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Caching at the wireless edge is a promising way of boosting spectral efficiency and reducing energy consumption of wireless systems. These improvements are rooted in the fact that popular contents are reused, asynchronously, by many users.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Dong Liu , Binqiang Chen , Chenyang Yang , Andreas F. Molisch

Edge-caching has received much attention as an efficient technique to reduce delivery latency and network congestion during peak-traffic times by bringing data closer to end users. Existing works usually design caching algorithms separately…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-08 Thang X. Vu , Symeon Chatzinotas , Bjorn Ottersten

Mobile networks are experiencing tremendous increase in data volume and user density. An efficient technique to alleviate this issue is to bring the data closer to the users by exploiting the caches of edge network nodes, such as fixed or…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Nikolaos Nomikos , Spyros Zoupanos , Themistoklis Charalambous , Ioannis Krikidis , Athina Petropulu

With the advent of 5G networks and the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT), Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) are increasingly extending into the network edge. This shift introduces unique challenges, particularly due to the limited cache…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Hoda Torabi , Hamzeh Khazaei , Marin Litoiu

The multi-armed restless bandit framework allows to model a wide variety of decision-making problems in areas as diverse as industrial engineering, computer communication, operations research, financial engineering, communication networks…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-27 Urtzi Ayesta , Manu K. Gupta , Ina Maria Verloop

The Whittle index policy is a heuristic that has shown remarkably good performance (with guaranteed asymptotic optimality) when applied to the class of problems known as Restless Multi-Armed Bandit Problems (RMABPs). In this paper we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Francisco Robledo Relaño , Vivek Borkar , Urtzi Ayesta , Konstantin Avrachenkov

Wireless edge caching is a popular strategy to avoid backhaul congestion in the next generation networks, where the content is cached in advance at base stations to serve redundant requests during peak congestion periods. In the edge…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Navneet Garg , Tharmalingam Ratnarajah

We consider a mobile user accessing contents in a dynamic environment, where new contents are generated over time (by the user's contacts), and remain relevant to the user for random lifetimes. The user, equipped with a finite-capacity…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-12-28 Samuel O. Somuyiwa , Andras Gyorgy , Deniz Gunduz

Dynamic spectrum access problem is an important problem that allows a wireless sub-network to use channels temporarily unoccupied by the parent network for minimizing the spectrum waste. Previous work has shown that the sequential channel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Keqin Liu , Qizhen Jia , Yiying Zhang , Zhi Ding

Next-generation mobile networks are expected to facilitate fast AI model downloading to end users. By caching models on edge servers, mobile networks can deliver models to end users with low latency, resulting in a paradigm called edge…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Guanqiao Qu , Zheng Lin , Fangming Liu , Xianhao Chen , Kaibin Huang

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

We consider a wireless network in which a source node needs to transmit a large file to a destination node. The direct wireless link between the source and the destination is assumed to be blocked. Multiple candidate relays are available to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Mandar R. Nalavade , Ravindra S. Tomar , Gaurav S. Kasbekar

In this paper we investigate the problem of optimal MDS-encoded cache placement at the wireless edge to minimize the backhaul rate in heterogeneous networks. We derive the backhaul rate performance of any caching scheme based on file…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-21 Valerio Bioglio , Frederic Gabry , Ingmar Land

Current learning-based edge caching schemes usually suffer from dynamic content popularity, e.g., in the emerging short video platforms, users' request patterns shift significantly over time and across different edges. An intuitive solution…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Bowei He , Yinan Mao , Shiji Zhou , Chen Ma , Zhi Wang

In wireless networks, algorithms for user association, i.e., the task of choosing the base station (BS) that every arriving user should join, significantly impact the network performance. A wireless network with multiple BSs, operating on…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Pramod N Chine , Suven Jagtiani , Mandar R Nalavade , Gaurav S Kasbekar

By deploying machine-learning algorithms at the network edge, edge learning can leverage the enormous real-time data generated by billions of mobile devices to train AI models, which enable intelligent mobile applications. In this emerging…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Dongzhu Liu , Guangxu Zhu , Jun Zhang , Kaibin Huang

Caching and rate allocation are two promising approaches to support video streaming over wireless network. However, existing rate allocation designs do not fully exploit the advantages of the two approaches. This paper investigates the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-04-02 Zhengming Zhang , Yaru Zheng , Meng Hua , Yongming Huang , Luxi Yang

Mobile-edge computing (MEC) offloads computational tasks from wireless devices to network edge, and enables real-time information transmission and computing. Most existing work concerns a small-scale synchronous MEC system. In this paper,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Yizhen Xu , Peng Cheng , Zhuo Chen , Ming Ding , Branka Vucetic , Yonghui Li

We study the problem of planning restless multi-armed bandits (RMABs) with multiple actions. This is a popular model for multi-agent systems with applications like multi-channel communication, monitoring and machine maintenance tasks, and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Abheek Ghosh , Dheeraj Nagaraj , Manish Jain , Milind Tambe

In this paper we consider energy efficient scheduling in a multiuser setting where each user has a finite sized queue and there is a cost associated with holding packets (jobs) in each queue (modeling the delay constraints). The packets of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-10-18 Vivek S. Borkar , Gaurav S. Kasbekar , Sarath Pattathil , Priyesh Y. Shetty