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The surge in popularity of short-form video content, particularly through platforms like TikTok and Instagram, has led to an exponential increase in data traffic, presenting significant challenges in network resource management. Traditional…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Betty Searcy , Zurh Farus , Bronny Bush , Kevin Muhammad , Zubair Clinton

We consider a mobile user accessing contents in a dynamic environment, where new contents are generated over time (by the user's contacts), and remain relevant to the user for random lifetimes. The user, equipped with a finite-capacity…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-12-28 Samuel O. Somuyiwa , Andras Gyorgy , Deniz Gunduz

Joint caching and recommendation has been recently proposed as a new paradigm for increasing the efficiency of mobile edge caching. Early findings demonstrate significant gains for the network performance. However, previous works evaluated…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Savvas Kastanakis , Pavlos Sermpezis , Vasileios Kotronis , Daniel Menasché , Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos

Evidence indicates that downloading on-demand videos accounts for a dramatic increase in data traffic over cellular networks. Caching popular videos in the storage of small-cell base stations (SBS), namely, small-cell caching, is an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Jun Li , He Chen , Youjia Chen , Zihuai Lin , Branka Vucetic , Lajos Hanzo

Coded caching (CC) exploits cumulative cache memory at user devices and coding to transform unicast traffic into multicast transmissions. While information theoretic results show significant gains over uncoded caching for various network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Kagan Akcay , MohammadJavad Salehi , Giuseppe Caire

Distributed applications require novel solutions to tackle problems that arise due to the scarcity of resources such as bandwidth, memory and processing power. One of these challenges is seen in distributed data management. The challenge is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Newton Masinde , Moritz Kanzler , Kalman Graffi

Short video platforms like TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts have gained immense popularity in the last few years and are responsible for a large and growing fraction of Internet traffic. We identify two unique opportunities for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Maleeha Masood , Shreya Kannan , Om Chabra , Deepak Vasisht , Indranil Gupta

This letter proposes two novel proactive cooperative caching approaches using deep learning (DL) to predict users' content demand in a mobile edge caching network. In the first approach, a (central) content server takes responsibilities to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-12-14 Yuris Mulya Saputra , Dinh Thai Hoang , Diep N. Nguyen , Eryk Dutkiewicz , Dusit Niyato , Dong In Kim

Backhaul traffic congestion caused by the video traffic of a few popular files can be alleviated by storing the to-be-requested content at various levels in wireless video caching networks. Typically, content service providers (CSPs) own…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Md Ferdous Pervej , Andreas F. Molisch

Edge caching can significantly improve the 5G networks' performance both in terms of delay and backhaul traffic. We use a reinforcement learning-based (RL-based) caching technique that can adapt to time-location-dependent popularity…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Rasoul Nikbakht , Sarang Kahvazadeh , Josep Mangues-Bafalluy

As wireless video transmission is the fastest-growing form of data traffic, methods for spectrally efficient video on-demand wireless streaming are essential to service providers and users alike. A key property of video on-demand is the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire , Andreas F. Molisch

While edge video caching has great potential to decrease the core network traffic as well as the users' experienced latency, it is often challenging to exploit the caches in current client-driven video streaming solutions due to two key…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Suzan Bayhan , Setareh Maghsudi , Anatolij Zubow

Caching has recently attracted a lot of attention in the wireless communications community, as a means to cope with the increasing number of users consuming web content from mobile devices. Caching offers an opportunity for a win-win…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Theodoros Giannakas , Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos , Pavlos Sermpezis

We consider joint caching, routing, and channel assignment for video delivery over coordinated small-cell cellular systems of the future Internet. We formulate the problem of maximizing the throughput of the system as a linear program in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-05-31 Abdallah Khreishah , Jacob Chakareski , Ammar Gharaibeh

Coded caching is a recently proposed technique for dealing with large scale content distribution over the Internet. As in conventional caching, it leverages the presence of local caches at the end users. However, it considers coding in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-06 Li Tang , Aditya Ramamoorthy

Video moment search, the process of finding relevant moments in a video corpus to match a user's query, is crucial for various applications. Existing solutions, however, often assume a single perfect matching moment, struggle with…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Chongzhi Zhang , Xizhou Zhu , Aixin Sun

Content caching at the edge nodes is a promising technique to reduce the data traffic in next-generation wireless networks. Inspired by the success of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) in solving complicated control problems, this work…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-22 Chen Zhong , M. Cenk Gursoy , Senem Velipasalar

Performance and reliability of content access in mobile networks is conditioned by the number and location of content replicas deployed at the network nodes. Location theory has been the traditional, centralized approach to study content…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-02-16 Chi-Anh La , Pietro Michiardi , Claudio Casetti , Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini , Marco Fiore

Mobile crowdsensing (MCS) networks enable large-scale data collection by leveraging the ubiquity of mobile devices. However, frequent sensing and data transmission can lead to significant resource consumption. To mitigate this issue, edge…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Kexin Shi , Yaru Fu , Yongna Guo , Fu Lee Wang , Yan Zhang

This paper comprehensively studies a content-centric mobile network based on a preference learning framework, where each mobile user is equipped with a finite-size cache. We consider a practical scenario where each user requests a content…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Adeel Malik , Joongheon Kim , Kwang Soon Kim , Won-Yong Shin