Comparative Analysis of Popularity aware Caching Strategies in Wireless-based NDN based IoT Environment

The fundamental objective of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Named Data Networking (NDN) architectures is to facilitate the provision of communication services. The existing Internet infrastructure presents various challenges associated with its location-based architecture, including those related to latency, bandwidth, and power consumption. This paper provides an explanation of the NDN-based IoT caching architecture and discusses the caching module, focusing on the selection of an optimal caching approach to address the aforementioned issues. This study selected two distinct caching categories, namely centrality-based and probability-based approaches. The selection of these caching strategies was based on their prominence within the research community. In order to determine the most optimal caching strategies, the Icarus network simulator is employed to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the selected strategies. The evaluation of the performance is conducted based on several key metrics, including the hit ratio, content retrieval latency, average hop count. The Popularity-Aware Closeness Centrality strategy and the Efficient Popularity-aware Probabilistic Caching strategy demonstrated superior performance when employing centrality-based caching and probabilistic aware caching categories, respectively, in order to enhance network performance.