Power Allocation for Cache-Aided Small-Cell Networks With Limited Backhaul

Abstract

Cache-aided small-cell network is becoming an effective method to improve the transmission rate and reduce the backhaul load. Due to the limited capacity of backhaul, less power should be allocated to users whose requested contents do not exist in the local caches to maximize the performance of caching. In this paper, power allocation is considered to improve the performance of cache-aided small-cell networks with limited backhaul, where interference alignment is used to manage interferences among users. Specifically, three power allocation algorithms are proposed. First, we come up with a power allocation algorithm to maximize the sum transmission rate of the network, considering the limitation of backhaul. Second, to have more users meet their rate requirements, a power allocation algorithm to minimize the average outage probability is also proposed. Third, to further improve the users’ experience, a power allocation algorithm that maximizes the average satisfaction of all users is also designed. Simulation results are provided to show the effectiveness of the three proposed power allocation algorithms for cache-aided small-cell networks with limited backhaul.