Efficient caching for data-driven IoT applications and fast content delivery with low latency in ICN

Abstract

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 application services to the proximity devices and end-users for fast content retrieval with a very low response time that fulfills the ultra-low latency goal of the 5G networks. Information-centric networking (ICN) is being acknowledged as an important technology for the fast content retrieval of multimedia content and content-based IoT applications. The main goal of ICN is to change the current location-dependent IP network architecture to location-independent and content-centric network architecture. ICN can fulfill the needs for caching to the vicinity of the edge devices without further storage deployment. In this paper, we propose an architecture for efficient caching at the edge devices for data-intensive IoT applications and a fast content access mechanism based on new clustering and caching procedures in ICN. The proposed cluster-based efficient caching mechanism provides the solution to the problem of the existing hash and on-path caching mechanisms, and the proposed content popularity mechanism increases the content availability at the proximity devices for reducing the content transfer time and packet loss ratio. We also provide the simulation results and mathematical analysis to prove that the proposed mechanism is better than other state-of-the-art caching mechanisms and the overall network efficiencies are increased.