A BASE STATION AND A METHOD FOR MANAGING THE DISTRIBUTION OF A PLURALITY OF FILES TO A USER EQUIPMENT

摘要

The embodiments of the invention relate to a base station configured to manage the distribution of a plurality of files to a user equipment located within a service area of a base station, wherein each file of the plurality of files is decomposed into a plurality of file fragments. The base station comprises a selector configured to select, for each micro base station of a plurality of micro base stations located within the service area of the base station, and for each file of the plurality of files, a subset of the plurality of file fragments of the file, and a distributor configured to distribute to each micro base station, for each file, the selected subset of the plurality of file fragments to cache the selected subset of the plurality of file fragments at respective micro base station.