Cellular Offloading via Downlink Cache Placement

In this paper, the downlink file transmission within a finite lifetime is optimized with the assistance of wireless cache nodes. Specifically, the number of requests within the lifetime of one file is modeled as a Poisson point process. The base station multicasts files to downlink users and the selected the cache nodes, so that the cache nodes can help to forward the files in the next file request. Thus we formulate the downlink transmission as a Markov decision process (MDP) with random number of stages, where transmission power and time on each transmission are the control policy. Due to random number of file transmissions, we first proposed a revised Bellman's equation, where the optimal control policy can be derived. In…