Rate and delay for coded caching with carrier aggregation

Abstract

Motivated by the ability of modern terminals to receive simultaneously from multiple networks (e.g., WLAN and Cellular), we extend the single shared link network with caching at the user nodes to the case of r parallel partially shared links, where users in different classes receive from the server simultaneously and in parallel through different set of links. For this setting, we give an order-optimal rate and (maximal) delay region characterization for the case of r = 2 links with two classes of users, one receiving only from link 1 and the other from both links 1 and 2. We also extend these results to r = 3 with three classes of users, receiving from link 1, from links 1 and 2, and from links 1 and 3, respectively.