162 research outputs found
Multicast Beamformer Design for MIMO Coded Caching Systems
Coded caching (CC) techniques have been shown to be conveniently applicable
in multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems. In a -user network with spatial
multiplexing gains of at the transmitter and at every receiver, if each
user can cache a fraction of the file library, a total number of
data streams can be served in parallel. In this paper, we focus
on improving the finite-SNR performance of MIMO-CC systems. We first consider a
MIMO-CC scheme that relies only on unicasting individual data streams, and
then, introduce a decomposition strategy to design a new scheme that delivers
the same data streams through multicasting of parallel codewords. We
discuss how optimized beamformers could be designed for each scheme and use
numerical simulations to compare their finite-SNR performance. It is shown that
while both schemes serve the same number of streams, multicasting provides
notable performance improvements. This is because, with multicasting,
transmission vectors are built with fewer beamformers, leading to more
efficient usage of available power resources
NOMA Assisted Wireless Caching: Strategies and Performance Analysis
Conventional wireless caching assumes that content can be pushed to local
caching infrastructure during off-peak hours in an error-free manner; however,
this assumption is not applicable if local caches need to be frequently updated
via wireless transmission. This paper investigates a new approach to wireless
caching for the case when cache content has to be updated during on-peak hours.
Two non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) assisted caching strategies are
developed, namely the push-then-deliver strategy and the push-and-deliver
strategy. In the push-then-deliver strategy, the NOMA principle is applied to
push more content files to the content servers during a short time interval
reserved for content pushing in on-peak hours and to provide more connectivity
for content delivery, compared to the conventional orthogonal multiple access
(OMA) strategy. The push-and-deliver strategy is motivated by the fact that
some users' requests cannot be accommodated locally and the base station has to
serve them directly. These events during the content delivery phase are
exploited as opportunities for content pushing, which further facilitates the
frequent update of the files cached at the content servers. It is also shown
that this strategy can be straightforwardly extended to device-to-device
caching, and various analytical results are developed to illustrate the
superiority of the proposed caching strategies compared to OMA based schemes
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