Content Popularity Prediction and Caching for ICN: A Deep Learning Approach With SDN

In information-centric networking, accurately predicting content popularity can improve the performance of caching. Therefore, based on software defined network (SDN), this paper proposes Deep-Learning-based Content Popularity Prediction (DLCPP) to achieve the popularity prediction. DLCPP adopts the...

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Published in:IEEE access 2018-01, Vol.6, p.5075-5089
Main Authors: Liu, Wai-Xi, Zhang, Jie, Liang, Zhong-Wei, Peng, Ling-Xi, Cai, Jun
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Artificial neural networks
Caching
caching scheme
Coders
content popularity prediction
Correlation
Data mining
Deep learning
Feature extraction
Information-centric networking
Machine learning
Memory management
Neural networks
Performance enhancement
Predictive models
SDN
Software-defined networking
Switches
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Summary:In information-centric networking, accurately predicting content popularity can improve the performance of caching. Therefore, based on software defined network (SDN), this paper proposes Deep-Learning-based Content Popularity Prediction (DLCPP) to achieve the popularity prediction. DLCPP adopts the switch's computing resources and links in the SDN to build a distributed and reconfigurable deep learning network. For DLCPP, we initially determine the metrics that can reflect changes in content popularity. Second, each network node collects the spatial-temporal joint distribution data of these metrics. Then, the data are used as input to stacked auto-encoders (SAE) in DLCPP to extract the spatiotemporal features of popularity. Finally, we transform the popularity prediction into a multi-classification problem through discretizing the content popularity into multiple classifications. The Softmax classifier is used to achieve the content popularity prediction. Some challenges for DLCPP are also addressed, such as determining the structure of SAE, realizing the neuron function on an SDN switch, and deploying DLCPP on an OpenFlow-based SDN. At the same time, we propose a lightweight caching scheme that integrates cache placement and cache replacement-caching based on popularity prediction and cache capacity (CPC). Abundant experiments demonstrate good performance of DLCPP, and it achieves close to 2.1%~15% and 5.2%~40% accuracy improvements over neural networks and auto regressive, respectively. Benefitting from DLCPP's better prediction accuracy, CPC can yield a steady improvement of caching performance over other dominant cache management frameworks.
ISSN:2169-3536
2169-3536
DOI:10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2781716