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Mobility-Aware Data Caching to Improve D2D Communications in Heterogeneous Networks

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ELECTRONICS
卷 11, 期 21, 页码 -

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/electronics11213434

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caching; data offloading; D2D; mobility; cache hits

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In this study, we propose a mobility-aware data caching approach for offloading data through device-to-device (D2D) communication. By observing users' connectivity patterns and considering users' data preferences, our proposed mechanism achieves better performance in terms of data offloading gain and cache hit rate compared to other commonly used caching schemes.
User Equipment (UE) is equipped with limited cache resources that can be utilized to offload data traffic through device-to-device (D2D) communications. Data caching at a UE level has the potential to significantly alleviate data traffic burden from the backhaul link. Moreover, in wireless networks, users exhibit mobility that poses serious challenges to successful data transmission via D2D communications due to intermittent connectivity among users. Users' mobility can be exploited to efficiently cache contents by observing connectivity patterns among users. Therefore, it is crucial to develop an efficient data caching mechanism for UE while taking into account users' mobility patterns. In this work, we propose a mobility-aware data caching approach to enhance data offloading via D2D communication. First, we model users' connectivity patterns. Then, contents are cached in UE' cache resources based on users' data preferences. In addition, we also take into account signal-to-interference and noise ratio (SINR) requirements of the users. Hence, our proposed caching mechanism exploits connectivity patterns of users to perform data placement based on users' own demands and neighboring users to enhance data offloading via cache resources. We performed extensive simulations to investigate the performance of our proposed mobility-aware data caching mechanism. The performance of our proposed caching mechanism is compared to most deployed data caching mechanisms, while taking into account the dynamic nature of the wireless channel and the interference experienced by the users. From the obtained results, it is evident that our proposed approach achieves 14%, 16%, and 11% higher data offloading gain than the least frequently used, the Zipf-based probabilistic, and the random caching schemes in case of an increasing number of users, cache capacity, and number of contents, respectively. Moreover, we also analyzed cache hit rates, and our proposed scheme achieves 8% and 5% higher cache hit rate than the least frequently used, the Zipf-based probabilistic, and the random caching schemes in case of an increasing number of contents and cache capacity, respectively. Hence, our proposed caching mechanism brings significant improvement in data sharing via D2D communications.

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