Content caching and delivery in wireless radio access networks
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Author(s)
Tao, Meixia
Gunduz, Deniz
Xu, Fan
Pujol Roig, Joan S
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Today’s mobile data traffic is dominated by contentoriented traffic. Caching popular contents at the network edge can alleviate network congestion and reduce content delivery latency. This paper provides a comprehensive and unified study of caching and delivery techniques in wireless radio access networks (RANs) with caches at all edge nodes (ENs) and user equipments (UEs). Three cache-aided RAN architectures are considered: RANs without fronthaul, with dedicated fronthaul, and with wireless fronthaul. It first reviews in a tutorial nature how caching facilitates interference management in these networks by enabling interference cancellation (IC), zero-forcing (ZF), and interference alignment (IA). Then, two new delivery schemes are presented. One is for RANs with dedicated fronthaul, which considers centralized cache placement at the ENs but both centralized and decentralized placement at the UEs. This scheme combines IA, ZF, and IC together with soft-transfer fronthauling. The other is for RANs with wireless fronthaul, which considers decentralized cache placement at all nodes. It leverages the broadcast nature of wireless fronthaul to fetch not only uncached but also cached contents to boost transmission cooperation among the ENs. Numerical results show that both schemes outperform existing results for a wide range of system parameters, thanks to the various caching gains obtained opportunistically.
Date Issued
2019-04-22
Date Acceptance
2019-04-09
Citation
IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2019, 67 (7), pp.4724-4749
ISSN
0090-6778
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Start Page
4724
End Page
4749
Journal / Book Title
IEEE Transactions on Communications
Volume
67
Issue
7
Copyright Statement
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Sponsor
Toshiba Research Europe Ltd
Commission of the European Communities
Identifier
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8695087
Grant Number
PhD 059 Imperial
677854
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Telecommunications
Engineering
Coded caching
delivery time
fog radio access networks
interference alignment
interference cancellation
interference management
wireless edge caching
zero-forcing
FUNDAMENTAL LIMITS
BROADCAST CHANNELS
CODED DELIVERY
LATENCY
0906 Electrical and Electronic Engineering
1005 Communications Technologies
0804 Data Format
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2019-04-22