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With files proactively stored at base stations (BSs), mobile edge caching enables direct content delivery without remote file fetching, which can reduce the end-to-end delay while relieving backhaul pressure. To effectively utilize the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Shan Zhang , Peter He , Katsuya Suto , Peng Yang , Lian Zhao , Xuemin , Shen

Coded caching is an efficient way to reduce network traffic congestion during peak hours by storing some content at the user's local cache memory without knowledge of later demands. The goal of coded caching design is to minimize the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Minquan Cheng , Dequan Liang , Ruizhong Wei

The \emph{file caching} problem is defined as follows. Given a cache of size $k$ (a positive integer), the goal is to minimize the total retrieval cost for the given sequence of requests to files. A file $f$ has size $size(f)$ (a positive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-10-19 Monik Khare , Neal E. Young

A new scheme for the problem of centralized coded caching with non-uniform demands is proposed. The distinguishing feature of the proposed placement strategy is that it admits equal sub-packetization for all files while allowing the users…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Saeid Sahraei , Pierre Quinton , Michael Gastpar

Caching systems have long been crucial for improving the performance of a wide variety of network and web based online applications. In such systems, end-to-end application performance heavily depends on the fraction of objects transferred…

Performance · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Nitish K. Panigrahy , Philippe Nain , Giovanni Neglia , Don Towsley

This work identifies the fundamental limits of Multi-Access Coded Caching (MACC) where each user is connected to multiple caches in a manner that follows a generalized combinatorial topology. This topology stands out as it allows for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Federico Brunero , Petros Elia

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

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

We study the problem of coded caching with nonuniform file popularity under the setting where the popularity distribution is initially unknown. By reframing the problem, we propose a method inspired by an algorithm from the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Mohammadsaber Bahadori , Seyed Pooya Shariatpanahi , Behnam Bahrak

Web caching is essential for the World Wide Web, saving processing power, bandwidth, and reducing latency. Many proxy caching solutions focus on buffering data from the main server, neglecting cacheable information meant for server writes.…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Ionut-Alex Moise , Alexandra Băicoianu

The problem of content delivery in caching networks is investigated for scenarios where multiple users request identical files. Redundant user demands are likely when the file popularity distribution is highly non-uniform or the user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Seyed Ali Saberali , Hamidreza Ebrahimzadeh Saffar , Lutz Lampe , Ian Blake

We consider the problem of designing decentralized schemes for coded caching. In this problem there are $K$ users each caching $M$ files out of a library of $N$ total files. The question is to minimize $R$, the number of broadcast…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Yitao Chen , Karthikeyan Shanmugam , Alexandros G. Dimakis

In this paper, we address the caching problem in small cell networks from a game theoretic point of view. In particular, we formulate the caching problem as a many-to-many matching game between small base stations and service providers'…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-05-22 Kenza Hamidouche , Walid Saad , Mérouane Debbah

An optimization of caching strategies is proposed as a formal approach allowing us a more efficient use of two-level computer memory. This approach is based on a set of mathematical models and a set of theorems, permitting analytical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 V. O. Groppen

We propose a new caching scheme where linear combinations of the file segments are cached at the users, for the cases where the number of files is no greater than the number of users. When a user requests a certain file in the delivery…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-02 Chao Tian , Jun Chen

In the online packet buffering problem (also known as the unweighted FIFO variant of buffer management), we focus on a single network packet switching device with several input ports and one output port. This device forwards unit-size,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-08-15 Marcin Bienkowski

Coded caching scheme, which is an effective technique to increase the transmission efficiency during peak traffic times, has recently become quite popular among the coding community. Generally rate can be measured to the transmission in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Minquan Cheng , Qifa Yan , Xiaohu Tang , Jing Jiang

This paper addresses a fundamental limitation for the adoption of caching for wireless access networks due to small population sizes. This shortcoming is due to two main challenges: (i) making timely estimates of varying content popularity…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Mathieu Leconte , Georgios Paschos , Lazaros Gkatzikis , Moez Draief , Spyridon Vassilaras , Symeon Chouvardas

We consider the coded caching problem with an additional privacy constraint that a user should not get any information about the demands of the other users. We first show that a demand-private scheme for $N$ files and $K$ users can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Chinmay Gurjarpadhye , Jithin Ravi , Sneha Kamath , Bikash Kumar Dey , Nikhil Karamchandani

We consider the problem of delivering content cached in a wireless network of n nodes randomly located on a square of area n. The network performance is described by the n2^n-dimensional caching capacity region of the wireless network. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-28 Urs Niesen , Devavrat Shah , Gregory Wornell