A collaborative caching strategy in contentcentric networking

¹ School of Information Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China
² Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China

^* Corresponding author: cm.li@siat.ac.cn

Abstract

Content-centric Networking (CCN) is one of the most promising network architectures for the future Internet. In-network caching is an attractive feature of CCN, however, the existing research does not consider the off-path nodes, or gives a large communication overhead for cooperation, which makes the caching utilization lower, and hard to achieve comprehensive performance optimization. To reduce the data redundancy and improve the caching utilization, we propose a Regional Hashing Collaborative Caching Strategy (RHCCS). According to calculate the importance of nodes in the network topology, we divide the network into the core area and edge area. In core area, we select the relevant nodes for cooperation, store the block in the off-path nodes with the hashing algorithm, and add a new table in original data structures for routing in the collaborative areas. As for edge area, we deploy the on-path reversion scheme. By simulating in ndnSIM and comparing with the basic caching strategy in CCN, experimental results indicate that the RHCCS can effectively reduce data redundancy, routing hops, requesting delay, and significantly increase the hit rate.