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45 Citations
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Mobility-Aware Proactive Edge Caching Optimization Scheme in Information-Centric IoV Networks

  • Salahadin Seid Musa,
  • Marco Zennaro,
  • Mulugeta Libsie and
  • Ermanno Pietrosemoli

11 February 2022

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...

(This article belongs to the Collection Applications of Internet of Things Networks in 5G and Beyond)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,925 Views
17 Pages

Proactive Caching at the Edge Leveraging Influential User Detection in Cellular D2D Networks

  • Anwar Said,
  • Syed Waqas Haider Shah,
  • Hasan Farooq,
  • Adnan Noor Mian,
  • Ali Imran and
  • Jon Crowcroft

21 September 2018

Caching close to users in a radio access network (RAN) has been identified as a promising method to reduce a backhaul traffic load and minimize latency in 5G and beyond. In this paper, we investigate a novel community detection inspired by a proactiv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,363 Views
18 Pages

10 April 2025

Mobile virtual reality (VR) is considered a killer application for future mobile broadband networks. However, for cloud VR, the long content delivery path and time-varying transmission rate from the content provider’s cloud VR server to the use...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances and Challenges in the Next-Generation Internet of Things (IoT))
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,528 Views
22 Pages

20 November 2023

Optimizingthe cache hit rate in a multi-access edge computing (MEC) system is essential in increasing the utility of a system. A pivotal challenge within this context lies in predicting the popularity of a service. However, accurately predicting popu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence Methods)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,358 Views
25 Pages

3 April 2024

In the mobile edge computing (MEC) environment, the edge caching can provide the timely data response service for the intelligent scenarios. However, due to the limited storage capacity of edge nodes and the malicious node behavior, the question of h...

(This article belongs to the Topic Cloud and Edge Computing for Smart Devices)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,320 Views
20 Pages

27 April 2022

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...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Green Communications under Delay Tolerant Networking)
  • Article
  • Open Access
187 Views
20 Pages

User Mobility-Aware Proactive Video Caching Migration in Mobile Edge Computing

  • Qianyu Cao,
  • Wenhui He,
  • Bing Tang,
  • Jian Luo,
  • Li Zhang and
  • Yujun Cao

23 September 2026

In recent years, the rapid development of short-video platforms has led to a surge in network traffic generated by mobile devices. The frequent changes in user location pose significant challenges to the continuity and smoothness of video content ser...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Advances in Edge Computing and Its Latest Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,202 Views
20 Pages

Mobile Augmented Reality (MAR) applications demand significant communication, computing and caching resources to support an efficient amalgamation of augmented reality objects (AROs) with the physical world in multiple video view streams. In this pap...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quality of Experience (QoE) Management in Softwarized Network Environments)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,251 Views
20 Pages

Deep Learning-Based Content Caching in the Fog Access Points

  • Sovit Bhandari,
  • Navin Ranjan,
  • Pervez Khan,
  • Hoon Kim and
  • Youn-Sik Hong

22 February 2021

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...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Edge Computing for Internet of Things)
  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,228 Views
19 Pages

16 August 2021

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,863 Views
17 Pages

8 June 2019

Due to the high splitting-gain of dense small cells, Ultra-Dense Network (UDN) is regarded as a promising networking technology to achieve high data rate and low latency in 5G mobile communications. In UDNs, each User Equipment (UE) may receive signa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Theory for Data Communications and Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,778 Views
21 Pages

Proactive Caching in D2D Assisted Multitier Cellular Network

  • Fawad Ahmad,
  • Ayaz Ahmad,
  • Irshad Hussain,
  • Ghulam Muhammad,
  • Zahoor Uddin and
  • Salman A. AlQahtani

6 July 2022

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...

(This article belongs to the Section Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,014 Views
17 Pages

Cooperation Based Proactive Caching in Multi-Tier Cellular Networks

  • Fawad Ahmad,
  • Ayaz Ahmad,
  • Irshad Hussain,
  • Peerapong Uthansakul and
  • Suleman Khan

4 September 2020

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...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Human-Centered Computing and Information Security: Recent Advances & Intelligent Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,810 Views
18 Pages

7 September 2022

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...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Multi-Media Network Transmission)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,482 Views
18 Pages

19 January 2022

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...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,492 Views
24 Pages

Two-Hop Cooperative Caching and UAVs Deployment Based on Potential Game

  • Yuan Bian,
  • Jianbo Hu,
  • Shuo Wang,
  • Yukai Hao,
  • Wenjie Liu and
  • Chaoqi Fu

11 July 2023

This paper explores the joint cache placement and 3D deployment of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) groups, utilizing potential game theory and a two-hop UAV cooperative caching mechanism, which could create a tradeoff between latency and coverage. The...

(This article belongs to the Section Drone Communications)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,439 Views
13 Pages

Due to the dynamic mobility feature, the proactive flow rule cache method has become one promising solution in software-defined networking (SDN)-based access networks to reduce the number of flow rule installation procedures between the forwarding no...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied AI-Based Platform Technology and Application)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,173 Views
25 Pages

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
10,078 Views
29 Pages

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
910 Views
15 Pages

Edge Caching Strategies for Seamless Handover in SDN-Enabled Connected Cars

  • Kuljaree Tantayakul,
  • Wasimon Panichpattanakul,
  • Adisak Intana and
  • Parin Sornlertlamvanich

18 November 2025

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...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Software-Defined Networking and Network Function Virtualization)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,848 Views
23 Pages

18 July 2017

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-...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Network Information Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,232 Views
12 Pages

CacheAware: Data Locality-Aware Scheduling for Distributed Memory Systems

  • Haifa A. Alanazi,
  • Abdulaziz G. Alanazi and
  • Nasser S. Albalawi

The widening performance gap between processor speed and memory access latency has made data locality a critical bottleneck in high-performance computing. In Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) and distributed memory systems, remote accesses incur penal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,683 Views
22 Pages

23 June 2019

This paper explores data caching as a key factor of edge computing. State-of-the-art research of data caching on edge nodes mainly considers reactive and proactive caching, and machine learning based caching, which could be a heavy task for edge node...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Edge Computing Applications in IoT)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,913 Views
24 Pages

Joint Content Recommendation and Delivery in Mobile Wireless Networks with Outage Management

  • Yaodong Li,
  • Lingyu Chen,
  • Haibin Shi,
  • Xuemin Hong and
  • Jianghong Shi

15 January 2018

Personalized content retrieval service has become a major information service that consumes a large portion of mobile Internet traffic. Joint content recommendation and delivery is a promising design philosophy that could effectively improve the over...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,193 Views
11 Pages

IBP Based Caching Strategy in D2D

  • Chun Shan,
  • Xiao-ping Wu,
  • Yan Liu,
  • Jun Cai and
  • Jian-zhen Luo

13 June 2019

Device to Device (D2D) communication is a key technology in 5th generation wireless systems to increase communication capacity and spectral efficiency. Applying caching into D2D communication networks, the device can retrieve content from other devic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced DSP Techniques for High-Capacity and Energy-Efficient Optical Fiber Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,061 Views
28 Pages

Multi-Objective Caching Optimization for Wireless Backhauled Fog Radio Access Network

  • Alaa Bani-Bakr,
  • MHD Nour Hindia,
  • Kaharudin Dimyati,
  • Effariza Hanafi and
  • Tengku Faiz Tengku Mohmed Noor Izam

17 April 2021

Proactive content caching in a fog radio access network (F-RAN) is an efficient technique used to alleviate delivery delay and traffic congestion. However, the symmetric caching of the content is impractical due to the dissimilarity among the content...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry and Asymmetry in Communications Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,183 Views
20 Pages

Various kinds of powerful intelligent mobile devices (MDs) need to access multimedia content anytime and anywhere, which places enormous pressure on mobile wireless networks. Fetching content from remote sources may introduce overly long accessing de...

(This article belongs to the Topic Future Internet Architecture: Difficulties and Opportunities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,967 Views
20 Pages

Leveraging Software-Defined Networking for a QoS-Aware Mobility Architecture for Named Data Networking

  • Muhammad Adnan,
  • Jehad Ali,
  • Manel Ayadi,
  • Hela Elmannai,
  • Latifa Almuqren and
  • Rashid Amin

The internet’s future architecture, known as Named Data Networking (NDN), is a creative way to offer content-based services. NDN is more appropriate for content distribution because of its special characteristics, such as naming conventions for...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,663 Views
24 Pages

Joint Successful Transmission Probability, Delay, and Energy Efficiency Caching Optimization in Fog Radio Access Network

  • Alaa Bani-Bakr,
  • Kaharudin Dimyati,
  • MHD Nour Hindia,
  • Wei Ru Wong and
  • Tengku Faiz Tengku Mohmed Noor Izam

The fog radio access network (F-RAN) is considered an efficient architecture for caching technology as it can support both edge and centralized caching due to the backhauling of the fog access points (F-APs). Successful transmission probability (STP)...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Radio Access Network Planning and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,985 Views
14 Pages

31 March 2021

Emerging scale-out I/O intensive applications are broadly used now, which process a large amount of data in buffer/cache for reorganization or analysis and their performances are greatly affected by the speed of the I/O system. Efficient management s...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,755 Views
15 Pages

Proactive Content Delivery with Service-Tier Awareness and User Demand Prediction

  • Jing Hu,
  • Yaling Lai,
  • Ao Peng,
  • Xuemin Hong and
  • Jianghong Shi

Cost-effective delivery of massive data content is a pressing challenge facing modern mobile communication networks. In the literature, two primary approaches to tackle this challenge are service-tier differentiation and personalized proactive conten...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovative Technologies and Services for Smart Cities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,168 Views
20 Pages

28 February 2021

In recent years, cache-enabled vehicles have been introduced to improve the efficiency of content delivery in vehicular networks. However, because of the high dynamic of network topology, it is a big challenge to increase the success probability of c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,856 Views
33 Pages

Refresh Rate-Based Caching and Prefetching Strategies for Internet of Things Middleware

  • Alexey Medvedev,
  • Alireza Hassani,
  • Gleb Belov,
  • Shakthi Weerasinghe,
  • Guang-Li Huang,
  • Arkady Zaslavsky,
  • Seng W. Loke and
  • Prem Prakash Jayaraman

27 October 2023

One of the research directions in Internet of Things (IoT) is the field of Context Management Platforms (CMPs) which is a specific type of IoT middleware. CMPs provide horizontal connectivity between vertically oriented IoT silos resulting in a notic...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
704 Views
30 Pages

A Hybrid Deep Learning Architecture for Content Request Prediction in the Internet of Vehicles

  • Assem Rezki,
  • Lyamine Guezouli,
  • Abderrezak Benyahia,
  • Djallel Eddine Boubiche,
  • Mohamed Zohir Mabane,
  • Sohaib Chine,
  • Homero Toral-Cruz,
  • Rafael Martínez-Peláez and
  • Julio Cesar Ramirez-Pacheco

20 May 2026

Low-latency content delivery is essential in the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) to support autonomous driving, cooperative perception, and infotainment services. However, rapidly changing vehicular mobility and demand patterns limit the effectiveness of...

(This article belongs to the Section Vehicular Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
616 Views
27 Pages

10 March 2026

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...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 2nd Edition of 5G Networks and Wireless Communication Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,177 Views
17 Pages

27 January 2019

Recent interest in applications where content is of primary interest has triggered the exploration of a variety of protocols and algorithms. For such networks that are information-centric, architectures such as the Content-Centric Networking have bee...

(This article belongs to the Section Big Data and Augmented Intelligence)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,908 Views
36 Pages

21 August 2025

Accurate workload prediction is essential for proactive resource allocation in large-scale Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), where traffic patterns are highly dynamic and geographically distributed. This paper introduces a CDN-tailored prediction and...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,672 Views
25 Pages

9 November 2022

Intermittently connected vehicular networks (ICVNs) consist of vehicles moving on roads and stationary roadside units (RSUs) deployed along roads. In ICVNs, the long distances between RSUs and the large volume of vehicular content lead to long downlo...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical and Autonomous Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
347 Views
33 Pages

27 August 2026

Serving large language models (LLMs) on cloud spot and preemptible instances reduces costs by 60 to 90 percent compared to on-demand pricing, but unpredictable instance preemptions cause request failures, KV-cache state loss, and degraded user experi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,989 Views
20 Pages

26 January 2023

Mobile-augmented-reality (MAR) applications extended into the metaverse could provide mixed and immersive experiences by amalgamating the virtual and physical worlds. However, the consideration of joining MAR and the metaverse requires reliable and h...

(This article belongs to the Section Big Data and Augmented Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,162 Views
25 Pages

30 May 2025

This paper seeks to address the limitations of conventional remote sensing data dissemination algorithms, particularly their inability to model fine-grained multi-modal heterogeneous feature correlations and adapt to dynamic network topologies under...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data Fusion and Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,119 Views
22 Pages

Predictive Forwarding Rule Caching for Latency Reduction in Dynamic SDN

  • Doosik Um,
  • Hyung-Seok Park,
  • Hyunho Ryu and
  • Kyung-Joon Park

30 December 2024

In mission-critical environments such as industrial and military settings, the use of unmanned vehicles is on the rise. These scenarios typically involve a ground control system (GCS) and nodes such as unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) and unmanned aer...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Autonomous Robotics and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Addressing Technical Challenges and Advancing Innovation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,797 Views
19 Pages

Optimizing Generative AI Chatbots for Net-Zero Emissions Energy Internet-of-Things Infrastructure

  • Amali Matharaarachchi,
  • Wishmitha Mendis,
  • Kanishka Randunu,
  • Daswin De Silva,
  • Gihan Gamage,
  • Harsha Moraliyage,
  • Nishan Mills and
  • Andrew Jennings

18 April 2024

Internet-of-Things (IoT) technologies have been steadily adopted and embedded into energy infrastructure following the rapid transformation of energy grids through distributed consumption, renewables generation, and battery storage. The data streams...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Energy and Environment)