless edge can be used to keep up with the increasing demand for high-definition wireless video streaming. By prefetching popular content into memory at wireless access points or end-user devices, requests can be served…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Parisa Hassanzadeh , Antonia M. Tulino , Jaime Llorca , Elza Erkip

Stream media content caching is a key enabling technology to promote the value chain of future urban vehicular networks. Nevertheless, the high mobility of vehicles, intermittency of information transmissions, high dynamics of user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Biqian Feng , Chenyuan Feng , Daquan Feng , Yongpeng Wu , Xiang-Gen Xia

Cellular data traffic almost doubles every year, greatly straining network capacity. The main driver for this development is wireless video. Traditional methods for capacity increase (like using more spectrum and increasing base station…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-23 Andreas F. Molisch , Giuseppe Caire , David Ott , Jeffrey R. Foerster , Dilip Bethanabhotla , Mingyue Ji

Network latency in mobile software has a large impact on user experience, with potentially severe economic consequences. Prefetching and caching have been shown effective in reducing the latencies in browser-based systems. However, those…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Yixue Zhao , Paul Wat , Marcelo Schmitt Laser , Nenad Medvidovic

Computation task service delivery in a computing-enabled and caching-aided multi-user mobile edge computing (MEC) system is studied in this paper, where a MEC server can deliver the input or output datas of tasks to mobile devices over a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Yaping Sun , Zhiyong Chen , Meixia Tao , Hui Liu

While next-generation wireless communication networks intend leveraging edge caching for enhanced spectral efficiency, quality of service, end-to-end latency, content sharing cost, etc., several aspects of it are yet to be addressed to make…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Md Ferdous Pervej , Le Thanh Tan , Rose Qingyang Hu

We study downlink beamforming in a single-cell network with a multi-antenna base station (BS) serving cache-enabled users. For a given common rate of the files in the system, we first formulate the minimum transmit power with beamforming at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-20 Junlin Zhao , Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri , Deniz Gündüz

Coded caching can be applied in wireless multi-antenna communications by multicast beamforming coded data chunks to carefully selected user groups and using the existing file fragments in user caches to decode the desired files at each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-14 MohammadJavad Salehi , Antti Tölli , Seyed Pooya Shariatpanahi , Jarkko Kaleva

Multimedia content streaming from Internet-based sources emerges as one of the most high demanded services by wireless users. In order to alleviate excessive traffic due to multimedia content transmission, many architectures (e.g., small…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Ioannis Avgouleas , Nikolaos Pappas , Vangelis Angelakis

Replicating or caching popular content in memories distributed across the network is a technique to reduce peak network loads. Conventionally, the performance gain of caching was thought to result from making part of the requested data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-13 Ajaykrishnan N. , Navya S. Prem , Vinod M. Prabhakaran , Rahul Vaze

Caching at mobile devices can facilitate device-to-device (D2D) communications, which may significantly improve spectrum efficiency and alleviate the heavy burden on backhaul links. However, most previous works ignored user mobility, thus…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Rui Wang , Jun Zhang , S. H. Song , Khaled B. Letaief

Coded caching is an emerging technique to reduce the data transmission load during the peak-traffic times. In such a scheme, each file in the data center or library is usually divided into a number of packets to pursue a low broadcasting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Xianzhang Wu , Minquan Cheng , Congduan Li , Li Chen

Video on-demand streaming from Internet-based servers is becoming one of the most important services offered by wireless networks today. In order to improve the area spectral efficiency of video transmission in cellular systems, small cells…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Karthikeyan Shanmugam , Negin Golrezaei , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Andreas F. Molisch , Giuseppe Caire

In this paper we determine the delivery time for a multi-server coded caching problem when the cache size of each user is small. We propose an achievable scheme based on coded cache content placement, and employ zero-forcing techniques at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-22 Seyed Pooya Shariatpanahi , Babak Hossein Khalaj

Content delivery networks store information distributed across multiple servers, so as to balance the load and avoid unrecoverable losses in case of node or disk failures. Coded caching has been shown to be a useful technique which can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Tianqiong Luo , Vaneet Aggarwal , Borja Peleato

Mobile cellular networks are becoming increasingly complex to manage while classical deployment/optimization techniques and current solutions (i.e., cell densification, acquiring more spectrum, etc.) are cost-ineffective and thus seen as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-22 Ejder Baştuğ , Mehdi Bennis , Engin Zeydan , Manhal Abdel Kader , Alper Karatepe , Ahmet Salih Er , Mérouane Debbah

In this work, we study the trade-off between the cache capacity and the user delay for a cooperative Small Base Station (SBS) coded caching system with mobile users. First, a delay-aware coded caching policy, which takes into account the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Emre Ozfatura , Thomas Rarris , Deniz Gunduz , Ozgur Ercetin

Due to the explosive growth in multimedia traffic, the scalability of video-on-demand (VoD) services becomes increasingly important. By exploiting the potential cache ability at the client side, the performance of VoD multicast delivery can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-11 Hao Feng , Zhiyong Chen , Hui Liu

Caching networks are designed to reduce traffic load at backhaul links, by serving demands from edge-nodes. In the past decades, many studies have been done to address the caching problem. However, in practice, finding an optimal caching…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Elahe Rezaei , Hafez Eslami Manoochehri , Babak Hossein Khalaj