Network Coding-based Content Distribution in Cellular Access Networks
English
Fiandrino, Claudio[University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > >]
Kliazovich, Dzmitry[University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > >]
Bouvry, Pascal[University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC) > Computer Science and Communications Research Unit (CSC) >]
IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2016
Yes
IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
May 2016
[en] Network coding ; Cellular networks ; Content distribution
[en] Mobile cloud applications have become extremely popular in the last years. Location-based services, navigation, online gaming and social networking are a representative set of
“always on” cloud applications in which the same or partially overlapping content is delivered to multiple users. Network coding is a well matching solution to improve content delivery. In this paper we propose the vNC-CELL technique, which uses network coding to combine information flows carrying the same or overlapping content that has to be delivered to co-located users. vNC-CELL executes coding functionalities in a mobile cloud through virtualization as these operations are computationally intensive if performed locally at the base station. Performance evaluation obtained from NS-3 simulations confirms vNC-CELL ability to improve network throughput and reduce download times for the users.