Cache pressure-aware caching scheme for content-centric networking

Authors: XI LUO, YING AN

Abstract: Content centric networking (CCN) is a new networking paradigm to meet the growing demand for content access in the future. Because of its important role in accelerating content retrieval and reducing network transmission load, in-network caching has become one of the core technologies in CCN and has attracted wide attention. The existing caching schemes often lack sufficient consideration of node cache status and the temporal validity of user requests, and thus the cache efficiency of the network is greatly reduced. In this paper, a cache pressure-aware caching scheme is proposed, which comprehensively takes into account various factors such as content popularity, cache occupancy rate, cache replacement rate, and the validity period of the $Interest$ packet to achieve reasonable cache placement and replacement. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme effectively improves the cache hit rate and the resource utilization while decreasing the average response hops.

Keywords: Content-centric networking, in-network caching, cache pressure, temporal validity

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