An Active Path-Associated Cache Scheme for Mobile Scenes

Tianchi Zhou, Peng Sun and Rui Han
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Tianchi Zhou: National Network New Media Engineering Research Center, Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
Peng Sun: National Network New Media Engineering Research Center, Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
Rui Han: National Network New Media Engineering Research Center, Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China

Future Internet, 2022, vol. 14, issue 2, 1-18

Abstract: With the widespread growth of mass content, information-centric networks (ICN) have become one of the research hotspots of future network architecture. One of the important features of ICN is ubiquitous in-network caching. In recent years, the explosive growth of mobile devices has brought content dynamics, which poses a new challenge to the original ICN caching mechanism. This paper focuses on the WiFi mobile scenario of ICN. We design a new path-associated active caching scheme to shorten the time delay of users obtaining content to enhance the user experience. In this article, based on the WiFi scenario, we first propose a solution for neighbor access point selection from a theoretical perspective, considering the caching cost and transition probability. The cache content is then forwarded based on the selected neighbor set. For cached content, we propose content freshness according to mobile characteristics and consider content popularity at the same time. For cache nodes, we focus on the size of the remaining cache space and the number of hops from the cache to the user. We have implemented this strategy based on the value of caching on the forwarding path. The simulation results show that our caching strategy has a significant improvement in performance compared with active caching and other caching strategies.

Keywords: ICN; proactive caching; mobility; caching strategy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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