Joint V2V-Assisted Clustering, Caching, and Multicast Beamforming in Vehicular Edge Networks

Algorithm 1: Joint V2V-assisted clustering, caching, and multicasting algorithm.

Initialization: (Full cooperative multicasting is as the initial solution).

Repeat

   Solve problem via SCA to acquire ;

   Obtain and from Equation (14);

   Solve problem via Theorem 1 to acquire .

Until the error tolerance is met or maximum iterations are reached.

for

   Solve problem via SCA with the available .

end for

Algorithm 1: Joint V2V-assisted clustering, caching, and multicasting algorithm.