Mobile Edge Caching in Heterogeneous Vehicular Networks (SpringerBriefs in Computer Science)

Preface
Contents
Acronyms
1 Introduction
	1.1 Overview of Vehicular Content Delivery Networks
	1.2 Mobile Edge Caching-Assisted Content Delivery in HetVNets
		1.2.1 Overview of the Heterogeneous SAGVN
		1.2.2 Mobile Edge Caching-Assisted Content Delivery
	1.3 Technical Challenges
	1.4 Aim of the Monograph
	References
2 Techniques for Content Delivery Performance Enhancement
	2.1 HetVNet Techniques to Off-load Access Networks
		2.1.1 Vehicular Traffic Offloading in the Terrestrial HetVNet
		2.1.2 UAV-Assisted Traffic Offloading in the AGVN
		2.1.3 Satellite-Assisted Traffic Offloading in the SAGVN
	2.2 Caching-Assisted Content Delivery to Off-load Backhaul Networks
		2.2.1 Content Placement Schemes
		2.2.2 Content Delivery Schemes
	2.3 Summary
	References
3 Delay-Minimized Mobile Edge Caching in the Terrestrial HetVNet
	3.1 System Scenario and Problem Formulation
		3.1.1 Scenario Description
		3.1.2 On–Off Service Model
		3.1.3 Fountain Coding
		3.1.4 Problem Formulation
	3.2 Average Delivery Delay Analysis in HetVNet
		3.2.1 Determination of Coding Parameters
		3.2.2 Effective Service Time
		3.2.3 Average Delivery Delay Analysis
	3.3 Matching-Based Content Caching Scheme
		3.3.1 Complexity Analysis
		3.3.2 Preference Lists
		3.3.3 Matching-Based Content Placement Policy
	3.4 Performance Evaluation
	3.5 Summary
	References
4 Optimal UAV Caching and Trajectory Design in the AGVN
	4.1 System Scenario and Problem Formulation
		4.1.1 Scenario Description
		4.1.2 Communication and UAV Energy Consumption Models
		4.1.3 Problem Formulation
	4.2 Design of LB-JCTO
		4.2.1 Offline Optimization
		4.2.2 Offline Model Training and Online Decision
	4.3 CBTL-Based Offline Optimization
		4.3.1 Determining the Number of UAVs
		4.3.2 Vehicle Clustering
		4.3.3 JCTO-TDL Optimization in the CBTL Algorithm
		4.3.4  JCTO-CL Optimization in the CBTL Algorithm
	4.4 CNN-Based Learning for Online Decision
		4.4.1 Image-Like Input Data
		4.4.2 CNN-Based Model Training
	4.5 Performance Evaluation
		4.5.1 Experimental Settings
		4.5.2 Evaluation of CBTL-Based Offline Optimization
		4.5.3 Evaluation of EI-Based CNN Learning Model
	4.6 Summary
	References
5 Load- and Mobility-Aware Cooperative Content Delivery in the SAGVN
	5.1 System Model and Problem Formulation
		5.1.1 Scenario Description and Assumptions
		5.1.2 Communication Model
		5.1.3 Problem Formulation
	5.2 Problem Analysis Based on Decomposition
		5.2.1 Optimization of xxxx with Known xxxx and xxxx
		5.2.2 Delay Performance Gain with Bandwidth Allocation
	5.3 LMA-ABC Scheme for Cooperative Content Delivery
		5.3.1 Posterior Association Determination
		5.3.2 Bandwidth Allocation with Diminishing Gain Effect
		5.3.3 LMA-ABC Scheme Design
	5.4 Performance Evaluation
	5.5 Summary
	References
6 Conclusions and Future Research Directions
	6.1 Conclusions
	6.2 Future Research Directions
Index