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Coded caching is effective in leveraging the accumulated storage size in wireless networks by distributing different coded segments of each file in multiple cache nodes. This paper aims to find a wireless coded caching policy to minimize…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-20 Zhe Zhang , Meixia Tao

Caching networks are designed to reduce traffic load at backhaul links, by serving demands from edge-nodes. In the past decades, many studies have been done to address the caching problem. However, in practice, finding an optimal caching…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Elahe Rezaei , Hafez Eslami Manoochehri , Babak Hossein Khalaj

Caching is an efficient way to reduce network traffic congestion during peak hours by storing some content at the users' local caches. For the shared-link network with end-user-caches, Maddah-Ali and Niesen proposed a two-phase coded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Kai Wan , Daniela Tuninetti , Mingyue Ji , Pablo Piantanida

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

Small-cell networks have been proposed to meet the demand of ever growing mobile data traffic. One of the prominent challenges faced by small-cell networks is the lack of sufficient backhaul capacity to connect small-cell base stations…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-07-07 Yang Guan , Yao Xiao , Hao Feng , Chien-Chung Shen , Leonard J. Cimini

We propose a decentralized spatial soft-core cache placement (SSCC) policy for wireless networks. SSCC yields a spatially balanced sampling via negative dependence across caches, and can be tuned to satisfy cache size constraints with high…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-01 Derya Malak , Muriel Médard , Edmund Yeh

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

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 2018-07-16 Wenqiang Yi , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan

To meet the increasing demand for wireless capacity, future networks are likely to consist of dense layouts of small cells. The number of users in each cell is thus reduced which results in diminished gains from opportunistic scheduling,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-04-01 Qing Wang , Balaji Rengarajan , Joerg Widmer

This work studies a well-known shared-cache coded caching scenario where each cache can serve an arbitrary number of users, analyzing the case where there is some knowledge about such number of users (i.e., the topology) during the content…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Emanuele Parrinello , Antonio Bazco-Nogueras , Petros Elia

Prior works in designing caching policy do not distinguish content popularity with user preference. In this paper, we illustrate the caching gain by exploiting individual user behavior in sending requests. After showing the connection…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-04 Binqiang Chen , Chenyang Yang

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

We study the problem of interference management in large-scale small cell networks, where each user equipment (UE) needs to determine in a distributed manner when and at what power level it should transmit to its serving small cell base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-10 Kartik Ahuja , Yuanzhang Xiao , Mihaela van der Schaar

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

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

Small basestations (SBs) equipped with caching units have potential to handle the unprecedented demand growth in heterogeneous networks. Through low-rate, backhaul connections with the backbone, SBs can prefetch popular files during…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Alireza Sadeghi , Fatemeh Sheikholeslami , Georgios B. Giannakis

It has been recently established that joint design of content delivery and storage (coded caching) can significantly improve performance over conventional caching. This has also been extended to the case when content has non-uniform…

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

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

In this work, we propose a content caching and delivery strategy to maximize throughput capacity in cache-enabled wireless networks. To this end, efficient betweenness (EB), which indicates the ratio of content delivery paths passing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Chenxi Zhao , Junyu Liu , Min Sheng , Yanpeng Dai

In traditional cache-enabled small-cell networks (SCNs), a user can suffer strong interference due to contentcentric base station association. This may degenerate the advantage of collaborative content caching among multiple small base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Xianzhe Xu , Meixia Tao