Performance Analysis of Heterogeneous Cellular Caching Networks With Overlapping Small Cells
2022 (English)In: IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, ISSN 0018-9545, E-ISSN 1939-9359, Vol. 71, no 2, p. 1941-1951Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Caching at network edges has attracted more and more research interests recently for the purpose of alleviating the network traffic pressure especially in backhaul links and improving user experience. We study Heterogeneous Cellular Caching Networks (HCCNs) consisting of macro cells in which N small cell base stations (SBSs) equipped with cache memory operate in conjunction with the macro cell base station (MBS). We provide closed-form expressions of the MBS and SBSs utilization factors and average user-experienced-delay in HCCNs with overlapping coverage regions, considering general traffic models for the request arrivals based on the Independent Reference Model (IRM) and renewal traffic models. Moreover, we propose a novel caching scheme in HCCNs, namely Cooperative Most Popular Caching (CMPC), which outperforms the existing schemes in terms of delay. Subsequently, we present the bandwidth assignment problem aiming to minimize the average user-experienced-delay under stability and cache size constraints in HCCNs with overlapping coverage regions and stochastic request arrivals. Finally, the analytic results are validated through numerical results and real trace-driven experiments.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2022. Vol. 71, no 2, p. 1941-1951
Keywords [en]
Stochastic processes, Delays, Downlink, Libraries, Queueing analysis, Numerical stability, Base stations, Heterogeneous cellular networks, caching, queuing analysis, latency, overlapping small cells
National Category
Communication Systems Telecommunications
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-309803DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2021.3132648ISI: 000756861400066Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85121341420OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-309803DiVA, id: diva2:1644477
Note
QC 20220314
2022-03-142022-03-142022-06-25Bibliographically approved