Coded multicast fronthauling and edge caching for multi-connectivity transmission in fog radio access networks

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

12-19-2017

Abstract

This work studies the advantages of coded multicasting for the downlink of a Fog Radio Access Network (F-RAN) system equipped with a multicast fronthaul link. In this system, a control unit (CU) in the baseband processing unit (BBU) pool is connected to distributed edge nodes (ENs) through a multicast fronthaul link of finite capacity, and the ENs have baseband processing and caching capabilities. Each user equipment (UE) requests a file in a content library which is available at the CU, and the requested files are served by the closest ENs based on the cached contents and on the information received on the multicast fronthaul link. The performance of coded multicast fronthauling is investigated in terms of the delivery latency of the requested contents under the assumption of pipelined transmission on the fronthaul and edge links and of single-user encoding and decoding strategies based on the hard transfer of files on the fronthaul links. Extensive numerical results are provided to validate the advantages of the coded multicasting scheme compared to uncoded unicast and multicast strategies.

Identifier

85044229370 (Scopus)

ISBN

[9781509030088]

Publication Title

IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications Spawc

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1109/SPAWC.2017.8227675

First Page

1

Last Page

5

Volume

2017-July

Grant

2015R1C1A1A01051825

Fund Ref

Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning

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