Title
Delay Analysis and Optimization in Cache-enabled Multi-Cell Cooperative Networks.
Abstract
Caching at the base stations (BSs) has been widely adopted to reduce the delivery delay and alleviate the backhaul traffic between BSs and the core network. In this paper, we consider a collaborative content caching scheme among BSs in cache-enabled multi-cell cooperative networks, where the requested contents can be obtained from the associated BS, the other collaborative BSs or the core network. Novelly, we model the stochastic request traffic and derive a closed form expression for the average delay per request based on multi-class processor sharing queuing theory. We then formulate a cooperative caching optimization problem of minimizing the average delay under the finite cache size constraint at BSs and show it to be at least NP-complete. Furthermore, we prove it equivalent to the maximization of a monotone submodular function subject to matroid constraints, allowing us to adopt the common greedy algorithm with 1/2 performance guarantee. A heuristic greedy caching strategy is also developed, achieving a better performance than the conventional greedy solution. Simulation results verify the accuracy of the analytical results and demonstrate the performance gains obtained by our proposed caching scheme.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/GLOCOM.2016.7841723
IEEE Global Communications Conference
DocType
Volume
ISSN
Conference
abs/1605.00769
2334-0983
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.40
14
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yaping Sun1233.78
Zhiyong Chen237132.33
Hui Liu3996136.41