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Content caching at the edge of network is a promising technique to alleviate the burden of backhaul networks. In this paper, we consider content caching along time in a base station with limited cache capacity. As the popularity of contents…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Ghafour Ahani , Di Yuan

Base station cooperation in heterogeneous wireless networks (HetNets) is a promising approach to improve the network performance, but it also imposes a significant challenge on backhaul. On the other hand, caching at small base stations…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-23 Wanli Wen , Ying Cui , Fu-Chun Zheng , Shi Jin , Yanxiang Jiang

Caching multimedia contents at the network edge is a key solution to decongest the amount of traffic in the backhaul link. In this paper, we extend and analyze the coded caching technique [1] in an unexplored scenario, i.e. at the edge of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Estefania Recayte

The surge of mobile data traffic forces network operators to cope with capacity shortage. The deployment of small cells in 5G networks is meant to reduce latency, backhaul traffic and increase radio access capacity. In this context, mobile…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-07 Francesco De Pellegrini , Antonio Massaro , Leonardo Goratti , Rachid El-Azouzi

Caching contents at the network edge is an efficient mean for offloading traffic, reducing latency and improving users' quality-of-experience. In this letter, we focus on aspects of storage-bandwidth tradeoffs in which small cell base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Syed Tamoor-ul-Hassan , Mehdi Bennis , Pedro H. J. Nardelli , Matti Latva-Aho

A two-tier heterogeneous cellular network (HCN) with intra-tier and inter-tier dependence is studied. The macro cell deployment follows a Poisson point process (PPP) and two different clustered point processes are used to model the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Ejder Baştuğ , Mehdi Bennis , Marios Kountouris , Mérouane Debbah

Edge-caching has received much attention as an efficient technique to reduce delivery latency and network congestion during peak-traffic times by bringing data closer to end users. Existing works usually design caching algorithms separately…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-08 Thang X. Vu , Symeon Chatzinotas , Bjorn Ottersten

This paper investigates one of the fundamental issues in cache-enabled heterogeneous networks (HetNets): how many cache instances should be deployed at different base stations, in order to provide guaranteed service in a cost-effective…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-07-14 Shan Zhang , Ning Zhang , Peng Yang , Xuemin Shen

We introduce the problem of optimal congestion control in cache networks, whereby \emph{both} rate allocations and content placements are optimized \emph{jointly}. We formulate this as a maximization problem with non-convex constraints, and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Khashayar Kamran , Armin Moharrer , Stratis Ioannidis , Edmund Yeh

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

A heterogenous network with base stations (BSs), small base stations (SBSs) and users distributed according to independent Poisson point processes is considered. SBS nodes are assumed to possess high storage capacity and to form a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 B. N. Bharath , K. G. Nagananda , H. Vincent Poor

Caching popular contents at base stations (BSs) can reduce the backhaul cost and improve the network throughput. Yet whether locally caching at the BSs can improve the energy efficiency (EE), a major goal for 5th generation cellular…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-07 Dong Liu , Chenyang Yang

We study the throughput and delay characteristics of wireless caching networks, where users are mainly interested in retrieving content stored in the network, rather than in maintaining source-destination communication. Nodes are assumed to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Milad Mahdian , Edmund Yeh

This paper studies content caching in cloud-aided wireless networks where small cell base stations with limited storage are connected to the cloud via limited capacity fronthaul links. By formulating a utility (inverse of service delay)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Syed Tamoor-ul-Hassan , Sumudu Samarakoon , Mehdi Bennis , Matti Latva-aho , Choong-Seong Hong

We investigate the problem of optimal request routing and content caching in a heterogeneous network supporting in-network content caching with the goal of minimizing average content access delay. Here, content can either be accessed…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-01-05 Mostafa Dehghan , Anand Seetharam , Bo Jiang , Ting He , Theodoros Salonidis , Jim Kurose , Don Towsley , Ramesh Sitaraman

Nowadays, data caching is being used as a high-speed data storage layer in mobile edge computing networks employing flow control methodologies at an exponential rate. This study shows how to discover the best architecture for backhaul…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Amir Ziaeddini , Amin Mohajer , Davoud Yousefi , A. Mirzaei , Shu Gonglee

With the introduction of caching capabilities into small cell networks (SCNs), new backaul management mechanisms need to be developed to prevent the predicted files that are downloaded by the at the small base stations (SBSs) to be cached…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-04 Kenza Hamidouche , Walid Saad , Mérouane Debbah , Ju Bin Song , Choong Seon Hong

We consider a network model where small base stations (SBSs) have caching capabilities as a means to alleviate the backhaul load and satisfy users' demand. The SBSs are stochastically distributed over the plane according to a Poisson point…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-08 Ejder Baştuğ , Mehdi Bennis , Marios Kountouris , Mérouane Debbah

Caching popular content at base stations is a powerful supplement to existing limited backhaul links for accommodating the exponentially increasing mobile data traffic. Given the limited cache budget, we investigate the cache size…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-01 Xi Peng , Jun Zhang , S. H. Song , Khaled B. Letaief

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