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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 cellular networks, the densification of connected devices and base stations engender the ever-growing traffic intensity, and caching popular contents with smart management is a promising way to alleviate such consequences. Our research…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Takehiro Ohashi

In this paper, we investigate the optimal caching policy respectively maximizing the success probability and area spectral efficiency (ASE) in a cache-enabled heterogeneous network (HetNet) where a tier of multi-antenna macro base stations…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-01 Dong Liu , Chenyang Yang

Content caching is a widely studied technique aimed to reduce the network load imposed by data transmission during peak time while ensuring users' quality of experience. It has been shown that when there is a common link between caches and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Abdollah Ghaffari Sheshjavani , Ahmad Khonsari , Seyed Pooya Shariatpanahi , Masoumeh Moradian

This paper focuses on edge caching in dense heterogeneous cellular networks (HetNets), in which small base stations (SBSs) with limited cache size store the popular contents, and massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) aided macro…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Lifeng Wang , Kai-Kit Wong , Sangarapillai Lambotharan , Arumugam Nallanathan , Maged Elkashlan

To address the exponentially rising demand for wireless content, use of caching is emerging as a potential solution. It has been recently established that joint design of content delivery and storage (coded caching) can significantly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-01 Jad Hachem , Nikhil Karamchandani , Suhas Diggavi

This paper studies the performance of cache-enabled dense small cell networks consisting of multi-antenna sub-6 GHz and millimeter-wave base stations. Different from the existing works which only consider a single antenna at each base…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-01-18 Yongxu Zhu , Gan Zheng , Lifeng Wang , Kai-Kit Wong , Liqiang Zhao

We state and solve a problem of the optimal geographic caching of content in cellular networks, where linear combinations of contents are stored in the caches of base stations. We consider a general content popularity distribution and a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-04-28 Jocelyne Elias , Bartłomiej Błaszczyszyn

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

Optimal cache content placement in a wireless small cell base station (sBS) with limited backhaul capacity is studied. The sBS has a large cache memory and provides content-level selective offloading by delivering high data rate contents to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-24 Pol Blasco , Deniz Gunduz

Emerging heterogeneous wireless architectures consist of a dense deployment of local-coverage wireless access points (APs) with high data rates, along with sparsely-distributed, large-coverage macro-cell base stations (BS). We design a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Jad Hachem , Nikhil Karamchandani , Suhas Diggavi

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

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

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

We focus on a dense cellular network, in which a limited-size cache is available at every Base Station (BS). In order to optimize the overall performance of the system in such scenario, where a significant fraction of the users is covered…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Emilio Leonardi , Giovanni Neglia

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

We develop Gibbs sampling based techniques for learning the optimal content placement in a cellular network. A collection of base stations are scattered on the space, each having a cell (possibly overlapping with other cells). Mobile users…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Arpan Chattopadhyay , Bartłomiej Błaszczyszyn , H. Paul Keeler

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

Wireless caching has been widely recognized as a promising technique for efficient content delivery. In this paper, by taking different file secrecy levels into consideration, physical-layer security oriented content placement is optimized…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Qian Yang , Hui-Ming Wang , Tong-Xing Zheng