Campus Units
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mathematics
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Conference
2017 51st Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers
Publication Version
Accepted Manuscript
Link to Published Version
https://doi.org/10.1109/ACSSC.2017.8335419
Publication Date
4-16-2018
First Page
636
Last Page
640
DOI
10.1109/ACSSC.2017.8335419
Conference Date
October 29-November 1, 2017
City
Pacific Grove, CA
Abstract
The original formulation of the coded caching problem assumes that the file requests from the users are synchronized, i.e., they arrive at the server at the same time. Several subsequent contributions work under the same assumption. Furthermore, the majority of prior work does not consider a scenario where users have deadlines. In our previous work we formulated the asynchronous coded caching problem where user requests arrive at different times. Furthermore, the users have specified deadlines. We proposed a linear program for obtaining its optimal solution. However, the size of the LP (number of constraints and variables) grows rather quickly with the number of users and cache sizes. In this work, we explore a dual decomposition based approach for solving the LP under consideration. We demonstrate that the dual function can be evaluated by equivalently solving a number of minimum cost network flow algorithms. Minimum cost network flow algorithms have been the subject of much investigation and current solvers routinely solve instances with millions of nodes in minutes. Our proposed approach leverages these fast solvers and allows us to solve several large scale instances of the asynchronous coded caching problem with manageable time and memory complexity.
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Copyright Owner
IEEE
Copyright Date
2017
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Ghasemi, Hooshang and Ramamoorthy, Aditya, "Algorithms for Asynchronous Coded Caching" (2018). Electrical and Computer Engineering Conference Papers, Posters and Presentations. 60.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/ece_conf/60
Comments
This is a manuscript of a proceeding published as Ghasemi, Hooshang, and Aditya Ramamoorthy. "Algorithms for asynchronous coded caching." In 2017 51st Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, (2017): 636-640.