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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 at the edge is a promising technique to cope with the increasing data demand in wireless networks. This paper analyzes the performance of cellular networks consisting of a tier macro-cell wireless backhaul nodes overlaid with a tier…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Italo Atzeni , Marco Maso , Imène Ghamnia , Ejder Baştuğ , Mérouane Debbah

Recently, a mmWave-based access and backhaul integration heterogeneous networks (HetNets) architecture (mABHetNets) has been envisioned to provide high wireless capacity.Since the access link and the backhaul link share the same mmwave…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Chenwu Zhang , Hao Wu , Hancheng Lu , Jinxue Liu

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

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

Mobile edge caching (MEC) has been introduced to support ever-growing end-users' needs. To reduce the backhaul traffic demand and content delivery latency, cache-enabled edge servers at base stations (BSs) are employed to provision popular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-01 Susanna Mosleh , Qiang Fan , Lingjia Liu , Jonathan D. Ashdown , Erik Perrins , Kurt Turck

Edge caching is a new paradigm that has been exploited over the past several years to reduce the load for the core network and to enhance the content delivery performance. Many existing caching solutions only consider homogeneous caching…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Md Ferdous Pervej , Le Thanh Tan , Rose Qingyang Hu

In this paper, we consider a novel cache-enabled heterogeneous network (HetNet), where macro base stations (BSs) with traditional sub-6 GHz are overlaid by dense millimeter wave (mmWave) pico BSs. These two-tier BSs, which are modeled as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-29 Wenqiang Yi , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan

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 paper, we study the coexistence and synergy between edge and central cloud computing in a heterogeneous cellular network (HetNet), which contains a multi-antenna macro base station (MBS), multiple multi-antenna small base stations…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Xiaoyan Hu , Lifeng Wang , Kai-Kit Wong , Yangyang Zhang , Zhongbin Zheng , Meixia Tao

In milimeter wave heterogenous networks with integrated access and backhaul (mABHetNets), a considerable part of spectrum resources are occupied by the backhaul link, which limits the performance of the access link. In order to overcome…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Chenwu Zhang , Hancheng Lu , Zhuojia Gu

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

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

Locally caching contents at the network edge constitutes one of the most disruptive approaches in $5$G wireless networks. Reaping the benefits of edge caching hinges on solving a myriad of challenges such as how, what and when to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-30 Ejder Baştuğ , Mehdi Bennis , Mérouane Debbah

In this paper, we study the downlink performance of a heterogeneous cellular network (HetNet) where both macro and small cells share the same spectrum and hence interfere with each other. We assume that the users are concentrated at certain…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-23 Ansuman Adhikary , Harpreet S. Dhillon , Giuseppe Caire

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

Carrier aggregation (CA) and small cells are two distinct features of next-generation cellular networks. Cellular networks with small cells take on a very heterogeneous characteristic, and are often referred to as HetNets. In this paper, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Xingqin Lin , Jeffrey G. Andrews , Amitava Ghosh

In this paper we investigate the problem of optimal cache placement in the presence of malicious mobile users in heterogeneous networks, where small-cell base stations are equipped with caches in order to reduce the overall backhaul load.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-25 Frederic Gabry , Valerio Bioglio , Ingmar Land

Caching at the base stations (BSs) has been widely adopted to reduce the delivery delay and alleviate the backhaul traffic between BSs and the core network. In this paper, we consider a collaborative content caching scheme among BSs in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Yaping Sun , Zhiyong Chen , Hui Liu

In the area of full duplex (FD)-enabled small cell networks, limited works have been done on consideration of cache and mobile edge communication (MEC). In this paper, a virtual FD-enabled small cell network with cache and MEC is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-06-30 Zhiyuan Tan , F. Richard Yu , Xi Li , Hong Ji , Victor C. M. Leung