Energy-efficient deployment in wireless edge caching

In this chapter, we investigate the performance of edge-caching wireless networks by taking into account the caching capability when designing the signal transmission. We consider hierarchical caching systems in which the contents can be prefetched at both user terminals or the base station and investigate the energy performance under two notable uncoded and coded caching strategies. The backhaul and access throughputs are derived for both caching policies for arbitrary values of base station and user cache sizes from which closed-form expressions for the corresponding system energy efficiency (EE) are obtained. Furthermore, we propose two optimization problems to maximize the system EE and minimize the content delivery time subject to some given quality of service requirements.