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Caching at small base stations (SBSs) has demonstrated significant benefits in alleviating the backhaul requirement in heterogeneous cellular networks (HetNets). While many existing works focus on what contents to cache at each SBS, an equally important but much less investigated problem is what contents to deliver given the cache status and user requests. In this paper, we study the optimal content delivery strategy in cache-enabled HetNets by taking into account the inherent multicast capability of wireless medium. We establish a content-centric request queue model and then formulate a stochastic multicast scheduling problem to jointly minimize the average network delay and power costs. This stochastic optimization problem is an infinite horizon average cost Markov decision process (MDP), which is well known to be challenging. By using relative value iteration algorithm and the special properties of the …