An Energy Efficient Local Popularity Based Cooperative Caching for Mobile Information Centric Networks

• Published in: Sustainability 2022-10, Vol.14 (20), p.13135
• Main Authors: Iqbal, Javed, Abideen, Zain ul, Ali, Nadia, Khan, Saddam Hussain, Rahim, Azizur, Zahir, Ali, Mohsan, Syed Agha Hassnain, Alsharif, Mohammed H
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Caching; Communication; Energy consumption; Energy efficiency; Internet; Latency; Network latency; Social networks; Sustainability; Traffic
• ISSN: 2071-1050; 2071-1050
• DOI: 10.3390/su142013135

The usage of social media applications such as Youtube, Facebook, and other applications is rapidly increasing with each passing day. These applications are used for uploading informational content such as images, videos, and voices, which results in exponential traffic overhead. Due to these overheads (high bandwidth consumption), the service providers fail to provide high-speed and low latency internet to users around the globe. The current internet cannot cope with such high data traffic due to its fixed infrastructure (host centric-network) degrading the network performance. A new internet paradigm known as Information Centric Networks (ICN) was introduced based on content-oriented addressing. The concept of ICN is to entertain the request locally by neighbor nodes without accessing the source, which will help offload the network’s data traffic. ICN can mitigate traffic overhead and meet future Internet requirements. In this work, we propose a novel decentralized placement scheme named self-organized cooperative caching (SOCC) for mobile ICN to improve the overall network performance through efficient bandwidth utilization and less traffic overhead. The proposed scheme outperforms the state-of-the-art schemes in terms of energy consumption by 55%, average latency, and cache hit rate by a minimum of 35%.