Full-Duplex Enabled Mobile Edge Caching: From Distributed to Cooperative Caching

in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (2020)

Mobile edge caching (MEC) has received much attention as a promising technique to overcome the stringent latency and data hungry requirements in future generation wireless networks. Meanwhile, full-duplex ... [more ▼]

Mobile edge caching (MEC) has received much attention as a promising technique to overcome the stringent latency and data hungry requirements in future generation wireless networks. Meanwhile, full-duplex (FD) transmission can potentially double the spectral efficiency by allowing a node to receive and transmit in the same time/frequency block simultaneously. In this paper, we investigate the delivery time performance of full-duplex enabled MEC (FD-MEC) systems, in which the users are served by distributed edge nodes (ENs), which operate in FD mode and are equipped with a limited storage memory. Firstly, we analyse the FD-MEC with different levels of cooperation among the ENs and take into account a realistic model of self-interference cancellation. Secondly, we propose a framework to minimize the system delivery time of FD-MEC under both linear and optimal precoding designs. Thirdly, to deal with the non-convexity of the formulated problems, two iterative optimization algorithms are proposed based on the inner approximation method, whose convergence is analytically guaranteed. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed designs are demonstrated via extensive numerical results. It is shown that the cooperative scheme mitigates inter-user and self interference significantly better than the distributed scheme at an expense of inter-EN cooperation. In addition, we show that minimum mean square error (MMSE)-based precoding design achieves the best performance-complexity trade-off, compared with the zero-forcing and optimal designs. [less ▲]

Energy-efficient Trajectory Design for UAV-enabled Wireless Communications with Latency Constraints

Scientific Conference (2019, November 03)

This paper studies a new energy-efficient unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless communications, where the UAV acts as a flying base station (BS) to serve the ground users (GUs) within some ... [more ▼]

This paper studies a new energy-efficient unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless communications, where the UAV acts as a flying base station (BS) to serve the ground users (GUs) within some predetermined latency limitations, e.g., requested timeout (RT). Our goal is to design the UAV trajectory to minimize the total energy consumption while satisfying the RT requirement from every GU, which is accomplished via two consecutive subproblems: traveling time minimization and energy minimization problems. Firstly, we propose two exhaustive search and heuristic algorithms based on the traveling salesman problem with time window (TSPTW) in order to minimize the UAV’s traveling time without violating the GUs’ RT requirements. While the exhaustive algorithm achieves the best performance at a high computation cost, the heuristic algorithm achieves a trade-off between the performance and complexity. Secondly, we minimize the total energy consumption, for a given trajectory, via a joint optimization of the UAV’s velocity along subsequent hops. Finally, numerical results are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed algorithms. In particular, it is shown that the proposed solutions outperform the reference in terms of both energy consumption and outage performance. [less ▲]

Learning-Assisted Optimization for Energy-Efficient Scheduling in Deadline-Aware NOMA Systems

in IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking (2019)

Learning-Based Resource Allocation: Efficient Content Delivery Enabled by Convolutional Neural Network

in IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC) 2019 (2019, July)

On the Successful Delivery Probability of Full-Duplex-Enabled Mobile Edge Caching

in IEEE Communications Letters (2019)

Energy Efficient Design for Coded Caching Delivery Phase

in 2019 IEEE International Conference on Recent Advances in Signal Processing, Telecommunications & Computing (SigTelCom) (2019)

Efficient 5G Edge Caching Over Satellite

Scientific Conference (2018, October)

The fifth generation (5G) wireless networks have to deal with the high data rate and stringent latency requirements due to the massive invasion of connected devices and data-hungry applications. Edge ... [more ▼]

The fifth generation (5G) wireless networks have to deal with the high data rate and stringent latency requirements due to the massive invasion of connected devices and data-hungry applications. Edge caching is a promising technique to overcome these challenges by prefetching the content closer to the end users at the edge node's local storage. In this paper, we analyze the performance of edge caching 5G networks with the aid of satellite communication systems. Firstly, we investigate the satellite-aided edge caching systems in two promising use cases: a) in dense urban areas, and b) in sparsely populated regions, e.g., rural areas. Secondly, we study the effectiveness of satellite systems via the proposed satellite-aided caching algorithm, which can be used in three configurations: i) mono-beam satellite, ii) multi-beam satellite, and iii) hybrid mode. Thirdly, the proposed caching algorithm is evaluated by using both empirical Zipf-distribution data and the more realistic Movielens dataset. [less ▲]

Energy Minimization for Cache-Assisted Content Delivery Networks With Wireless Backhaul

in IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (2018), 7(3), 332-335

Content caching is an efficient technique to reduce delivery latency and system congestion during peak-traffic time by bringing data closer to end users. In this letter, we investigate energy-efficiency ... [more ▼]

Content caching is an efficient technique to reduce delivery latency and system congestion during peak-traffic time by bringing data closer to end users. In this letter, we investigate energy-efficiency performance of cache-assisted content delivery networks with wireless backhaul by taking into account cache capability when designing the signal transmission. We consider multi-layer caching and the performance in cases when both base station and users are capable of storing content data in their local cache. Specifically, we analyze energy consumption in both backhaul and access links under two uncoded and coded caching strategies. Then two optimization problems are formulated to minimize total energy cost for the two caching strategies while satisfying some given quality of service constraint. We demonstrate via numerical results that the uncoded caching achieves higher energy efficiency than the coded caching in the small user cache size regime. [less ▲]

Latency Minimization for Content Delivery Networks with Wireless Edge Caching

in 2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) (2018, May)

Cache-Aided Millimeter Wave Ad-Hoc Networks

Scientific Conference (2018, April 16)

In this paper, we investigate the performance of cache enabled millimeter wave (mmWave) ad-hoc network, where randomly distributed nodes are supported by a cache memory. Specifically, we study the optimal ... [more ▼]

In this paper, we investigate the performance of cache enabled millimeter wave (mmWave) ad-hoc network, where randomly distributed nodes are supported by a cache memory. Specifically, we study the optimal caching placement at the desirable mmWave node using a network model that accounts for the uncertainties in node locations and blockages. We then characterize the average success probability of content delivery. As a desirable side effect, certain factors like the density of nodes and increased antenna gain, can significantly increase the cache hit ratio in mmWave networks. However, a trade-off between the cache hit probability and the average successful content delivery probability with respect to the density of nodes is presented. [less ▲]