Joint Multicast and Unicast Beamforming for Coded Caching

In this paper, we consider a multicell system with cache-equipped base stations (BSs) and users. A coded caching scheme is employed at user ends such that multiple requested file contents can be combined and encoded together at the BS, and decoded successfully at the users. The BSs can then multicas...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on communications Vol. 66; no. 8; pp. 3354 - 3367
Main Authors: Zhong, Shan, Wang, Xiaodong
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: New York IEEE 01.08.2018
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects:
Array signal processing
Base stations
Beamforming
Caching
Coded caching
Coding
Computer simulation
coordinated multi-cell
Decoding
Encoding
max-min fairness
MIMO communication
Multicast
networked MIMO
Riemannian conjugate gradient algorithm
Unicast
Wireless communication
ISSN:0090-6778, 1558-0857
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Summary:In this paper, we consider a multicell system with cache-equipped base stations (BSs) and users. A coded caching scheme is employed at user ends such that multiple requested file contents can be combined and encoded together at the BS, and decoded successfully at the users. The BSs can then multicast the coded cached content and unicast the uncached content to users. Two different system models are proposed based on different levels of BS cooperation. We formulate the joint multicast and unicast beamformer design problem to maximize the weighted user fairness rate subject to the per BS power constraint. We propose a Riemannian conjugate gradient algorithm to solve the problem, which operates on the multi-sphere manifold of the parameter space and has a low computational complexity but better performance compared with the existing semi-definite relaxation methods. Extensive simulation results are provided to demonstrate the performance of the proposed systems.
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ISSN:0090-6778
1558-0857
DOI:10.1109/TCOMM.2018.2815017