When Exploiting Individual User Preference Is Beneficial for Caching at Base Stations
Dong Liu, Chenyang Yang, Victor C.M. Leung

TL;DR
This paper demonstrates that optimizing caching policies at base stations by leveraging individual user preferences, spatial locality, and user activity levels can significantly enhance network performance and fairness compared to traditional methods.
Contribution
It introduces optimal caching strategies that consider heterogeneous user preferences and activity levels, addressing limitations of previous assumptions.
Findings
Exploiting user preferences improves user fairness.
Considering spatial locality enhances network performance.
Optimized caching reduces average and maximum download delays.
Abstract
Most of prior works optimize caching policies based on the following assumptions: 1) every user initiates request according to content popularity, 2) all users are with the same active level, and 3) users are uniformly located in the considered region. In practice, these assumptions are often not true. In this paper, we explore the benefit of optimizing caching policies for base stations by exploiting user preference considering the spatial locality and different active level of users. We obtain optimal caching policies, respectively minimizing the download delay averaged over all file requests and user locations in the network (namely network average delay), and minimizing the maximal weighted download delay averaged over the file requests and location of each user (namely maximal weighted user average delay), as well as minimizing the weighted sum of both. The analysis and simulation…
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Taxonomy
TopicsCaching and Content Delivery · Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks · Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies
