A Distributed User Association and Resource Allocation Method in Cache-Enabled Small Cell Networks

Cache-enabled small cell networks have been regarded as a promising approach for network operators to cope with the explosive data traffic growth in future 5 G networks. However, the user association and resource allocation mechanism has not been thoroughly studied under given content placement situation. In this paper, we formulate the joint optimization problem of user association and resource allocation as a mixed integer nonlinear programming(MINLP) problem aiming at deriving a balance between the total utility of data rates and the total data rates retrieved from caches. To solve this problem, we propose a distributed relaxing-rounding method. Simulation results demonstrate that the distributed relaxing-rounding method outperforms traditional max-SINR method and range-expansion method in terms of both total utility of data rates and total data rates retrieved from caches in practical scenarios. In addition, effects of storage and backhaul capacities on the performance are also studied.

An Algorithm Based on Markov Chain to Improve Edge Cache Hit Ratio for Blockchain-Enabled IoT

Reasonable allocation of storage and computing resources is the basis of building big data system.With the development of IoT(Internet of Things),more data will be brought.A three-layer architecture includes smart devices layer,edge cloud layer and blockchain-based distributed cloud layer.Blockchain is used in IoT for building a distributed decentralize P2P architecture to deal with the secure issue while edge computing deals with increasing volume of data.Edge caching is one of the important application scenarios.In order to allocate edge cache resources reasonably,to improve the quality of service and to reduce the waste of bandwidth resources,this paper proposes a content selection algorithm of edge cache nodes.The algorithm adopts markov chain model,improves the utilization of cache space and reduces the content transmission delay.The hierarchical caching strategy is adopted and the secondary cache stores slides of contents to expand the coverage of cached content and to reduce user waiting time.Regional node cooperation is adopted to expand the cache space and to support the regional preference of cache content.Compared with the classical substitution algorithm,simulation results show that the algorithm in this paper has higher cache hit ratio and higher space utilization.

Intelligent Resources Management System Design in Information Centric Networking

Information centric networking(ICN) is a new network architecture that is centred on accessing content. It aims to solve some of the problems associated with IP networks, increasing content distribution capability and improving users' experience. To analyse the requests' patterns and fully utilize the universal cached contents, a novel intelligent resources management system is proposed, which enables effi cient cache resource allocation in real time, based on changing user demand patterns. The system is composed of two parts. The fi rst part is a fi ne-grain traffi c estimation algorithm called Temporal Poisson traffi c prediction(TP2) that aims at analysing the traffi c pattern(or aggregated user requests' demands) for different contents. The second part is a collaborative cache placement algorithm that is based on traffic estimated by TP2. The experimental results show that TP2 has better performance than other comparable traffi c prediction algorithms and the proposed intelligent system can increase the utilization of cache resources and improve the network capacity.