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In the traditional $(H,r,M,N)$ combination network, a central server storing N files communicates with $K=(\genfrac{}{}{0pt}{}{H}{r})$ users through H cache-less relays. Each user has a local cache of size M files and is connected to a distinct subset of r relays. This paper s...

With the deep integration of communication technology and Internet of Things technology, the edge network structure is becoming increasingly dense and heterogeneous. At the same time, in the edge network environment, characteristics such as wide-area...

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 concept of edge caching provision in emerging 5G and beyond mobile networks is a promising method to deal both with the traffic congestion problem in the core network, as well as reducing latency to access popular content. In that respect, end us...

This paper considers a two-layer hierarchical network, where a server containing N files is connected to $K_1$ mirrors and each mirror is connected to $K_2$ users. Each mirror and each user has a cache memory of size $M_1$ and $M_2$ files, respectively. The serv...

Network caching is a technique used to speed-up user access to frequently requested contents in complex data networks. This paper presents a two-layer overlay network caching system for content distribution. It is used to define some caching scenario...

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...

Fifth Generation mobile networks (5G) promise to make network services provided by various Service Providers (SP) such as Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) and third-party SPs accessible from anywhere by the end-users through their User Equipment (UE)....

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 networking (ICN) has gained significant attention due to its in-network caching and named-based routing capabilities. Caching plays a crucial role in managing the increasing network traffic and improving the content delivery effic...

Today, the internet requires many additional mechanisms or protocols to support various ever-growing applications. As a future internet architecture candidate, the Named Data Network (NDN) offers a solution that naturally fulfills this need. One of t...

In the traditional $(K,L,M_T,M_U,N)$ partially connected linear network, a central server stores a library of N files and connects to $K+L-1$ transmitters, each equipped with a cache of size $M_T$. Each user is connected to L neighboring transmitters an...

The named data vehicular sensor network (NDVSN) has become an increasingly important area of research because of the increasing demand for data transmission in vehicular networks. In such networks, ensuring the quality of service (QoS) of data transm...

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...

Coded multicasting has been shown to be a promising approach to significantly improve the performance of content delivery networks with multiple caches downstream of a common multicast link. However, the schemes that have been shown to achieve order-...

How to maximize the advantages of in-network caching under limited cache space has always been a key issue in information-centric networking (ICN). Replica placement strategies aim to fully utilize cache resources by optimizing the location and quant...

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...

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...

Named Data Networking (NDN) has been recognized as the most promising information-centric networking architecture that fits the application model of IoT systems. In-network caching is one of NDN’s most fundamental features for improving data av...

Information-centric networking (ICN) changes the way data are accessed by focusing on the content rather than the location of devices. In this model, each piece of data has a unique name, making it accessible directly by name. This approach suits the...

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...

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...

Information-Centric Networking (ICN) is a new paradigm of network architecture that focuses on content rather than hosts as first-class citizens of the network. As part of these architectures, in-network storage devices are essential to provide end u...

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...

With the continuous development of intelligent vehicles, people’s demand for services has also rapidly increased, leading to a sharp increase in wireless network traffic. Edge caching, due to its location advantage, can provide more efficient t...

An optimal method for resource allocation based on contract theory is proposed to improve energy utilization. In heterogeneous networks (HetNets), distributed heterogeneous network architectures are designed to balance different computing capacities,...

By enabling name-based routing and ubiquitous in-network caching, Named Data Networking (NDN) is a promising network architecture for sixth generation (6G) edge network infrastructures. However, the performance of content retrieval largely depends on...

In a traditional $(H,r)$ combination network, each user connects to a unique set of r relays. However, few research efforts have considered the $(H,r,u)$ multiaccess combination network problem wherein each unique set of r relays is connected by u users....

The limited caching capacity of the local cache enabled Base station (BS) decreases the cache hit ratio (CHR) and user satisfaction ratio (USR). However, Cache enabled multi-tier cellular networks have been presented as a promising candidate for fift...

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 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...

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...

Data caching has emerged as a promising technique to handle growing data traffic and backhaul congestion of wireless networks. However, there is a concern regarding how and where to place contents to optimize data access by the users. Data caching ca...

To solve the transmission correlation issue arising from traditional named data networking (NDN) caching during segmenting contents, where users must obtain data blocks related to the requested file blocks to recover the source data, in this paper, w...

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...

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...

We propose a resilient cache replacement approach based on a Value of sensed Information (VoI) policy. To resolve and fetch content when the origin is not available due to isolated in-network nodes (fragmentation) and harsh operational conditions, we...

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...

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...

Wireless device-to-device (D2D) caching networks are studied, in which n nodes are distributed uniformly at random over the network area. Each node caches M files from the library of size $m\ge M$ and independently requires a file from the li...

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...

Due to the advantages such as high flexibility, low cost and easy implementation offered by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), a UAV-assisted network is regard as an appealing solution to a seamless coverage, high disaster-tolerant and on-demand wirele...

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...

Information dissemination in current Vehicular Sensor Networks (VSN) depends on the physical location in which similar data is transmitted multiple times across the network. This data replication has led to several problems, among which resource cons...

Due to the rapid development of low earth orbit satellite constellations, e.g., Starlink, OneWeb, etc., integrated satellite-terrestrial networks have been viewed as a promising paradigm to globally provide satellite internet services for users. Howe...

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...

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), which is considered a promising and emerging paradigm to provide caching capabilities in proximity to mobile devices in 5G networks, enables fast, popular content delivery of delay-sensitive applications at the backhaul c...

Information-Centric Networking (ICN) is the emerging next-generation internet paradigm. The Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite mega-constellation based on ICN can achieve seamless global coverage and provide excellent support for Internet of Things (IoT...

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...

With the rapid development of cloud computing, big data, and Internet of Things, Information-Centric Networking (ICN) has become a novel hotspot in the field of future Internet architecture, and new problems have appeared. In particular, more researc...