Physical-Layer Schemes for Wireless Coded Caching

DOI10.1109/TIT.2018.2888615zbMath1431.94007arXiv1711.05969OpenAlexW2963664701MaRDI QIDQ5223970

Babak. H. Khalaj, Seyed Pooya Shariatpanahi, Giuseppe Caire

Publication date: 19 July 2019

Published in: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate the potentials of applying the coded caching paradigm in wireless networks. In order to do this, we investigate physical layer schemes for downlink transmission from a multiantenna transmitter to several cache-enabled users. As the baseline scheme we consider employing coded caching on top of max-min fair multicasting, which is shown to be far from optimal at high SNR values. Our first proposed scheme, which is near-optimal in terms of DoF, is the natural extension of multiserver coded caching to Gaussian channels. As we demonstrate, its finite SNR performance is not satisfactory, and thus we propose a new scheme in which the linear combination of messages is implemented in the finite field domain, and the one-shot precoding for the MISO downlink is implemented in the complex field. While this modification results in the same near-optimal DoF performance, we show that this leads to significant performance improvement at finite SNR. Finally, we extend our scheme to the previously considered cache-enabled interference channels, and moreover, we provide an Ergodic rate analysis of our scheme. Our results convey the important message that although directly translating schemes from the network coding ideas to wireless networks may work well at high SNR values, careful modifications need to be considered for acceptable finite SNR performance.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.05969

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Signal theory (characterization, reconstruction, filtering, etc.) (94A12) Communication theory (94A05)

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