Resource trading for a small-cell caching system: A contract-theory based approach

T Liu, J Li, F Shu, Z Han - 2017 IEEE Wireless Communications …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Evidences indicate that wireless video traffic has played an important role in cellular
networks. Caching mechanisms which store popular contents into local small-cell base …

Design of contract-based trading mechanism for a small-cell caching system

T Liu, J Li, F Shu, M Tao, W Chen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, content-aware-enabled distributed caching relying on local small-cell base
stations (SBSs), namely, smallcell caching, has been intensively studied for reducing …

Pricing and resource allocation via game theory for a small-cell video caching system

J Li, H Chen, Y Chen, Z Lin, B Vucetic… - IEEE Journal on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Evidence indicates that downloading on-demand videos accounts for a dramatic increase in
data traffic over cellular networks. Caching popular videos in the storage of small-cell base …

Efficient video pricing and caching in heterogeneous networks

J Li, W Chen, M Xiao, F Shu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Evidence indicates that downloading on-demand videos accounts for a dramatic increase in
data traffic over cellular networks. Caching popular videos in the storage of small-cell base …

A commercial video-caching system for small-cell cellular networks using game theory

J Li, J Sun, Y Qian, F Shu, M Xiao, W Xiang - IEEE Access, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Evidence indicates that requesting video clips on demand accounts for a dramatic increase
in data traffic over cellular networks. Caching part of popular videos in the storage of small …

A contract-based incentive mechanism for data caching in ultra-dense small-cells networks

S Chu, J Li, T Liu, F Shu - 2017 IEEE Wireless Communications …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wireless caching is an efficient mechanism for reducing downloading delay and reducing
the traffic pressure over backhual channels by caching some popular content, eg, video …

Contract-based small-cell caching for data disseminations in ultra-dense cellular networks

J Li, S Chu, F Shu, J Wu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Evidence indicates that demands from mobile users (MU) on popular cloud content, eg,
video clips, account for a dramatic increase in data traffic over cellular networks. The …

On the auction-based resource trading for a small-cell caching system

F You, J Li, J Lu, F Shu - IEEE Communications Letters, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we propose an auction-based resource trading scheme between a network
service provider (NSP) and multiple content providers (CPs). The NSP is in charge of a …

Breaking the economic barrier of caching in cellular networks: Incentives and contracts

K Hamidouche, W Saad… - 2016 IEEE Global …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a novel approach for providing incentives for caching in small cell networks
(SCNs) is proposed based on the economics framework of contract theory. In this model, a …

Incentive mechanism for cached-enabled small cell sharing: A stackelberg game approach

K Zhao, S Zhang, N Zhang, Y Zhou… - … 2017-2017 IEEE …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we study a small-cell caching system consisting of one privately-owned small
base station (SBS) and multiple content providers (CPs), where CPs leverage the caching …