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Deployment vs. data retrieval costs for caches in the plane
We consider the problem of finding the Pareto front of the expected deployment cost of wireless caches in the plane and the expected retrieval cost of a client requesting data from the caches. The data is allocated at the caches according to partitioning and coding strategies. We show that under coding, it is optimal to deploy many caches with low storage capacity. For partitioning, we derive a simple relation between the cost of the cache deployment and the cost of retrieving the data from the caches. Lastly, we show that coding results in a lower Pareto front than partitioning
Content Caching and Delivery over Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
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
coded caching-and-delivery scheme for such architectures that equips APs with
storage, enabling content pre-fetching prior to knowing user demands. Users
requesting content are served by connecting to local APs with cached content,
as well as by listening to a BS broadcast transmission. For any given content
popularity profile, the goal is to design the caching-and-delivery scheme so as
to optimally trade off the transmission cost at the BS against the storage cost
at the APs and the user cost of connecting to multiple APs. We design a coded
caching scheme for non-uniform content popularity that dynamically allocates
user access to APs based on requested content. We demonstrate the approximate
optimality of our scheme with respect to information-theoretic bounds. We
numerically evaluate it on a YouTube dataset and quantify the trade-off between
transmission rate, storage, and access cost. Our numerical results also suggest
the intriguing possibility that, to gain most of the benefits of coded caching,
it suffices to divide the content into a small number of popularity classes.Comment: A shorter version is to appear in IEEE INFOCOM 201
Modeling and Analysis of Content Caching in Wireless Small Cell Networks
Network densification with small cell base stations is a promising solution
to satisfy future data traffic demands. However, increasing small cell base
station density alone does not ensure better users quality-of-experience and
incurs high operational expenditures. Therefore, content caching on different
network elements has been proposed as a mean of offloading he backhaul by
caching strategic contents at the network edge, thereby reducing latency. In
this paper, we investigate cache-enabled small cells in which we model and
characterize the outage probability, defined as the probability of not
satisfying users requests over a given coverage area. We analytically derive a
closed form expression of the outage probability as a function of
signal-to-interference ratio, cache size, small cell base station density and
threshold distance. By assuming the distribution of base stations as a Poisson
point process, we derive the probability of finding a specific content within a
threshold distance and the optimal small cell base station density that
achieves a given target cache hit probability. Furthermore, simulation results
are performed to validate the analytical model.Comment: accepted for publication, IEEE ISWCS 201
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