Patent ID: 11930377
Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 5:
6. The edge node as claimed in claim 5, wherein the processor is configured to:
split the popular content into a plurality of segments;
map the at least one segment from the plurality of segments to a delivery mode;
determine at least one cache allocation strategy based on assistance information received in at least one message from one or more of the plurality of UEs and associated with each UE of the plurality of UEs;
select the at least one UE from the plurality of UEs to act as at least one content holder for caching based on the at least one cache allocation strategy, the assistance information associated with each of the plurality of UEs, a popularity of the at least one segment of the popular content, a D2D cluster, a group of the at least one segment of the popular content;
schedule a delivery of the at least one segment of the popular content for caching at the at least one selected UE; and
transfer the at least one segment of the popular content to the at least one selected UE in the mapped delivery mode based on the scheduling.