Proactive Caching with Mobility Prediction under Uncertainty in Information-Centric Networks

Abani, Noor; Braun, Torsten; Gerla, Mario (26 September 2017). Proactive Caching with Mobility Prediction under Uncertainty in Information-Centric Networks. In: 4th ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking (ICN 2017). Berlin. 26.-28.09.2017. 10.1145/3125719.3125728

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Proactive caching can be a key enabler for reducing the latency of retrieving predictable content requests, alleviating backhaul traffic and mitigating latency caused by handovers. In mobile networks, proactive caching relies on mobility prediction to locate the mobile
device’s next location and hence the node that must prefetch the content. Previously proposed proactive caching strategies use edge caching exclusively and cache redundant copies on multiple edge nodes to address prediction uncertainty. In this paper, we present a proactive caching strategy that leverages ICN’s flexibility of caching data anywhere in the network, rather than just at the edge, like conventional content delivery networks. The main contribution of the paper is to use entropy to measure mobility prediction uncertainty and locate the best prefetching node, thus eliminating redundancy. While prefetching at levels higher in the network hierarchy incurs higher delays than at the edge, our evaluation results show that the increase in latency does not negate the performance gains of proactive caching. Moreover, the gains are amplified by the reduction in server load and cache redundancy achieved.

Item Type:

Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)

Division/Institute:

08 Faculty of Science > Institute of Computer Science (INF) > Communication and Distributed Systems (CDS)
08 Faculty of Science > Institute of Computer Science (INF)

UniBE Contributor:

Braun, Torsten

Subjects:

000 Computer science, knowledge & systems
500 Science > 510 Mathematics

ISBN:

978-1-4503-5122-5

Language:

English

Submitter:

Dimitrios Xenakis

Date Deposited:

13 Sep 2017 14:21

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 15:07

Publisher DOI:

10.1145/3125719.3125728

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.105383

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/105383

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