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We study the problem of caching optimization in heterogeneous networks with mutual interference and per-file rate constraints from an energy efficiency perspective. A setup is considered in which two cache-enabled transmitter nodes and a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Estefanía Recayte , Giuseppe Cocco

Decentralized proactive caching and coded delivery is studied in a content delivery network, where each user is equipped with a cache memory, not necessarily of equal capacity. Cache memories are filled in advance during the off-peak…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri , Qianqian Yang , Deniz Gunduz

Caching is an efficient way to reduce peak hour network traffic congestion by storing some contents at the user's cache without knowledge of later demands. Coded caching strategy was originally proposed by Maddah-Ali and Niesen to give an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Kai Wan , Daniela Tuninetti , Pablo Piantanida , Mingyue Ji

Compute-and-forward (CF) is a relaying strategy which allows the relay to decode a linear combination of the transmitted messages. This work studies the optimal power allocation problem for the CF scheme in fast fading channels for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Lanwei Zhang , Jamie Evans , Jingge Zhu

Caching of popular content during off-peak hours is a strategy to reduce network loads during peak hours. Recent work has shown significant benefits of designing such caching strategies not only to deliver part of the content locally, but…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Nikhil Karamchandani , Urs Niesen , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , Suhas Diggavi

We explore the performance of coded caching in a SISO BC setting where some users have higher link capacities than others. Focusing on a binary and fixed topological model where strong links have a fixed normalized capacity 1, and where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-28 Jingjing Zhang , Petros Elia

Caching is an approach to smoothen the variability of traffic over time. Recently it has been proved that the local memories at the users can be exploited for reducing the peak traffic in a much more efficient way than previously believed.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-22 Saeid Sahraei , Michael Gastpar

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

The capacity of caching networks has received considerable attention in the past few years. A particularly studied setting is the case of a single server (e.g., a base station) and multiple users, each of which caches segments of files in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-30 Mingyue Ji , Antonia M. Tulino , Jaime Llorca , Giuseppe Caire

In a content delivery network (CDN), resources are strained during peak-time and underutilised in off-peak times when supplying digital content to users. Caching can help balance this. At the off-peak time some content is delivered to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-13 S. -L. Ng , M. B. Paterson , E. A. Quaglia

The work explores the fundamental limits of coded caching in heterogeneous networks where multiple ($N_0$) senders/antennas, serve different users which are associated (linked) to shared caches, where each such cache helps an arbitrary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Emanuele Parrinello , Ayse Unsal , Petros Elia

A centralized coded caching system, consisting of a server delivering N popular files, each of size F bits, to K users through an error-free shared link, is considered. It is assumed that each user is equipped with a local cache memory with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-15 Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri , Deniz Gunduz

Edge caching and computing have been regarded as an efficient approach to tackle the wireless spectrum crunch problem. In this paper, we design a general coded caching with device computing strategy for content computation, e.g., virtual…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Yingjiao Li , Zhiyong Chen , Meixia Tao

We consider the problem of \emph{secretive coded caching} in a shared cache setup where the number of users accessing a particular \emph{helper cache} is more than one, and every user can access exactly one helper cache. In secretive coded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Shreya Shrestha Meel , B. Sundar Rajan

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

Clustered cell-free networking has emerged as a promising architecture to balance the high performance of cell-free massive MIMO and the scalability of traditional cellular systems. However, achieving fairness across subnetworks remains a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Chaowen Deng , Jie Fan , Boxiang Ren , Ziyuan Lyu , Jingchen Peng , Hao Wu , Junyuan Wang

In cache-aided networks, the server populates the cache memories at the users during low-traffic periods, in order to reduce the delivery load during peak-traffic hours. In turn, there exists a fundamental trade-off between the delivery…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Abdelrahman M. Ibrahim , Ahmed A. Zewail , Aylin Yener

Future Internet usage will be dominated by the consumption of a rich variety of online multimedia services accessed from an exponentially growing number of multimedia capable mobile devices. As such, future Internet designs will be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Angela Sara Cacciapuoti , Marcello Caleffi , Mingyue Ji , Jaime Llorca , Antonia Maria Tulino

Existing decentralized coded caching solutions cannot guarantee small loads in the general scenario with arbitrary file sizes and cache sizes. In this paper, we propose an optimization framework for decentralized coded caching in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Qi Wang , Ying Cui , Sian Jin , Junni Zou , Chenglin Li , Hongkai Xiong

The work establishes the exact performance limits of stochastic coded caching when users share a bounded number of cache states, and when the association between users and caches, is random. Under the premise that more balanced…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Adeel Malik , Berksan Serbetci , Emanuele Parrinello , Petros Elia