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...
With the popularity of smart devices and the growth of high-bandwidth applications, the wireless industry is facing an increased surge in data traffic. This challenge highlights the limitations of traditional edge-caching solutions, especially in ter...
The Content-Centric Network (CCN) presents an alternative to the conventional TCP/IP network, where IP is fundamental for communication between the source and destination. Instead of relying on IP addresses, CCN emphasizes content to enable efficient...
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...
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...
Vehicular edge networks (VENs) connect vehicles to share data and infotainment content collaboratively to improve network performance. Due to technological advancements, data growth is accelerating, making it difficult to always connect mobile device...
Content-centric vehicular networks (CCVNs) have considered distributed proactive caching as an attractive approach for the timely provision of emerging services. The naïve caching schemes cache all of the contents to only one selected roadside u...
With the rapid development of virtual reality (VR) video networked applications, the use of network caching mechanisms to guarantee the quality of VR services has been proven to be a very effective method. Most of the existing methods on cache placem...
Content caching and recommendation for content delivery over the Internet are two key techniques for improving the content delivery effectiveness determined by delivery efficiency and user satisfaction, which is increasingly important in the booming...
In vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), content pre-caching is a significant technology that improves network performance and lowers network response delay. VANET faces network congestion when multiple requests for the same content are generated. Loca...
Emerging in-vehicle applications seek to improve travel experiences, but the rising number of vehicles results in more computational tasks and redundant content requests, leading to resource waste. Efficient compute offloading and content caching str...
Mobile edge caching is regarded as a promising way to reduce the backhaul load of the base stations (BSs). However, the capacity of BSs’ cache tends to be small, while mobile users’ content preferences are diverse. Furthermore, both the l...
Vehicular caching (VC) has been considered as a promising technology to provide low end-to-end service latency and reduce the load of networks. However, it is difficult for VC to provide service continuity because of its opportunistic availability ac...
High-speed internet has boosted clients’ traffic needs. Content caching on mobile edge computing (MEC) servers reduces traffic and latency. Caching with MEC faces difficulties such as user mobility, limited storage, varying user preferences, an...
In this paper, we investigate a low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite-enabled mobile edge computing (MEC) network, where multiple cache-enabled LEO satellites are deployed to address heterogeneous content requests from ground users. To evaluate the network...
With the increasing complexity of applications, many delay-sensitive and compute-intensive services have posed significant challenges to mobile devices. Addressing how to efficiently allocate heterogeneous network resources to meet the computing and...
The paper studies the application of various content distribution policies for vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) and compares their effectiveness under various simulation scenarios. Our implementation augments the existing Veins tool, an open source...
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based wireless sensor networks (WSNs) hold great promise for supporting ground-based sensors due to the mobility of UAVs and the ease of establishing line-of-sight links. UAV-based WSNs equipped with mobile edge computin...
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,...
The ubiquity of data-enabled mobile devices and wireless-enabled data applications has fostered the rapid development of wireless content caching, which is an efficient approach to mitigating cellular traffic pressure. Considering the content charact...
With the rapid growth of mass content retrieval on the Internet, Information-Centric Network (ICN) has become one of the hotspots in the field of future network architectures. The in-network cache is an important feature of ICN. For better network pe...
Vehicular fog computing is attractive for sharing computing resources and data for safety and infortainment of self-driving cars. Recently, the V2X communication technology using mm-Wave frequency spectrum accelerates such future mobile computing wit...
Content delivery networks (CDNs) face steadily rising, uneven demand, straining heuristic cache replacement. Reinforcement learning (RL) is promising, but most work assumes a fully observable Markov Decision Process (MDP), unrealistic under delayed,...
In today’s digital landscape, content delivery networks (CDNs) play a pivotal role in ensuring rapid and seamless access to online content across the globe. By strategically deploying a network of edge servers in close proximity to users, CDNs...
In this paper, we introduce a memory and cache contention denial-of-service attack and its hardware-based countermeasure. Our attack can significantly degrade the performance of the benign programs by hindering the shared resource accesses of the ben...
In this paper, we work on a Cache and Multi-layer MEC enabled C-RAN (CMM-CRAN) to handle various user tasks with minimized latency and energy cost. We intend to solve two particular problems of CMM-CRAN. First, because CMM-CRAN has to maximally cache...
The aim of named data networking (NDN) is to develop an efficient data dissemination approach by implementing a cache module within the network. Caching is one of the most prominent modules of NDN that significantly enhances the Internet architecture...
Among various factors contributing to performance of named data networking (NDN), the organization of caching is a key factor and has benefited from intense studies by the networking research community. The performed studies aimed at (1) finding the...
Proactive caching of the most popular contents in the cache memory of fog-access points (F-APs) is regarded as a promising solution for the 5G and beyond cellular communication to address latency-related issues caused by the unprecedented demand of m...
A UAV-assisted caching strategy considering content cache pricing in vehicular networks is proposed to address the problem of high communication load and high backhaul link overhead in vehicular networks. Consider a traffic scenario consisting of a c...
The transmission of a large amount of video and picture content brings more challenges to wireless communication networks. Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided small cells with active content caching deployed on cellular networks are recognized as a p...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), featured by the high-mobility and high-quality propagation environment, have shown great potential in wireless communication applications. In this paper, a novel UAV-aided small-cell content caching network is propose...
Mobile users’ demands to delay-sensitive video streaming media put forward new requirements for mobile networks, such as architecture optimization. Edge caching as a new paradigm is proposed to enhance the quality of service (QoS) for mobile users at...
Edge computing is a key paradigm for the various data-intensive Internet of Things (IoT) applications where caching plays a significant role at the edge of the network. This paradigm provides data-intensive services, computational activities, and app...
In recent years, most internet communications have focused on accessing content such as video, web services, and audio. Conversely, traditional Internet communications are inefficient because they are primarily designed for data transfer between host...
The domain of information-centric networking (ICN) is expanding as more devices are becoming a part of connected technologies. New methods for serving content from a producer to a consumer are being explored, and Named Data Networking (NDN) is one of...
The storage of frequently requested multimedia content at small-cell base stations (BSs) can reduce the load of macro-BSs without relying on high-speed backhaul links. In this work, the optimal operation of a system consisting of a cache-aided small-...
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...
The fog radio access network (F-RAN) equipped with enhanced remote radio heads (eRRHs), which can pre-store some requested files in the edge cache and support mobile edge computing (MEC). To guarantee the quality-of-service (QoS) and energy efficienc...
In-network caching is the essential part of Content-Centric Networking (CCN). The main aim of a CCN caching module is data distribution within the network. Each CCN node can cache content according to its placement policy. Therefore, it is fully equi...
Content-Centric Networking (CCN) has emerged as a potential Internet architecture that supports name-based content retrieval mechanism in contrast to the current host location-oriented IP architecture. The in-network caching capability of CCN ensures...
Information-centric networks (ICNs) have received wide interest from researchers, and in-network caching is an important characteristic of ICN. The management and placement of contents are essential due to cache nodes’ limited cache space and t...
Users can access the Internet anywhere they go at any time due to the advancement of communications and networking technologies. The number of users and connected devices are rapidly increasing, and various forms of content are becoming increasingly...
Ubiquitous in-network caching plays an important role in improving the efficiency of content access and distribution in Information-Centric Networks (ICN). Content placement strategies, which determine the location distribution of content replicas in...
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...
Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) have evolved to meet surging data demands and stringent low-latency requirements driven by emerging applications like high-definition video streaming, virtual reality, and IoT. This paper proposes a hybrid CDN archite...
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...
The Information-Centric Network (ICN) is one of the most influential future network architectures and in-network caching in ICN brings some helpful features, such as low latency and mobility support. How to allocate cache capacity and place content p...
The communication network is growing with some unique characteristics, such as consumers repeatedly request the same content to the server, similarity in local demand trend, and dynamic changes to requests within a specific period. Therefore, a diffe...
The growing demand for large-scale data distribution and sharing presents significant challenges to content transmission within the current TCP/IP network architecture. To address these challenges, Information-Centric Networking (ICN) has emerged as...
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