Title
Asymptotically-Optimal Incentive-Based En-Route Caching Scheme
Abstract
Content caching at intermediate nodes is a very effective way to optimize the operations of Computer networks, so that future requests can be served without going back to the origin of the content. Several caching techniques have been proposed since the emergence of the concept, including techniques that require major changes to the Internet architecture such as Content Centric Networking. Few of these techniques consider providing caching incentives for the nodes or quality of service guarantees for content owners. In this work, we present a low complexity, distributed, and online algorithm for making caching decisions based on content popularity, while taking into account the aforementioned issues. Our algorithm performs en-route caching. Therefore, it can be integrated with the current TCP/IP model. In order to measure the performance of any online caching algorithm, we define the competitive ratio as the ratio of the performance of the online algorithm in terms of traffic savings to the performance of the optimal offline algorithm that has a complete knowledge of the future. We show that under our settings, no online algorithm can achieve a better competitive ratio than O(log n), where n is the number of nodes in the network. Furthermore, we show that under realistic scenarios, our algorithm has an asymptotically optimal competitive ratio in terms of the number of nodes in the network.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/MASS.2014.84
MASS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Internet,cache storage,content management,quality of service,telecommunication network routing,transport protocols,Internet architecture,TCP/IP model,asymptotically optimal competitive ratio,asymptotically-optimal incentive-based en-route caching scheme,computer networks,content caching,content centric networking,content owners,online caching decision making algorithm,optimal offline algorithm,En-route caching,asymptotic optimality,caching incentive,competitive ratio,quality of service
Journal
abs/1404.4639
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2155-6806
7
0.48
References 
Authors
18
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ammar Gharaibeh1825.71
Abdallah Khreishah257051.97
Issa Khalil356538.01
Jie Wu48307592.07