Performance of Queueing Models for MISO Content-Centric Networks

MISO networks have garnered attention in wireless content-centric networks due to the additional degrees of freedoms they provide. Several beamforming techniques such as NOMA, OMA, SDMA and Rate splitting have been proposed for such networks. These techniques utilise the redundancy in the content requests across users and leverage the spatial multicast and multiplexing gains of multi-antenna transmit beamforming to improve the content delivery rate. However, queueing delays and user traffic dynamics which significantly affect the performance of these schemes, have generally been ignored. We study queueing delays in the downlink for several scheduling and beamforming schemes in content-centric networks, with one base-station possessing multiple transmit antennas. These schemes are studied along with a recently proposed Simple Multicast Queue, to improve the delay performance of the network. This work is particularly relevant for content delivery in 5G and eMBB networks.