11 August 2015
This paper presents a cross-layer framework in order to design and optimize energy-efficient cache memories made of deeply-scaled FinFET devices. The proposed design framework spans device, circuit and architecture levels and considers both super- an...
To improve the reliability of static random access memory (SRAM), error-correcting codes (ECC) are typically used to protect SRAM in the cache. While improving the reliability, we also need additional circuits to support ECC, including encoding and d...
To address the current limitations of spaceborne solid-state storage systems that cannot effectively support the parallel storage of multiple high-speed data streams, the throughput bottleneck of NAND FLASH-based solid-state storage systems was analy...
This work addresses the joint design of fronthaul and edge links for a cache-aided cloud radio access network (C-RAN) system with a wireless fronthaul link. Motivated by the fact that existing techniques, such as C-RAN and edge caching, come at the c...
Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Architectures (CGRAs) execute compute-intensive kernels on a reconfigurable processing mesh. Transparent CGRAs extend this model by generating configurations at runtime and storing them in a dedicated cache, removing com...
Designers can reduce design space exploration time and efforts using the design space subsetting method that removes energy-redundant configurations. However, the subsetting method requires a priori knowledge of all applications. We analyze the impac...
Caching has attracted much attention recently because it holds the promise of scaling the service capability of radio access networks (RANs). We envision that caching will ultimately make next-generation RANs more than bit-pipelines and emerge as a m...
This paper presents ultra high-density spin-orbit torque magnetic random-access memory (SOT-MRAM) for last-level data cache application. Although SOT-MRAM has many appealing attributes of low write energy, nonvolatility, and high reliability, it pose...
The size of transistors has drastically reduced over the years. Interconnects have likewise also been scaled down. Today, conventional copper (Cu)-based interconnects face a significant impediment to further scaling since their electrical conductivit...
To allieviate the heavy traffic burden over backhaul links and improve the user’s quality of service (QoS), edge caching plays an important role in wireless networks. This paper investigated the optimal designs of content placement and transmis...
During the recent decades, non-volatile memory (NVM) has been anticipated to scale up the main memory size, improve the performance of applications, and reduce the speed gap between main memory and storage devices, while supporting persistent storage...
Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) have been proposed as revolutionary applications for the next generation, especially in education. Many VR applications have been designed to promote learning via virtual environments and 360° video...
This paper investigates the optimal design of a hierarchical cloud-fog&edge computing (FEC) network, which consists of three tiers, i.e., the cloud tier, the fog&edge tier, and the device tier. The device in the device tier processes its task...
In this study, we design and analyze a reliability-oriented downlink wireless network assisted by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). This network employs non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) transmission and finite blocklength (FBL) codes. In the netw...
In current Chip Multi-Processor (CMP) systems, data sharing existing in cache hierarchy acts as a critical issue which costs plenty of clock cycles for maintaining data coherence. Along with the integrated core number increasing, the only shared cach...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with high mobility and self-organization capabilities can establish highly connected networks to cache popular content for edge users, which improves network stability and significantly reduces access time. However, an...
Cultural heritage (CH) institutions attract wide and heterogeneous audiences, which should be efficiently supported and have access to meaningful CH content. This introduces numerous challenges when delivering such experiences, given that people have...
This article proposes a novel chunk-based caching scheme known as the Progressive Popularity-Aware Caching Scheme (PPCS) to improve content availability and eliminate the cache redundancy issue of Information-Centric Networking (ICN). Particularly, t...
Space–air–ground integrated networks (SAGINs) enable flexible content delivery through satellite–UAV–ground cooperation, yet time-varying user demand and dynamic backhaul conditions pose significant challenges to efficient UAV...
As deep learning has produced dramatic breakthroughs in many areas, it has motivated emerging studies on the combination between neural networks and cache replacement algorithms. However, deep learning is a poor fit for performing cache replacement i...
The deployment density and computational power of small base stations (BSs) are expected to increase significantly in the next generation mobile communication networks. These BSs form the mobile edge network, which is a pervasive and distributed infr...
Heterogeneous and configurable multicore systems provide hardware specialization to meet disparate application hardware requirements. However, effective multicore system specialization can require a priori knowledge of the applications, application p...
The major advantage of information-centric networking (ICN) lies in in-network caching. Ubiquitous cache nodes reduce the user’s download latency of content and the drain of network bandwidth, which enables efficient content distribution. Due t...
Recent trends show that Internet traffic is increasingly dominated by content, which is accompanied by the exponential growth of traffic. To cope with this phenomena, network caching is introduced to utilize the storage capacity of diverse network de...
With increasing core-count, the cache demand of modern processors has also increased. However, due to strict area/power budgets and presence of poor data-locality workloads, blindly scaling cache capacity is both infeasible and ineffective. Cache byp...
OpenFlow switches hardware cannot store all the OpenFlow rules due to a limited resource. The rule-caching scheme is one of the best solutions to solve the hardware size limitation. In OpenFlow switches, Multiple Flow Tables (MFTs) provide more flexi...
Existing information-centric networking (ICN) designs for Internet of Things (IoT) mostly make caching decisions based on probability or content popularity. From the energy-efficient perspective, those strategies may not always be energy efficient in...
Applications have different preferences for caches, sometimes even within the different running phases. Caches with fixed parameters may compromise the performance of a system. To solve this problem, we propose a real-time adaptive reconfigurable cac...
Content store (CS) is one of the main components of information-centric networking (ICN), which enables content objects to be cached and retrieved from any intermediate node in the network. However, in existing ICN designs, CS information is not expl...
With the widespread growth of mass content, information-centric networks (ICN) have become one of the research hotspots of future network architecture. One of the important features of ICN is ubiquitous in-network caching. In recent years, the explos...
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This paper presents an analytical evaluation of three strategies designed to minimize service disruption during handovers in Software-Defined Networking (SDN)-based connected car networks: SDN Mobility with a Caching Policy, cache-miss Content Delive...
The Information-Centric Network (ICN), designed for efficient content acquisition and distribution, is a promising candidate architecture for the future Internet. In-network caching in ICN makes it possible to reuse contents and the Name Resolution S...
The Cache plays an important role in computer architecture by reducing the access time of the processor and improving its performance. The hardware design of the Cache is complex and it is challenging to verify its functions, so the traditional Veril...
The speedy advancement in wireless communication technologies provides considerable development to enable smart cities with applications such as Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) and the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT). Blockchain is an emerging...
Cache timing attacks, i.e., a class of remote side-channel attack, have become very popular in recent years. Eviction set construction is a common step for many such attacks, and algorithms for building them are evolving rapidly. On the other hand, c...
As a new network architecture, information-centric networking (ICN) decouples the identifiers and locators of network entities and makes full use of in-network cache technology to improve the content distribution efficiency. For reliable multicast, I...
Information-Centric Networking (ICN) typically utilizes DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory) to build in-network cache components due to its high data transfer rate and low latency. However, DRAM faces significant limitations in terms of cost and capa...
Cache-enabled networks suffer hugely from the challenge of content caching and content delivery. In this regard, cache-enabled device-to-device (D2D) assisted multitier cellular networks are expected to relieve the network data pressure and effective...
Mobile edge cache (MEC)-enabled air-to-ground integrated Internet of Vehicles (IoV) technology can solve wireless network backhaul congestion and high latency, but security problems such as eavesdropping are often ignored when designing cache strateg...
Unmanned aerial vehicle edge networks (UENs) can reduce the cache load of the core network and improve system performance to provide users with efficient content services. However, the time-varying characteristics of content popularity in UENs lead t...
With the explosive growth of micro-video applications, the transmission burden of fronthaul and backhaul links is increasing, and meanwhile, a lot of energy consumption is also generated. For reducing energy consumption and transmission delay burden,...
In maritime non-terrestrial networks, long-distance links and resource heterogeneity give rise to significant system transmission delays. As an effective mechanism for alleviating link pressure and enhancing efficiency, caching has been widely employ...
Edge caching is a promising approach to alleviate the burden on the backhaul of network links. It has a significant role in the Internet of Vehicle (IoV) networks performance by providing cached data at the edge and reduce the burden of the core netw...
One key feature of named data networks (NDN) is supporting in-network caching to increase the content distribution for today’s Internet needs. However, previously cached contents may be threatened by side-channel timing measurements/attacks. Fo...
The rapid development of the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) has significantly increased data transmission demands, frequently causing backhaul congestion and service delays in traditional static cellular networks. To address these challenges, this paper...
The space–air–ground integrated network (SAGIN) is a key 6G architecture that provides seamless three-dimensional connectivity, exhibiting hierarchical structural symmetry between LEO satellite and HAP layers. Integrating information-cent...
The rapid growth of mobile data traffic poses significant challenges to ensuring high-quality service in wireless networks. Although the caching technique is capable of alleviating network congestion, most existing schemes depend on uncoded caching w...
This paper presents a cache-aware configurable hybrid flash translation layer (FTL), named CACH-FTL. It was designed based on the observation that most state-of-the-art flash-specific cache systems above FTLs flush groups of pages belonging to the...
With the Internet of Vehicles (IOV), a lot of self-driving vehicles (SDVs) need to handle a variety of tasks but have very seriously limited computing and storage resources, meaning they cannot complete intensive tasks timely. In this paper, a joint...
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