User mobility has a large effect on optimal content placement in D2D caching networks. Since a typical user can communicate neighboring users who stay in the D2D communication area of the typical user, the optimal content placement should be changed according to the user mobility. Under consideration of randomness of incoming and outgoing users, we formulate an optimization problem to minimize the average data load of a BS. It is proved that minimization of the average data load of a BS can be transformed to maximization of a monotonic submodular function with a matroid constraint, for which a greedy algorithm can find near-optimal solutions. Moreover, when motions of neighboring users are rapid, the optimal content placement is derived in closed-form, aided by reasonable approximation and relaxation. In the high mobility regime, the optimal content placement is shown to cache partial amounts of the most popular contents.
This paper investigates optimal caching placement for wireless femto-caching network. The average bit error rate (BER) is formulated as a function of caching placement under wireless fading. To minimize the average BER, we propose a greedy algorithm finding optimal caching placement with low computational complexity. Exploiting the property of the optimal caching placement which we derive, the proposed algorithm can be performed over considerably reduced search space. Contrary to the optimal caching placement without consideration of wireless fading aspects, we reveal that optimal caching plac…
In this paper, we devise the optimal caching placement to maximize the offloading probability for a two-tier wireless caching system, where the helpers and a part of users have caching ability. The offloading comes from the local caching, D2D sharing and the helper transmission. In particular, to maximize the offloading probability we reformulate the caching placement problem for users and helpers into a difference of convex (DC) problem which can be effectively solved by DC programming. Moreover, we analyze the two extreme cases where there is only help-tier caching network and only user-tier…
Content delivery success in wireless caching helper networks depends mainly on cache-based channel selection diversity and network interference. For given channel fading and network geometry, both channel selection diversity and network interference dynamically vary according to what and how the caching helpers cache at their finite storage space. We study probabilistic content placement (or caching placement) to desirably control cache-based channel selection diversity and network interference in a stochastic wireless caching helper network, with sophisticated considerations of wireless fadin…
Network based on distributed caching of content is a new architecture to alleviate the ongoing explosive demands for rate of multi-media traffic. In caching networks, coded caching is a recently proposed technique that achieves significant performance gains compared to uncoded caching schemes. In this paper, we derive a lower bound on the average rate with a memory constraint for a family of caching allocation placement and a family of XOR cooperative delivery. The lower bound inspires us how placement and delivery affect the rate memory tradeoff. Based on the clues, we design a new placement …
Coded caching has been shown to result in significant throughput gains, but its gains were proved only by assuming a placement phase with no transmission cost. A free placement phase is, however, an unrealistic assumption that could stand as an obstacle towards delivering the promise of coded caching. In [1], we relaxed this assumption by introducing a general caching framework that captures transmission costs for both delivery and placement phases under general assumptions on varying network architectures, memory constraints, and traffic patterns. Here, we leverage this general framework and …
Coded caching schemes with low subpacketization and small transmission rate are desirable in practice due to the requirement of low implementation complexity and efficiency of the transmission. Placement delivery arrays (PDA in short) can be used to generate coded caching schemes. However, many known coded caching schemes have large memory ratios. In this paper, we realize that some schemes with low subpacketization generated by PDAs do not fully use the users' caching content to create multicasting opportunities and thus propose to overcome this drawback. As an application, we obtain two new …
For caching with nonuniform file popularity, we aim to characterize the memory-rate tradeoff under uncoded cache placement. We consider the recently proposed Modified Coded Caching Scheme (MCCS) with the optimized cache placement based on the popularity-first approach to minimize the average delivery rate. We introduce two information-theoretic lower bounds on the average rate for caching under uncoded placement. For $K = 2$ users, we show that the optimized MCCS attains the lower bound and is optimal for caching with uncoded placement. For general $K$ users with distinct file requests, the op…
We consider the coded caching problem with shared caches where several users share a cache, but each user has access to only a single cache. For this network, the fundamental limits of coded caching are known for centralized and decentralized settings under uncoded placement. In the centralized case, to achieve the gains offered by coded caching, one requires a sub-packetization which increases exponentially with the number of caches. The dedicated cache networks had a similar issue, and placement delivery arrays (PDAs) were introduced as a solution to it. Using the PDA framework, we propose a…
This paper studies the caching system of multiple cache-enabled users with random demands. Under nonuniform file popularity, we thoroughly characterize the optimal uncoded cache placement structure for the coded caching scheme (CCS). Formulating the cache placement as an optimization problem to minimize the average delivery rate, we identify the file group structure in the optimal solution. We show that, regardless of the file popularity distribution, there are \emph{at most three file groups} in the optimal cache placement{, where files within a group have the same cache placement}. We furthe…
Coded caching techniques have received significant attention lately due to their provable gains in reducing the cost of data delivery in wireless networks. These gains, however, have only been demonstrated under the assumption of a free placement phase. This unrealistic assumption poses a significant limitation, especially in cases where aggressive placement strategies can lead to a significant transmission cost that may even be higher than the corresponding cost of the delivery phase. In this paper, we relax this assumption and propose a general caching framework that captures the transmissio…
In this work, we consider a slight variant of well known coded caching problem, referred as multi-access coded caching problem, where each user has access to $z$ neighboring caches in a cyclic wrap-around way. We present a placement and delivery scheme for this problem, under the restriction of uncoded placement. Our work is a generalization of one of the cases considered in "Multi-access coded caching : gains beyond cache-redundancy" by B. Serbetci, E. Parrinello and P. Elia. To be precise, when our scheme is specialized to $z=\frac{K-1}{K γ}$, for any $K γ$, where $K$ is the number of users …
Coded caching is an emerging technique to reduce the data transmission load during the peak-traffic times. In such a scheme, each file in the data center or library is usually divided into a number of packets to pursue a low broadcasting rate based on the designed placements at each user's cache. However, the implementation complexity of this scheme increases as the number of packets increases. It is crucial to design a scheme with a small subpacketization level, while maintaining a relatively low transmission rate. It is known that the design of caches in users (i.e., the placement phase) and…
This work considers the multi-access caching system proposed by Hachem et al., where each user has access to L neighboring caches in a cyclic wrap-around fashion. We first propose a placement strategy called the consecutive cyclic placement, which achieves the maximal local caching gain. Then under the consecutive cyclic placement, we derive the optimal coded caching gain from the perspective of Placement Delivery Array (PDA), thus obtaining a lower bound on the rate of PDA. Finally, under the consecutive cyclic placement, we construct a class of PDA, leading to a multi-access coded caching sc…
We consider content caching between a service provider and multiple cache-enabled users, using the recently proposed modified coded caching scheme (MCCS) that provides an improved delivery strategy for random user requests. We develop the optimal cache placement solution for the MCCS with arbitrary cache size by formulating the cache placement as an optimization problem to minimize the average rate during the delivery phase under random user requests. Through reformulation, we show that the problem is a linear programming problem. By exploring the properties in the caching constraints, we obta…
Coded caching scheme provides us an effective framework to realize additional coded multicasting gain by exploiting coding into multiple transmitted signals. The goal of coded caching design is to jointly optimize the placement and delivery scheme so as to minimize the amount of transmitted coded signals. However, few research efforts consider multiple-round coded caching design problem, in which fixed and mobile users may coexist in one network different number of active users present in successive rounds. Obviously, such dynamic network configurations may lead to undesired frequent placement…
Recently, physical layer (PHY) caching has been proposed to exploit the dynamic side information induced by caches at base stations (BSs) to support Coordinated Multi-Point (CoMP) and achieve huge degrees of freedom (DoF) gains. Due to the limited cache storage capacity, the performance of PHY caching depends heavily on the cache content placement algorithm. In existing algorithms, the cache content placement is adaptive to the long-term popularity distribution in an offline manner. We propose an online PHY caching framework which adapts the cache content placement to microscopic spatial and t…
For a caching system with multiple users, we aim to characterize the memory-rate tradeoff for caching with uncoded cache placement, under nonuniform file popularity. Focusing on the modified coded caching scheme (MCCS) recently proposed by Yu, etal., we formulate the cache placement optimization problem for the MCCS to minimize the average delivery rate under nonuniform file popularity, restricting to a class of popularity-first placements. We then present two information-theoretic lower bounds on the average rate for caching with uncoded placement, one for general cache placements and the oth…
The coded caching scheme is an efficient technique as a solution to reduce the wireless network burden during the peak times in a Device-to-Device (D2D in short) communications. In a coded caching scheme, each file block should be divided into $F$ packets. It is meaningful to design a coded caching scheme with the rate and $F$ as small as possible, especially in the practice for D2D network. In this paper we first characterize coded caching scheme for D2D network by a simple array called D2D placement delivery array (DPDA in shot). Consequently some coded caching scheme for D2D network can be …
Edge caching can effectively reduce backhaul burden at core network and increase quality-ofservice at wireless edge nodes. However, the beneficial role of edge caching cannot be fully realized when the offloading link is in deep fade. Fortunately, the impairments induced by wireless propagation environments could be renovated by a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). In this paper, a new RIS-aided edge caching system is proposed, where a network cost minimization problem is formulated to optimize content placement at cache units, active beamforming at base station and passive phase shifti…
This work considers the coded caching problem with shared caches, where users share the caches, and each user gets access only to one cache. The user-to-cache association is assumed to be known at the server during the placement phase. We focus on the schemes derived using placement delivery arrays (PDAs). The PDAs were originally designed to address the sub-packetization bottleneck of coded caching in a dedicated cache setup. We observe that in the setup of this paper permuting the columns of the PDA results in schemes with different performance for the same problem, but the sub-packetization…
In this work, we study coded placement in caching systems where the users have unequal cache sizes and demonstrate its performance advantage. In particular, we propose a caching scheme with coded placement for three-user systems that outperforms the best caching scheme with uncoded placement. In our proposed scheme, users cache both uncoded and coded pieces of the files, and the coded pieces at the users with large memories are decoded using the unicast/multicast signals intended to serve users with smaller memories. Furthermore, we extend the proposed scheme to larger systems and show the red…
Caching is a promising solution to satisfy the ever increasing demands for the multi-media traffics. In caching networks, coded caching is a recently proposed technique that achieves significant performance gains over the uncoded caching schemes. However, to implement the coded caching schemes, each file has to be split into $F$ packets, which usually increases exponentially with the number of users $K$. Thus, designing caching schemes that decrease the order of $F$ is meaningful for practical implementations. In this paper, by reviewing the Ali-Niesen caching scheme, the placement delivery ar…
Caching is an efficient way to reduce network traffic congestion during peak hours, by storing some content at the user's local cache memory, even without knowledge of user's later demands. Maddah-Ali and Niesen proposed a two-phase (placement phase and delivery phase) coded caching strategy for broadcast channels with cache-aided users. This paper investigates the same model under the constraint that content is placed uncoded within the caches, that is, when bits of the files are simply copied within the caches. When the cache contents are uncoded and the users' demands are revealed, the cach…
In heterogeneous cellular networks with caching capability, due to mobility of users and storage constraints of small-cell base stations (SBSs), users may not be able to download all of their requested content from the SBSs within the delay deadline of the content. In that case, the users are directed to the macro-cell base station (MBS) in order to satisfy the service quality requirement. Coded caching is exploited here to minimize the amount of data downloaded from the MBS taking into account the mobility of the users as well as the popularity of the contents. An optimal distributed caching …
A new scheme for the problem of centralized coded caching with non-uniform demands is proposed. The distinguishing feature of the proposed placement strategy is that it admits equal sub-packetization for all files while allowing the users to allocate more cache to the files which are more popular. This creates natural broadcasting opportunities in the delivery phase which are simultaneously helpful for the users who have requested files of different popularities. For the case of two files, we propose a new delivery strategy based on interference alignment which enables each user to decode his …
Caching appears to be an efficient way to reduce peak hour network traffic congestion by storing some content at the user's cache without knowledge of later demands. Recently, Maddah-Ali and Niesen proposed a two-phase, placement and delivery phase, coded caching strategy for centralized systems (where coordination among users is possible in the placement phase), and for decentralized systems. This paper investigates the same setup under the further assumption that the number of users is larger than the number of files. By using the same uncoded placement strategy of Maddah-Ali and Niesen, a n…
A major practical limitation of the Maddah-Ali-Niesen coded caching techniques is their high subpacketization level. For the simple network with a single server and multiple users, Yan \emph{et al.} proposed an alternative scheme with the so-called placement delivery arrays (PDA). Such a scheme requires slightly higher transmission rates but significantly reduces the subpacketization level. In this paper, we extend the PDA framework and propose three low-subpacketization schemes for combination networks, i.e., networks with a single server, multiple relays, and multiple cache-aided users that …
The multi-antenna coded caching problem, where the server having $L$ transmit antennas communicating to $K$ users through a wireless broadcast link, is addressed. In the problem setting, the server has a library of $N$ files, and each user is equipped with a dedicated cache of capacity $M$. The idea of extended placement delivery array (EPDA), an array which consists of a special symbol $\star$ and integers in a set $\{1,2,\dots,S\}$, is proposed to obtain a novel solution for the aforementioned multi-antenna coded caching problem. From a $(K,L,F,Z,S)$ EPDA, a multi-antenna coded caching schem…
This paper considers a hierarchical caching system where a server connects with multiple mirror sites, each connecting with a distinct set of users, and both the mirror sites and users are equipped with caching memories. Although there already exist works studying this setup and proposing coded caching scheme to reduce transmission loads, two main problems are remained to address: 1) the optimal communication load under the uncoded placement for the first hop, denoted by $R_1$, is still unknown. 2) the previous schemes are based on Maddah-Ali and Niesen's data placement and delivery, which req…
In this paper, downlink delivery of popular content is optimized with the assistance of wireless cache nodes. Specifically, the requests of one file is modeled as a Poisson point process with finite lifetime, and two downlink transmission modes are considered: (1) the base station multicasts file segments to the requesting users and selected cache nodes; (2) the base station proactively multicasts file segments to the selected cache nodes without requests from users. Hence the cache nodes with decoded files can help to offload the traffic upon the next file request via other air interfaces, e.…
We consider a cache-aided wireless device-to-device (D2D) network under the constraint of one-shot delivery, where the placement phase is orchestrated by a central server. We assume that the devices' caches are filled with uncoded data, and the whole file database at the server is made available in the collection of caches. Following this phase, the files requested by the users are serviced by inter-device multicast communication. For such a system setting, we provide the exact characterization of load-memory trade-off, by deriving both the minimum average and the minimum peak sum-loads of lin…
Caching at base stations (BSs) is a promising way to offload traffic and eliminate backhaul bottleneck in heterogeneous networks (HetNets). In this paper, we investigate the optimal content placement maximizing the successful offloading probability in a cache-enabled HetNet where a tier of multi-antenna macro BSs (MBSs) is overlaid with a tier of helpers with caches. Based on probabilistic caching framework, we resort to stochastic geometry theory to derive the closed-form successful offloading probability and formulate the caching probability optimization problem, which is not concave in gene…
We consider a cache-aided wireless device-to-device (D2D) network of the type introduced by Ji, Caire, and Molisch [1], where the placement phase is orchestrated by a central server. We assume that the devices' caches are filled with uncoded data, and the whole content database is contained in the collection of caches. After the cache placement phase, the files requested by the users are serviced by inter-device multicast communication. For such a system setting, we provide the exact characterization of the optimal load-memory trade-off under the assumptions of uncoded placement and one-shot d…
We consider an unmanned aerial vehicle enabled (UAV-enabled) fog-radio access network (F-RAN) in which UAVs are considered as flying remote radio heads (RRH) equipped with caching and cooperative communications capabilities. We are mainly focus on probabilistic/randomized content placement strategy, and accordingly formulate the content placement as an optimization problem. We then study the efficiency of the proposed content placement by evaluating the average system capacity and its energy-efficiency. Our results indicate that cooperative communication plays an essential role in UAVenabled e…
In device-to-device (D2D)-enabled caching cellular networks, the user terminals (UTs) collaboratively store and share a large volume of popular contents from the base station (BS) for traffic offloading and delivery delay reduction. In this article, the multi-winner auction based caching placement in D2D-enabled caching cellular networks is investigated for UT edge caching incentive and content caching redundancy reduction. Firstly, a multi-winner once auction for UT edge caching is modeled which auctions multiple contents for multiple UTs. Then the optimization problem for content caching rev…
As the capacity demand of mobile applications keeps increasing, the backhaul network is becoming a bottleneck to support high quality of experience (QoE) in next-generation wireless networks. Content caching at base stations (BSs) is a promising approach to alleviate the backhaul burden and reduce user-perceived latency. In this paper, we consider a wireless caching network where all the BSs are connected to a central controller via backhaul links. In such a network, users can obtain the required data from candidate BSs if the data are pre-cached. Otherwise, the user data need to be first retr…
In this paper, the placement strategy design of coded caching in fog-radio access networks (F-RANs) is investigated. By considering time-variant content popularity, federated deep reinforcement learning is exploited to learn the placement strategy for our coded caching scheme. Initially, the placement problem is modeled as a Markov decision process (MDP) to capture the popularity variations and minimize the long-term content access delay. The reformulated sequential decision problem is solved by dueling double deep Q-learning (dueling DDQL). Then, federated learning is applied to learn the rel…
Coded caching scheme is a technique which reduce the load during peak traffic times in a wireless network system. Placement delivery array (PDA in short) was first introduced by Yan et al.. It can be used to design coded caching scheme. In this paper, we prove some lower bounds of PDA on the element and some lower bounds of PDA on the column. We also give some constructions for optimal PDA.
Caching is an efficient way to reduce peak-hour network traffic congestion by storing some contents at user's local cache without knowledge of later demands. Maddah-Ali and Niesen initiated a fundamental study of caching systems; they proposed a scheme (with uncoded cache placement and linear network coding delivery) that is provably optimal to within a factor 12. In this paper, by noticing that when the cache contents and the demands are fixed, the caching problem can be seen as an index coding problem, we show the optimality of Maddah-Ali and Niesen's scheme assuming that cache placement is …
We study the decentralized caching scheme in a two-layer network, which includes a sever, multiple helpers, and multiple users. Basically, the proposed caching scheme consists of two phases, i.e, placement phase and delivery phase. In the placement phase, each helper/user randomly and independently selects contents from the server and stores them into its memory. In the delivery phase, the users request contents from the server, and the server satisfies each user through a helper. Different from the existing caching scheme, the proposed caching scheme takes into account the pre-stored contents…
A decentralized coded caching scheme has been proposed by Maddah-Ali and Niesen, and has been shown to alleviate the load of networks. Recently, placement delivery array (PDA) was proposed to characterize the coded caching scheme. In this paper, a neural architecture is first proposed to learn the construction of PDAs. Our model solves the problem of variable size PDAs using mechanism of neural attention and reinforcement learning. It differs from the previous attempts in that, instead of using combined optimization algorithms to get PDAs, it uses sequence-to-sequence model to learn construct …
We consider a service cost minimization problem for resource-constrained small-cell networks with caching, where the challenge mainly stems from (i) the insufficient backhaul capacity and limited network bandwidth and (ii) the limited storing capacity of small-cell base stations (SBSs). Besides, the optimization problem is NP-hard since both the users' mobility patterns and content preferences are unknown. In this paper, we develop a novel mobility-aware joint routing and caching strategy to address the challenges. The designed framework divides the entire geographical area into small sections…
In the coded caching problem, as originally formulated by Maddah-Ali and Niesen, a server communicates via a noiseless shared broadcast link to multiple users that have local storage capability. In order for a user to decode its demanded file from the coded multicast transmission, the demands of all the users must be globally known, which may violate the privacy of the users. To overcome this privacy problem, Wan and Caire recently proposed several schemes that attain coded multicasting gain while simultaneously guarantee information theoretic privacy of the users' demands. In Device-to-Device…
As mobile services are shifting from "connection-centric" communications to "content-centric" communications, content-centric wireless networking emerges as a promising paradigm to evolve the current network architecture. Caching popular content at the wireless edge, including base stations (BSs) and user terminals (UTs), provides an effective approach to alleviate the heavy burden on backhaul links, as well as lowering delays and deployment costs. In contrast to wired networks, a unique characteristic of content-centric wireless networks (CCWNs) is the mobility of mobile users. While it has r…
The coded caching problem with secrecy constraint i.e., the users should not be able to gain any information about the content of the files that they did not demand, is known as the secretive coded caching problem. This was proposed by Ravindrakumar et al. in the paper titled ``Private Coded Caching'' that appeared in \emph{ IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security}, 2018 and is characterised by subpacketization levels growing exponentially with the number of users. In the context of coded caching without secrecy, coded caching schemes at subexponential subpacketization levels a…
We study the optimal geographic content placement problem for device-to-device (D2D) networks in which the content popularity follows the Zipf law. We consider a D2D caching model where the locations of the D2D users (caches) are modeled by a Poisson point process (PPP) and have limited communication range and finite storage. Unlike most related work which assumes independent placement of content, and does not capture the locations of the users, we model the spatial properties of the network including spatial correlation in terms of the cached content. We propose two novel spatial correlation …
In wireless networks, coded caching is an effective technique to reduce network congestion during peak traffic times. Recently, a new concept called placement delivery array (PDA) was proposed to characterize the coded caching scheme. So far, only one class of PDAs by Maddah-Ali and Niesen is known to be optimal. In this paper, we mainly focus on constructing optimal PDAs. Firstly, we derive some lower bounds. Next, we present several infinite classes of PDAs, which are shown to be optimal with respect to the new bounds.
This paper investigates a setup consisting of multiple transmitters serving multiple cache-enabled clients through a linear network, which covers both wired and wireless transmission situations. We investigate decentralized coded caching scenarios in which there is either no cooperation or limited cooperation between the clients at the cache content placement phase. For the fully decentralized caching case (i.e., no cooperation) we analyze the performance of the system in terms of the Coding Delay metric. Furthermore, we investigate a hybrid cache content placement scenario in which there are …
Caching at mobile devices, accompanied by device-to-device (D2D) communications, is one promising technique to accommodate the exponentially increasing mobile data traffic. While most previous works ignored user mobility, there are some recent works taking it into account. However, the duration of user contact times has been ignored, making it difficult to explicitly characterize the effect of mobility. In this paper, we adopt the alternating renewal process to model the duration of both the contact and inter-contact times, and investigate how the caching performance is affected by mobility. T…
Today's mobile data traffic is dominated by content-oriented traffic. Caching popular contents at the network edge can alleviate network congestion and reduce content delivery latency. This paper provides a comprehensive and unified study of caching and delivery techniques in wireless radio access networks (RANs) with caches at all edge nodes (ENs) and user equipments (UEs). Three cache-aided RAN architectures are considered: RANs without fronthaul, with dedicated fronthaul, and with wireless fronthaul. It first reviews in a tutorial nature how caching facilitates interference management in th…
This paper studies the fundamental limits of the shared-link coded caching problem with correlated files, where a server with a library of $N$ files communicates with $K$ users who can locally cache $M$ files. Given an integer $r \in [N]$, correlation is modeled as follows: each r-subset of files contains a unique common block. The tradeoff between the cache size and the average transmitted load is considered. First, a converse bound under the constraint of uncoded cache placement (i.e., each user directly stores a subset of the library bits) is derived. Then, a caching scheme for the case whe…
The decentralized coded caching was introduced in [M.~A. Maddah-Ali and U.~Niesen, `Decentralized coded caching attains order-optimal memory-rate tradeoff,' \emph{IEEE/ACM Trans. Networking}, vol.~23, no.~4, pp. 1029--1040, Aug. 2015] in which no coordination is required for the content placement. In this paper, with $N$ files and $K$ users, first it is shown that the decentralized coded caching scheme of Ali and Niesen is optimal for $N \geq K$ using techniques from index coding. Next the case when the shared link is error prone is considered. For this case, an optimal error correcting delive…
