Cooperative caching mechanism with content migration in content-centric networking

Content-Centric Networking (CCN) is a new Internet architecture with native support for scalable and efficient content acquisition, which is proposed to accommodate the changes in future communication mode. Content caching is one of the key issues in CCN. In some existing work, the choice of caching nodes is over-focused on few special nodes, which results in an uneven distribution of cached contents. It greatly decreases the utilization of network resources and impairs the overall caching performance. In this paper, a Cooperative Caching Mechanism with Content Migration (CCMCM) is proposed. In this scheme, the centrality of node is considered in the selection of caching nodes to ensure that contents can be cached in the more important nodes as much as possible. When the cached contents are extensive, the caching node can transfer some contents to the appropriate neighbor according to the cache space available, the cache replacement rate and the connection stability between nodes. The aim is to fully utilize the resource of neighbor nodes and achieve effective load distribution. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme improves the load balance among caching nodes, increases the resource utilization and achieves high cache hit rate with low average access cost. © 2015, Science Press. All right reserved.