MPCS: A mobility/popularity-based caching strategy for information-centric networks

Abstract

Information-Centric Networking (ICN) has a great potential to better support the content distribution over the future Internet. Meanwhile, users with mobile devices will also access ICN, introducing a new challenge to ICN providers to handle such mobile content requests. In this paper, a mobility and popularity-based caching strategy is proposed to increase the cache hit rate through WiFi while people are moving from one WiFi hotspot to another. It thus lowers the network traffic from the local ICN to the outside Internet. Specifically, a precise derivation on the content request rate is provided based on the content popularity and user mobility. A novel caching strategy is further developed based on this derivation for both the mobility-oblivious and mobility-aware scenarios. We evaluate different caching strategies with a trace-driven simulation and our new approach can achieve a 33.84% reduction on the network traffic when compared with the caching strategies only considering the content popularity.