Fresh Caching of Dynamic Contents using Restless Multi-armed Bandits

• Published in: IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems pp. 238 - 246
• Main Authors: Koley, Ankita, Singh, Chandramani
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 23.09.2024
• Subjects: Ad hoc networks; Aging; Base stations; Costs; Indexes; Markov decision processes; n/a; Reliability engineering; Servers; Smart systems; Wireless communication

We consider a dynamic content caching problem wherein the contents get updated at a central server, and local copies of a subset of contents are cached at a local cache associated with a Base station (BS). When a content request arrives, based on whether the content is in the local cache, the BS can...