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We consider load balancing problem in a cache network consisting of storage-enabled servers forming a distributed content delivery scenario. Previously proposed load balancing solutions cannot perfectly balance out requests among servers,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Mahdi Jafari Siavoshani , Farzad Parvaresh , Ali Pourmiri , Seyed Pooya Shariatpanahi

Increasing storage sizes and WiFi/Bluetooth capabilities of mobile devices have made them a good platform for opportunistic content sharing. In this work we propose a network model to study this in a setting with two characteristics: 1.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-09-25 Tiance Wang , Pan Hui , Sanjeev Kulkarni , Paul Cuff

We investigate the problem of coded caching for nonuniform demands when the structured clique cover algorithm proposed by Maddah-Ali and Niesen for decentralized caching is used for delivery. We apply this algorithm to all user demands…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Seyed Ali Saberali , Lutz Lampe , Ian Blake

Caching has been successfully applied in wired networks, in the context of Content Distribution Networks (CDNs), and is quickly gaining ground for wireless systems. Storing popular content at the edge of the network (e.g. at small cells) is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-18 Theodoros Giannakas , Pavlos Sermpezis , Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos

In this article we explore one of the most promising technologies for 5G wireless networks using an underlay small cell network, namely proactive caching. Using the increase in storage technologies and through studying the users behavior,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-06-01 Salah Eddine Hajri , Mohamad Assaad

In a content delivery network (CDN), resources are strained during peak-time and underutilised in off-peak times when supplying digital content to users. Caching can help balance this. At the off-peak time some content is delivered to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-13 S. -L. Ng , M. B. Paterson , E. A. Quaglia

This paper studies physical-layer security for a cache-enabled heterogeneous cellular network comprised of a macro base station and multiple small base stations (SBSs). We investigate a joint design on caching placement and file delivery…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Tong-Xing Zheng , Hui-Ming Wang , Jinhong Yuan

Content caching in small base stations or wireless infostations is considered to be a suitable approach to improve the efficiency in wireless content delivery. Placing the optimal content into local caches is crucial due to storage…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-05-11 Sabrina Müller , Onur Atan , Mihaela van der Schaar , Anja Klein

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

Efficient usage of in-device storage and computation capabilities are key solutions to support data-intensive applications such as immersive digital experiences. This paper proposes a location-dependent multi-antenna coded caching -based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Hamidreza Bakhshzad Mahmoodi , MohammadJavad Salehi , Antti Tölli

This chapter provides an overview of coded caching in the context of heterogeneous wireless networks. We begin by briefly describing the key idea behind coded caching and then discuss in detail the impact of various aspects such as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Jad Hachem , Nikhil Karamchandani , Suhas Diggavi , Sharayu Moharir

As the capacity demand of mobile applications keeps increasing, the backhaul network is becoming a bottleneck to support high quality of experience (QoE) in next-generation wireless networks. Content caching at base stations (BSs) is a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-03 Xi Peng , Juei-Chin Shen , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

We consider cache-aided wireless communication scenarios where each user requests both a file from an a-priori generated cacheable library (referred to as 'content'), and an uncacheable 'non-content' message generated at the start of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Hamdi Joudeh , Eleftherios Lampiris , Petros Elia , Giuseppe Caire

The deployment of small cells is expected to gain huge momentum in the near future, as a solution for managing the skyrocketing mobile data demand growth. Local caching of popular files at the small cell base stations has been recently…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-03-03 Konstantinos Poularakis , George Iosifidis , Vasilis Sourlas , Leandros Tassiulas

In a secure coded caching system, a central server balances the traffic flow between peak and off-peak periods by distributing some public data to the users' caches in advance. Meanwhile, these data are securely protected against the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Kangning Ma , Shuo Shao

This work studies a well-known shared-cache coded caching scenario where each cache can serve an arbitrary number of users, analyzing the case where there is some knowledge about such number of users (i.e., the topology) during the content…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Emanuele Parrinello , Antonio Bazco-Nogueras , Petros Elia

This paper considers heterogeneous coded caching where the users have unequal distortion requirements. The server is connected to the users via an error-free multicast link and designs the users' cache sizes subject to a total memory…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-28 Abdelrahman M. Ibrahim , Ahmed A. Zewail , Aylin Yener

The backhaul traffic is becoming a major concern in wireless and cellular networks (e.g., 4G-LTE and 5G) with the increasing demands for online video streaming. Caching the popular content in the cache memory of the network users (e.g.,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-20 Ali Tebbi , Chi Wan Sung

Caching aims to store data locally in some nodes within the network to be able to retrieve the contents in shorter time periods. However, caching in the network did not always consider secure storage (due to the compromise between time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-04 Mohsen Karimzadeh Kiskani , Hamid Sadjadpour

We consider caching in cellular networks in which each base station is equipped with a cache that can store a limited number of files. The popularity of the files is known and the goal is to place files in the caches such that the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Konstantin Avrachenkov , Jasper Goseling , Berksan Serbetci