Cooperative Edge Caching in User-Centric Clustered Mobile Networks

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2018, Pages 1791-1805

  Zhang, Shan ^a,b   He, Peter ^b   Suto, Katsuya ^b   Yang, Peng ^c   Zhao, Lian ^d   Shen, Xuemin ^b  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

content placement; cooperative coded caching; Mobile edge caching; user centric networks

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BASE STATIONS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION; MOBILE COMPUTING; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TOPOLOGY;

CHANNEL ALLOCATION; CONTENT PLACEMENT; COOPERATIVE CACHING; COOPERATIVE CODED CACHING; DELAYS; EDGE CACHING; MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; NETWORK TOPOLOGY; USER-CENTRIC NETWORKS;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 85038374007     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2017.2780834     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. S. Zhang, P. He, K. Suto, P. Yang, L. Zhao, and X. Shen, "Traffic steering assisted mobile edge caching: Exploiting spatial content diversity gain," in IEEE GLOBECOM'17, Singapore, Dec. 2017.
2. D. López-Pérez, M. Ding, H. Claussen, and A. H. Jafari, "Towards 1 Gbps/UE in cellular systems: understanding ultra-dense small cell deployments," IEEE Commun. Surveys Tuts., vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 2078-2101, Jun. 2015.
3. X. Ge, H. Cheng, M. Guizani, and T. Han, "5G wireless backhaul networks: challenges and research advances," IEEE Netw., vol. 28, no. 6, pp. 6-11, Nov. 2014.
4. C. Fang, F. R. Yu, T. Huang, J. Liu, and Y. Liu, "A survey of green information-centric networking: Research issues and challenges." IEEE Commun. Surveys Tuts., vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 1455-1472, Feb. 2015.
5. K. Poularakis and L. Tassiulas, "Code, cache and deliver on themove: Anovel caching paradigm in hyper-dense small-cell networks," IEEE Trans. Mobile Comput., vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 675-687, Mar. 2017.
6. S. Zhou, J. Gong, Z. Zhou, W. Chen, and Z. Niu, "Green Delivery:proactive content caching and push with energy-harvesting-based small cells," IEEE Commun. Mag., vol. 53, no. 4, pp. 142-149, Apr. 2015.
7. E. Bastug, M. Bennis, and M. Debbah, "Living on the edge: The role of proactive caching in 5G wireless networks," IEEE Commun. Mag., vol. 52, no. 8, pp. 82-89, Aug. 2014.
8. P. Yang, N. Zhang, Y. Bi, L. Yu, and X. S. Shen, "Catalyzing cloudfog interoperation in 5G wireless networks: An SDN approach," IEEE Netw., vol. 31, no. 5, pp. 14-20, Sep. 2017.
9. K. Wang, F. R. Yu, and H. Li, "Information-centric virtualized cellular networks with device-to-device communications," IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., vol. 65, no. 11, pp. 9319-9329, Nov. 2016.
10. "Mobile-edge computing - introductory technical white paper," European Telecommunications Standards Institute, Tech. Rep., Sep. 2014, accessed Mar. 27, 2017. [Online]. Available: https://portal.etsi.org/
11. D. Liu and C. Yang, "Energy efficiency of downlink networks with caching at base stations," IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 907-922, Apr. 2016.
12. E. Bastuǧ, M. Kountouris, M. Bennis, and M. Debbah, "On the delay of geographical caching methods in two-tiered heterogeneous networks," in Proc. IEEE 17th Int. Workshop Signal Process. Advances Wirel. Commun., Aug. 2016, pp. 1-6.
13. R. Wang, X. Peng, J. Zhang, and K. B. Letaief, "Mobility-aware caching for content-centric wireless networks: Modeling and methodology," IEEE Commun. Mag., vol. 54, no. 8, pp. 77-83, Aug. 2016.
14. L. Yin and G. Cao, "Supporting cooperative caching in ad hoc networks," IEEE Trans. Mobile Comput., vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 77-89, Jan. 2006.
15. C.-Y. Chow, H. V. Leong, and A. T. Chan, "GroCoca: Group-based peer-to-peer cooperative caching in mobile environment," IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 179-191, Jan. 2007.
16. S. Chen, F. Qin, B. Hu, X. Li, and Z. Chen, "User-centric ultra-dense networks for 5G: Challenges, methodologies, and directions," IEEE Commun. Mag., vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 78-85, Apr. 2016.
17. W. Bao and B. Liang, "Stochastic geometric analysis of handoffs in user-centric cooperative wireless networks," in Proc. IEEE INFOCOM, Apr. 2016, pp. 1-9.
18. W. Song and W. Zhuang, "Performance analysis of probabilistic multipath transmission of video streaming traffic over multi-radio wireless devices," IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 1554-1564, Apr. 2012.
19. W. Nie, F. C. Zheng, X. Wang, W. Zhang, and S. Jin, "User-centric cross-tier base station clustering and cooperation in heterogeneous networks: Rate improvement and energy saving," IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., vol. 34, no. 5, pp. 1192-1206, May 2016.
20. J. Song, H. Song, and W. Choi, "Optimal caching placement of caching system with helpers," in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Commun., Jun. 2015, pp. 1825-1830.
21. Z. Chen, J. Lee, T. Q. S. Quek, and M. Kountouris, "Cooperative caching and transmission design in cluster-centric small cell networks," IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 3401-3415, May 2017.
22. J. He and W. Song, "Optimizing video request routing in mobile networks with built-in content caching," IEEE Trans. Mobile Comput., vol. 15, no. 7, pp. 1714-1727, Jul. 2016.
23. J. Gong, S. Zhou, Z. Zhou, and Z. Niu, "Policy optimization for content push via energy harvesting small cells in heterogeneous networks," IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 717-729, Feb. 2017.
24. X. Li, X. Wang, and V. C. Leung, "Weighted network traffic offloading in cache-enabled heterogeneous networks," in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Commun., May 2016, pp. 1-6.
25. K. Shanmugam, N. Golrezaei, A. G. Dimakis, A. F. Molisch, and G. Caire, "Femtocaching: Wireless content delivery through distributed caching helpers," IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. 59, no. 12, pp. 8402-8413, Dec. 2013.
26. J. Li, Y. Chen, Z. Lin, W. Chen, B. Vucetic, and L. Hanzo, "Distributed caching for data dissemination in the downlink of heterogeneous networks," IEEE Trans. Commun., vol. 63, no. 10, pp. 3553-3568, Oct. 2015.
27. T. X. Tran and D. Pompili, "Octopus: A cooperative hierarchical caching strategy for cloud radio access networks," in Proc. IEEE 13th Int. Conf. Mobile Ad Hoc Sens. Syst., Oct. 2016, pp. 154-162.
28. W. Jiang, G. Feng, and S. Qin, "Optimal cooperative content caching and delivery policy for heterogeneous cellular networks," IEEE Trans. Mobile Comput., vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 1382-1393, May 2017.
29. F. Zhang, et al., "Edgebuffer: Caching and prefetching content at the edge in the mobilityfirst future internet architecture," in Proc. IEEE 16th Int. Symp. World Wireless Mobile Multimedia Netw., Jun. 2015, pp. 1-9.
30. X. Vasilakos, V. A. Siris, and G. C. Polyzos, "Addressing niche demand based on joint mobility prediction and content popularity caching," Comput. Netw., vol. 110, pp. 306-323, 2016.
31. S. H. Chae and W. Choi, "Caching placement in stochastic wireless caching helper networks: Channel selection diversity via caching," IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 15, no. 10, pp. 6626-6637, Oct. 2016.
32. B. Serbetci and J. Goseling, "On optimal geographical caching in heterogeneous cellular networks," in Proc. IEEE Wireless Commun. Netw. Conf., Mar. 2017, pp. 1-7.
33. S. Zhang, N. Zhang, P. Yang, and X. Shen, "Cost-effective cache deployment in mobile heterogeneous networks," IEEE Trans. Vehicular Technol., vol. 66, no. 12, pp. 11264-11276, Dec. 2017.
34. Y. Wang, X. Tao, X. Zhang, and G. Mao, "Joint caching placement and user association for minimizing user download delay," IEEE Access, vol. 4, pp. 8625-8633, 2016.
35. A. Khreishah, J. Chakareski, and A. Gharaibeh, "Joint caching, routing, and channel assignment for collaborative small-cell cellular networks," IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., vol. 34, no. 8, pp. 2275-2284, Aug. 2016.
36. M. Ismail, A. Abdrabou, and W. Zhuang, "Cooperative decentralized resource allocation in heterogeneous wireless access medium," IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 714-724, Feb. 2013.
37. J. G. Andrews, F. Baccelli, and R. K. Ganti, "A tractable approach to coverage and rate in cellular networks," IEEE Trans. Commun., vol. 59, no. 11, pp. 3122-3134, Nov. 2011.
38. D. J. MacKay, "Fountain codes," IEEE Proc. Commun., vol. 152, no. 6, pp. 1062-1068, Dec. 2005.
39. V. R. Cadambe and S. A. Jafar, "Interference alignment and degrees of freedom of the k-user interference channel," IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. 54, no. 8, pp. 3425-3441, Aug. 2008.
40. K. Gomadam, V. R. Cadambe, and S. A. Jafar, "A distributed numerical approach to interference alignment and applications to wireless interference networks," IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. 57, no. 6, pp. 3309-3322, Jun. 2011.
41. E. W. Weisstein, "Euler-Mascheroni constant," 2002. [Online]. Available: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Euler-Mascheroni Constant.html, Accessed on: Oct. 10, 2017
42. A. Krause and D. Golovin, Submodular Function Maximization. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge Univ. Press, Feb. 2014.
43. M. Cha, H. Kwak, P. Rodriguez, Y.-Y. Ahn, and S. Moon, "Analyzing the video popularity characteristics of large-scale user generated content systems," IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw., vol. 17, no. 5, pp. 1357-1370, Oct. 2009.