On the Incentive Mechanisms for Commercial Edge Caching in 5G Wireless Networks

Mobile data traffic has dramatically increased by a factor of around 100 over the last five years, while it is still expected to grow exponentially in the near future. Evidence indicates that the repetitive downloading of popular contents accounts for the increase in wireless traffic. This has consequently led to the development of edge caching technology for efficiently mitigating redundant transmissions from backbone networks by pre-caching...