A learning-based approach to caching in heterogenous small cell networks

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1674-1686

  Bharath, B N ^a   Nagananda, K G ^a   Poor, H Vincent ^b  

^a PES UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

Caching; Popularity profile; Small cell networks; Transfer learning

Indexed keywords

BASE STATIONS; COST FUNCTIONS; COSTS; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS;

CACHING; DISTRIBUTION PARAMETERS; HETEROGENOUS NETWORK; LEARNING-BASED APPROACH; POISSON POINT PROCESS; POPULARITY PROFILE; SMALL CELL NETWORKS; TRANSFER LEARNING;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84964334370     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2016.2536728     Document Type: Article

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