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In this paper, we propose a novel wireless caching scheme to enhance the physical layer security of video streaming in cellular networks with limited backhaul capacity. By proactively sharing video data across a subset of base stations…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Lin Xiang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober , Vincent W. S. Wong

With the burgeoning demand for data-intensive services, satellite-terrestrial networks (STNs) face increasing backhaul link congestion, deteriorating user quality of service (QoS), and escalating power consumption. Cache-aided STNs are…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Shuo Yuan , Yaohua Sun , Mugen Peng

With the rapid explosion of data volume from mobile networks, edge caching has received significant attentions as an efficient approach to boost content delivery efficiency by bringing contents near users. In this article, cache-enabled…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Congshan Fan , Tiankui Zhang , Yuanwei Liu , Zhiming Zeng

In a Poisson Point Process (PPP) network model, in which the locations of Base Stations (BSs) are randomly distributed according to a Spatial Poisson Process, has been recently used as a tractable stochastic model to analyse the performance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Sinh Cong Lam , Kumbesan Sandrasegaran

Caching at the network edge has emerged as a viable solution for alleviating the severe capacity crunch in modern content centric wireless networks by leveraging network load-balancing in the form of localized content storage and delivery.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-15 Avik Sengupta , Ravi Tandon

Dramatic mobile data traffic growth has spurred a dense deployment of small cell base stations (SCBSs). Small cells enhance the spectrum efficiency and thus enlarge the capacity of mobile networks. Although SCBSs consume much less power…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-12-18 Tao Han , Nirwan Ansari

Spatial Poisson Point Process (PPP) network, whose Base Stations (BS)s are distributed according to a Poisson distribution, is currently used as a accurate model to analyse the performance of a cellular network. Most current work on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-13 Sinh Cong Lam , Kumbesan Sandrasegaran

In this paper, we analyze the performance of cellular networks and study the optimal base station (BS) density to reduce the network power consumption. In contrast to previous works with similar purpose, we consider Poisson traffic for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-24 Zheng Chen , Ling Qiu

To further improve the energy efficiency of heterogeneous networks, a separation architecture called hyper-cellular network (HCN) has been proposed, which decouples the control signaling and data transmission functions. Specifically, the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-08-24 Shan Zhang , Jie Gong , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu

In milimeter wave heterogenous networks with integrated access and backhaul (mABHetNets), a considerable part of spectrum resources are occupied by the backhaul link, which limits the performance of the access link. In order to overcome…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Chenwu Zhang , Hancheng Lu , Zhuojia Gu

This letter investigates the performance of content caching in a heterogeneous cellular network (HetNet) consisting of fluid antenna system (FAS)-equipped mobile users (MUs) and millimeter-wave (mm-wave) single-antenna small base stations…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Kai-Kit Wong , Kin-Fai Tong , Yangyang Zhang

The growing demand for mobile data services in dense urban areas has intensified the need for energy-efficient radio access networks (RANs) in future 6G systems. In this context, one promising strategy is cell switching (CS), which…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Maryam Salamatmoghadasi , Amir Mehrabian , Halim Yanikomeroglu , Georges Kaddoum

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

Motivated by the recent development of energy harvesting communications, and the trend of multimedia contents caching and push at the access edge and user terminals, this paper considers how to design an effective push mechanism of energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-27 Jie Gong , Sheng Zhou , Zhenyu Zhou , Zhisheng Niu

Locally caching contents at the network edge constitutes one of the most disruptive approaches in $5$G wireless networks. Reaping the benefits of edge caching hinges on solving a myriad of challenges such as how, what and when to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-30 Ejder Baştuğ , Mehdi Bennis , Mérouane Debbah

In this paper we develop a tractable framework for SINR analysis in downlink heterogeneous cellular networks (HCNs) with flexible cell association policies. The HCN is modeled as a multi-tier cellular network where each tier's base stations…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Han-Shin Jo , Young Jin Sang , Ping Xia , Jeffrey G. Andrews

This study introduces and addresses the critical challenge of traffic load estimation in cell switching within vertical heterogeneous networks. The effectiveness of cell switching is significantly limited by the lack of accurate traffic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-19 Maryam Salamatmoghadasi , Metin Ozturk , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Future generation wireless networks are designed with extremely low delay requirements which makes even small contributed delays important. On the other hand, software defined networking (SDN) has been introduced as a key enabler of future…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Seyed Hamed Rastegar , Aliazam Abbasfar , Vahid Shah-Mansouri

We consider distributed and dynamic caching of coded content at small base stations (SBSs) in an area served by a macro base station (MBS). Specifically, content is encoded using a maximum distance separable code and cached according to a…

Caching popular contents is a promising way to offload the mobile data traffic in wireless networks, but so far the potential advantage of caching in improving physical layer security (PLS) is rarely considered. In this paper, we contribute…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Wu Zhao , Zhiyong Chen , Kuikui Li , Bin Xia