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2016 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMMUNICATIONS (ICC)
Volume -, Issue -, Pages 551-556Publisher
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2016.7510749
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Caching popular contents at base stations (BSs) is a promising way to unleash the potential of cellular heterogeneous networks (HetNets), where backhaul has become a bottleneck. In this paper, we compare a cache-enabled HetNet where a tier of multi-antenna macro BSs is overlaid by a tier of helper nodes having caches but no backhaul with a conventional HetNet where the macro BSs tier is overlaid by a tier of pico BSs with limitedcapacity backhaul. We resort stochastic geometry theory to derive the area spectral efficiencies (ASEs) of these two kinds of HetNets and obtain the closed-form expressions under a special case. We use numerical results to show that the helper density is only 1/4 of the pico BS density to achieve the same target ASE, and the helper density can be further reduced by increasing cache capacity. With given total cache capacity within an area, there exists an optimal helper node density that maximizes the ASE.
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