Performance of Learning Based Classification Techniques for Cache Placement in MENs

Abstract

With the growth of mobile data traffic in wireless networks, caches are used to bring data closer to mobile users and to minimize the traffic load on macro base station (MBS). Storing data in caches on user terminals (UTs) and small base stations (SBSs) faces challenges on which data to cache and where to cache these data. The process of deciding the cache contents involves multiple objectives regarding the content popularity, contact duration between UT and SBSs, communication ranges between UT and SBSs caches, and contact probability between UT and SBSs. In this paper, we propose a new strategy on cache placement decisions for mobile edge networks based on binary classification technique. The aim is to formulate the cache placement as a classification problem that is solved using machine learning techniques in order to define an optimal decision boundary on cache or not cache decisions. Simulation results show that the performance of cache placement algorithms using classifier based learning techniques can achieve higher hit rate than other algorithms.