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Low-Latency and Fresh Content Provision in Information-Centric Vehicular Networks
Shan Zhang, Junjie Li, Hongbin Luo +4
In this paper, the content service provision of information-centric vehicular networks (ICVNs) is investigated from the aspect of mobile edge caching, considering the dynamic drivi…
AoI-Delay Tradeoff in Mobile Edge Caching with Freshness-Aware Content Refreshing
Shan Zhang, Liudi Wang, Hongbin Luo +2
Mobile edge caching can effectively reduce service delay but may introduce information staleness, calling for timely content refreshing. However, content refreshing consumes additi…
Cooperative Service Caching and Workload Scheduling in Mobile Edge Computing
Xiao Ma, Ao Zhou, Shan Zhang +1
Mobile edge computing is beneficial to reduce service response time and core network traffic by pushing cloud functionalities to network edge. Equipped with storage and computation…
The Design of Dynamic Probabilistic Caching with Time-Varying Content Popularity
Jie Gao, Shan Zhang, Lian Zhao +2
In this paper, we design dynamic probabilistic caching for the scenario when the instantaneous content popularity may vary with time while it is possible to predict the average con…
Hierarchical Soft Slicing to Meet Multi-Dimensional QoS Demand in Cache-Enabled Vehicular Networks
Shan Zhang, Hongbin Luo, Junling Li +2
Vehicular networks are expected to support diverse content applications with multi-dimensional quality of service (QoS) requirements, which cannot be realized by the conventional o…
Multi-Drone 3D Trajectory Planning and Scheduling in Drone Assisted Radio Access Networks
Weisen Shi, Junlng Li, Nan Cheng +4
Drone base station (DBS) is a promising technique to extend wireless connections for uncovered users of terrestrial radio access networks (RAN). To improve user fairness and networ…
Bi-Directional Mission Offloading for Agile Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks
Sheng Zhou, Guangchao Wang, Shan Zhang +3
Space-air-ground integrated networks (SAGIN) provide great strengths in extending the capability of ground wireless networks. On the other hand, with rich spectrum and computing re…
Content Popularity Prediction Towards Location-Aware Mobile Edge Caching
Peng Yang, Ning Zhang, Shan Zhang +3
Mobile edge caching enables content delivery within the radio access network, which effectively alleviates the backhaul burden and reduces response time. To fully exploit edge stor…
Air-Ground Integrated Vehicular Network Slicing with Content Pushing and Caching
Shan Zhang, Wei Quan, Junling Li +3
In this paper, an Air-Ground Integrated VEhicular Network (AGIVEN) architecture is proposed, where the aerial High Altitude Platforms (HAPs) proactively push contents to vehicles t…
Big Data Driven Vehicular Networks
Nan Cheng, Feng Lyu, Jiayin Chen +5
Vehicular communications networks (VANETs) enable information exchange among vehicles, other end devices and public networks, which plays a key role in road safety/infotainment, in…
Cooperative Edge Caching in User-Centric Clustered Mobile Networks
Shan Zhang, Peter He, Katsuya Suto +4
With files proactively stored at base stations (BSs), mobile edge caching enables direct content delivery without remote file fetching, which can reduce the end-to-end delay while…
Dynamic Mobile Edge Caching with Location Differentiation
Peng Yang, Ning Zhang, Shan Zhang +3
Mobile edge caching enables content delivery directly within the radio access network, which effectively alleviates the backhaul burden and reduces round-trip latency. To fully exp…
Cost-Effective Cache Deployment in Mobile Heterogeneous Networks
Shan Zhang, Ning Zhang, Peng Yang +1
This paper investigates one of the fundamental issues in cache-enabled heterogeneous networks (HetNets): how many cache instances should be deployed at different base stations, in…
Self-Sustaining Caching Stations: Towards Cost-Effective 5G-Enabled Vehicular Networks
Shan Zhang, Ning Zhang, Xiaojie Fang +3
In this article, we investigate the cost-effective 5G-enabled vehicular networks to support emerging vehicular applications, such as autonomous driving, in-car infotainment and loc…
Energy-Sustainable Traffic Steering for 5G Mobile Networks
Shan Zhang, Ning Zhang, Sheng Zhou +4
Renewable energy harvesting (EH) technology is expected to be pervasively utilized in the next generation (5G) mobile networks to support sustainable network developments and opera…
Software Defined Networking Enabled Wireless Network Virtualization: Challenges and Solutions
Ning Zhang, Peng Yang, Shan Zhang +5
Next generation (5G) wireless networks are expected to support the massive data and accommodate a wide range of services/use cases with distinct requirements in a cost-effective, f…
Software Defined Space-Air-Ground Integrated Vehicular Networks: Challenges and Solutions
Ning Zhang, Shan Zhang, Peng Yang +3
This article proposes a software defined space-air-ground integrated network architecture for supporting diverse vehicular services in a seamless, efficient, and cost-effective man…
Energy-Aware Traffic Offloading for Green Heterogeneous Networks
Shan Zhang, Ning Zhang, Sheng Zhou +4
With small cell base stations (SBSs) densely deployed in addition to conventional macro base stations (MBSs), the heterogeneous cellular network (HCN) architecture can effectively…
Spatial Traffic Shaping in Heterogeneous Cellular Networks with Energy Harvesting
Shan Zhang, Sheng Zhou, Jie Gong +4
Energy harvesting (EH), which explores renewable energy as a supplementary power source, is a promising 5G technology to support the huge energy demand of heterogeneous cellular ne…
How Many Small Cells Can Be Turned off via Vertical Offloading under a Separation Architecture?
Shan Zhang, Jie Gong, Sheng Zhou +1
To further improve the energy efficiency of heterogeneous networks, a separation architecture called hyper-cellular network (HCN) has been proposed, which decouples the control sig…