Paper Info
Title
A provably efficient online collaborative caching algorithm for multicell-coordinated systems
Abstract
Caching at the base stations brings the contents closer to the users, reduces the traffic through the backhaul links, and reduces the delay experienced by the cellular users. The cellular network operator may charge the content providers for caching their contents. Moreover, content providers may lose their users if the users are not getting their desired quality of service, such as maximum tolerable delay in Video on Demand services. In this paper, we study the collaborative caching problem for a multicell-coordinated system from the point of view of minimizing the total cost paid by the content providers. We formulate the problem as an Integer Linear Program and prove its NP-completeness. We also provide an online caching algorithm that does not require any knowledge about the contents popularities. We prove that the online algorithm achieves a competitive ratio of O(log (n)), and we show that the best competitive ratio that any online algorithm can achieve is (log (n) / log log (n)). Therefore, our proposed caching algorithm is provably efficient. Through simulations, we show that our online algorithm performs very close to the optimal offline collaborative scheme, and can outperform it when contents popularities are not properly estimated.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/TMC.2015.2474364
IEEE Trans. Mob. Comput.
Keywords
Field
DocType
Base stations,Collaboration,Mobile computing,Internet,Delays,Optimization,Complexity theory
Integer,Base station,Online algorithm,Backhaul (telecommunications),Computer science,Computer network,Algorithm,Quality of service,Linear programming,Cellular network,Distributed computing,Competitive analysis
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
abs/1509.02911
8
1536-1233
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
27
0.95
20
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ammar Gharaibeh1825.71
Abdallah Khreishah257051.97
Bo Ji310712.68
Moussa Ayyash491736.37