Optimal probabilistic caching with wireless caching helpers

Abstract

A success of file transmission is determined by channel quality from wireless caching helpers in wireless caching networks. According to the caching strategy (what and how cache the files) of the caching helpers, the channel quality dynamically varies for given network realization, which can be termed as channel selection diversity via caching. This paper analytically identifies the channel selection diversity gain via caching placement and proposes the optimal probabilistic caching placement in stochastic wireless caching helpers with sophisticated considerations of wireless fading channel and arbitrary memory size. With stochastic geometry, we derive the optimal caching probabilities in closed form to maximize the average success probability of file transmission and propose an efficient algorithm to find the optimal solution. With simulations, we verify that the proposed caching placement is superior to the conventional caching placement such as the most popular file caching and uniform caching owing to the optimal control of the channel selection diversity gains for each file.