Caching and Forwarding Layered Video in ICN Enabled Cellular Networks with Base-Station Assistance and D2D Communication

Users demand for watching high-quality video on the move is increasing day-by-day. Despite of achieving high bandwidth in the fourth and fifth generation of cellular networks, the bandwidth is not sufficient for meeting video-on-demand requests. Device-to-device communication is a way to achieve more spectral efficiency by frequency re-use. On the other hand, Information centric networking is introduced to optimize the Internet structure to handle the future user's demand. In this paper, we are introducing caching and forwarding the H.264/SVC encoded layered video in information centric networking enabled cellular network. In our proposal, base-station (either small-cell basestation of macro base-station) plays a vital role in managing the device-to-device communication and caching and forwarding decisions for the video content.