Caching of Content-Centric Networking under bursty content requests

The rapid development in wireless technologies and multimedia services has given rise to new requirements for the Internet, such as supporting billions of mobile devices and transmitting huge amount of multimedia content in real time. Content-Centric Networking (CCN), a future Internet architecture for efficient content dissemination, has been attracting ever-increasing attention from both academia and industry. In this paper, a new analytical model is developed as a cost-effective tool to investigate the performance of caching in CCN under bursty content requests. The accuracy of the model is validated through comparing the analytical results with those obtained from the extensive simulation experiments. As an example of its applications, the analytical model is used to investigate the effects of the cache size, content size, and bursty content requests on the cache hit ratio in CCN.