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FemtoCaching technology, aiming at maximizing the access probability of streaming media transmission in heterogeneous cellular networks, is investigated in this paper. Firstly, five kinds of streaming media deployment schemes are proposed based on the network topology and the relationship between users and streaming media. Secondly, a matching algorithm for adaptive streaming media deployment is proposed, where the FemtoCaching can be adjusted dynamically. Thirdly, a joint problem is formulated combined with the channel assignment, the power allocation, and the caching deployment. To address this problem, we propose a joint optimization algorithm combining matching algorithm and genetic algorithm to maximize the access probability of streaming media transmission. Simulation experiments demonstrate that: (1) the average access probability of all users accessing streaming media in the network based on the proposed algorithm compared with recent works can be greatly improved, and (2) the performance increases with increasing the number of channels and the storage capacity of micro base stations, but decreases with increasing the number of users.
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This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants No. 61972079, 62172084, 62132004, 61772126, 62032013, and 61872073, in part by the Major Research Plan of National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 92167103, in part by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grants N2216009, N2016004, N2116004, N2216006, and N2224001-7, in part by the Central Government Guided Local Science and Technology Development Fund Project under Grant 2020ZY0003, in part by the Science and Technology Plan Project of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China under Grant 2020GG0189, in part by the LiaoNing Revitalization Talents Program under Grants No. XLYC1902010 and XLYC2007162, in part by the Young and Middle-aged Scientific and Technological Innovation Talent Support Program of Shenyang under Grant RC200548.
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Jia, J., Xia, L., Ji, P. et al. Access probability optimization for streaming media transmission in heterogeneous cellular networks. Wireless Netw 28, 3231–3245 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-022-03014-9
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