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To reduce the network traffic and service delay in next-generation networks, popular contents (videos and music) are proposed to be temporarily stored in the cache located at the edge nodes such as base stations. The challenging issue in the caching process is to correctly predict the popular contents to store, since the more popular the contents, the more reduction in the network traffic and the service delay occurs. Furthermore, network virtualization proposes an existing cellular network to decouple into infrastructure providers (InPs) and mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) to reduce capital and operation costs. In this architecture, MVNOs lease the physical resources (network capacity and cache storage) from InPs, the owner of the resources, to provide services to their users. On the one hand, if an MVNO leases more resources than necessary, they will be wasted. On the other hand, if an MVNO leases …