title: Cache Scheme Based on Pre-Fetch Operation in ICN.
abstract: Many recent researches focus on ICN (Information-Centric Network), in which named content becomes the first citizen instead of end-host. In ICN, Named content can be further divided into many small sized chunks, and chunk-based communication has merits over content-based communication. The universal in-network cache is one of the fundamental infrastructures for ICN. In this work, a chunk-level cache mechanism based on pre-fetch operation is proposed. The main idea is that, routers with cache store should pre-fetch and cache the next chunks which may be accessed in the near future according to received requests and cache policy for reducing the users' perceived latency. Two pre-fetch driven modes are present to answer when and how to pre-fetch. The LRU (Least Recently Used) is employed for the cache replacement. Simulation results show that the average user perceived latency and hops can be decreased by employed this cache mechanism based on pre-fetch operation. Furthermore, we also demonstrate that the results are influenced by many factors, such as the cache capacity, Zipf parameters and pre-fetch window size.
authors.affiliation: Communication and Information Engineering, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications (CQUPT), Chongqing, China.
authors.forename: Jie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Duan
authors.affiliation: Communication and Information Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China.
authors.forename: Xiong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Communication and Information Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China.
authors.forename: Shizhong
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.affiliation: Communication and Information Engineering, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications (CQUPT), Chongqing, China.
authors.forename: Yuanni
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Communication and Information Engineering, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications (CQUPT), Chongqing, China.
authors.forename: Chuan
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.affiliation: Communication and Information Engineering, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications (CQUPT), Chongqing, China.
authors.forename: Guofeng
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Zhao
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D013685:Telecommunications