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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

In this work we investigate optimal geographical caching in heterogeneous cellular networks where different types of base stations (BSs) have different cache capacities. Users request files from a content library according to a known…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Berksan Serbetci , Jasper Goseling

We develop a framework for downlink heterogeneous cellular networks with line-of-sight (LoS) and non-line-of-sight (NLoS) transmissions. Using stochastic geometry, we derive tight approximation of achievable downlink rate that enables us to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-13 Qi Zhang , Howard H. Yang , Tony Q. S. Quek , Jemin Lee

Caching at base stations is a promising technology to satisfy the increasing capacity requirements and reduce the backhaul loads in future wireless networks. Careful design of random caching can fully exploit the file popularity and achieve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-20 Sufeng Kuang , Nan Liu

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

Recently, a mmWave-based access and backhaul integration HetNetsarchitecture (mABHetNets) has been envisioned to provide the high link capacity in both access and backhaul links. In mABHetNets, the access link and the backhaul link will…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Hao Wu , Chenwu Zhang , Hancheng Lu , Qi Hu

Caching in multi-cell networks faces a well-known dilemma, i.e., to cache same contents among multiple edge nodes (ENs) to enable transmission cooperation/diversity for higher transmission efficiency, or to cache different contents to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Kangqi Liu , Meixia Tao

The evaluation of the performance of clustered cooperative beamforming in cellular networks generally requires the solution of complex non-convex optimization problems. In this letter, a framework based on a hypergraph formalism is proposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-22 Bahar Azari , Osvaldo Simeone , Umberto Spagnolini , Antonia M. Tulino

Random spatial models are attractive for modeling heterogeneous cellular networks (HCNs) due to their realism, tractability, and scalability. A major limitation of such models to date in the context of HCNs is the neglect of network traffic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Harpreet S. Dhillon , Radha Krishna Ganti , Jeffrey G. Andrews

This paper focuses on edge caching in mm/{\mu}Wave hybrid wireless networks, in which all mmWave SBSs and {\mu}Wave MBSs are capable of storing contents to alleviate the traffic burden on the backhaul link that connect the BSs and the core…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-02 Tong Zhang , Sudip Biswas , Keshav Singh , Tharmalingam Ratnarajah

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

Endowed with context-awareness and proactive capabilities, caching users' content locally at the edge of the network is able to cope with increasing data traffic demand in 5G wireless networks. In this work, we focus on the energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Bhanukiran Perabathini , Ejder Baştuğ , Marios Kountouris , Mérouane Debbah , Alberto Conte

In this paper we investigate the problem of optimal cache placement under secrecy constraints in heterogeneous networks, where small-cell base stations are equipped with caches to reduce the overall backhaul load. For two models for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-21 Frederic Gabry , Valerio Bioglio , Ingmar Land

In this paper, the problem of energy efficiency in cellular heterogeneous networks (HetNets) is investigated using radio resource and power management combined with the base station (BS) ON/OFF switching. The objective is to minimize the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Hakim Ghazzai , Muhammad Junaid Farooq , Ahmad Alsharoa , Elias Yaacoub , Abdullah Kadri , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

The large amount of deployed smart devices put tremendous traffic pressure on networks. Caching at the edge has been widely studied as a promising technique to solve this problem. To further improve the successful transmission probability…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Tianming Feng , Shuo Shi , Shushi Gu , Ning Zhang , Wei Xiang , Xuemai Gu

A significant burden on wireless networks is brought by the uploading of user-generated contents to the Internet by means of applications such as the social media. To cope with this mobile data tsunami, we develop a novel MIMO network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos , Tharmalingam Ratnarajah

As future networks aim to meet the ever-increasing requirements of high data rate applications, dense and heterogeneous networks (HetNets) will be deployed to provide better coverage and throughput. Besides the important implications for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-30 Howard H. Yang , Giovanni Geraci , Tony Q. S. Quek

This work investigates the degrees of freedom (DoF) of a downlink cache-aided cellular network where the locations of base stations (BSs) are modeled as a grid topology and users within a grid cell can only communicate with four nearby BSs.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Youlong Cao , Meixia Tao

We investigate optimal geographical caching in heterogeneous cellular networks, where different types of base stations (BSs) have different cache capacities. The content library contains files with different popularities. The performance…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Berksan Serbetci , Jasper Goseling

To meet the ever-growing demand for a higher communicating rate and better communication quality, more and more small cells are overlaid under the macro base station (MBS) tier, thus forming the heterogeneous networks. Small cells can ease…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-05-18 Tao Han , Yujie Han , Xiaohu Ge , Qiang Li , Jing Zhang , Zhiquan Bai , Lijun Wang