Cited by 140Caching and Content DeliveryIoT and Edge/Fog ComputingPrivacy-Preserving Technologies in Data

Federated Learning Based Proactive Content Caching in Edge Computing

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Yu, Zhengxin, Hu, Jia, Min, Geyong, Lu, Haochuan, Zhao, Zhiwei, Wang, Haozhe, Georgalas, Nektarios·2018·2018 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)

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Content caching is a promising approach in edge computing to cope with the explosive growth of mobile data on 5G networks, where contents are typically placed on local caches for fast and repetitive data access. Due to the capacity limit of caches, it is essential to predict the popularity of files and cache those popular ones. However, the fluctuated popularity of files makes the prediction a highly challenging task. To tackle this challenge, many recent works propose learning based approaches which gather the users' data centrally for training, but they bring a significant issue: users may not trust the central server and thus hesitate to upload their private data. In order to address this issue, we propose a Federated learning based Proactive Content Caching (FPCC) scheme, which does not require to gather users' data centrally for training. The FPCC is based on a hierarchical architecture in which the server aggregates the users' updates using federated averaging, and each user performs training on its local data using hybrid filtering on stacked autoencoders. The experimental results demonstrate that, without gathering user's private data, our scheme still outperforms other learning-based caching algorithms such as m-epsilon-greedy and Thompson sampling in terms of cache efficiency.

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Authors
Yu, Z., Hu, J., Min, G., Lu, H., Zhao, Z., Wang, H., & Georgalas, N.
Affiliations
  • University of Exeter (GB)
  • Fudan University (CN)
  • University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (CN)
  • BT Group (United Kingdom) (GB)
Venue
2018 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2018-12
Pages
1-6
ISSN
1930-529X (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2917116807
Cited by
140
References
15
Citations by year
2025: 11 · 2024: 18 · 2023: 21 · 2022: 31 · 2021: 33 · 2020: 20 · 2019: 6
FWCI
12.19
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Globecom (publishedVersion)
  • Open Research Exeter (University of Exeter) (submittedVersion)
  • Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University) (submittedVersion)
  • Figshare (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China (612652, PIRSES-GA-2013-612652, 61602095)
  • Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/M013936/2)
  • National Key Research and Development Program of China (2017YFB1400102)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Caching and Content Delivery
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › IoT and Edge/Fog Computing
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
Keywords
proactive content caching, edge computing, federated learning, stacked autoencoder, hybrid filtering, FedAvg, user privacy, 5G, hierarchy, cache efficiency

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