A Survey of Energy-Efficient Caching in Information-Centric Networking

作者:Fang, Chao*; Yu, F. Richard; Huang, Tao; Liu, Jiang; Liu, Yunjie
来源:IEEE Communications Magazine, 2014, 52(11): 122-129.
DOI:10.1109/MCOM.2014.6957152

摘要

To better cope with the Internet usage shift from host-centric end-to-end communication to receiver-driven content retrieval, innovative information-centric networking (ICN) architectures have been proposed. A notable advantage of these novel networking architectures is to provide transparent and ubiquitous in-network caching to speed up content distribution and improve network resource utilization. With the explosive increase of global network traffic, the energy efficiency issue in ICN is a growing concern. In this article, we provide a brief survey of energy-efficient caching techniques in ICN from the placement, content placement, and request-to-cache routing perspectives. We also outline some challenges and future research directions about caching policies for green ICN.