Exploiting the Unexploited of Coded Caching for Wireless Content Distribution: Detailed Theoretical Proofs

Abstract: Recent studies show that the coded caching technique can facilitate the wireless content distribution by mitigating the wireless traffic rate during the peak-traffic time, where the contents are partially prefetched to the local cache of mobile devices during the off-peak time. The remaining contents are then jointly coded and delivered in multicast, when many content requests are initiated in the peak-traffic time. The requested contents can be recovered from the local-prefetched and multicast data with requesters experiencing less congestions. However, the benefit of the coded caching scheme is still under estimated, where the potential gain by appropriate caching distribution is under exploited. In this paper, we propose a theoretical model to minimize the average wireless traffic rate required in the coded caching, for which the optimized caching distribution is derived with the content popularity distribution taken into account. In order to improve the computational efficiency for determining the appropriate caching distribution, we transform the objective function from the average wireless traffic rate into the average size of un-prefetched contents. We theoretically show the order optimality of the derived results from both the primal model and the relaxed one. Simulation results show that the coded caching performance can be further improved with the derived caching distribution.