In this work, we evaluate a wireless system in which we distinguish between cacheable and non-cacheable traffic. More specifically, we consider a general system in which a wireless user with limited cache storage requests cacheable content from a data center that can be directly accessed through a base station. The user can be assisted by a pair of wireless helpers that exchange non-cacheable content. Packets arrive at the queue of the source helper in bursts. Each helper has its own caches to assist the users requests for cacheable content. Files not available from the helpers are transmitted by the base station. We analyze the system throughput and the delay experienced by the user and show how they are affected by the packet arrival rate at the source helper, the availability of caching helpers, the caches parameters, and the users request rate by means of numerical results.
Funding Agencies|European UnionEuropean Union (EU) [642743]