A Novel Content Popularity and Distance based Interval Caching Strategy for Named Data Mobile Ad-hoc Network (NDMANET)

Information Centric Networking (ICN) is a promising future networking architecture, and Named Data Networking (NDN) is considered to be its authoritative and representative scheme. In recent years, applying ICN/NDN concept in Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET), i.e. Name Data Mobile Ad-hoc Network (NDMANET), becomes a research hotspot. Compared with traditional IP protocol, NDN scheme is thought to be more robust and profitable to the node mobility and dynamically changed topologies in MANET. This paper focuses on NDMANET's in-networking caching strategy, which provides a great flexibility and efficiency for data dissemination and is a vital feature of NDMANET. Firstly, the paper investigates and analyzes some existing caching strategies which are widely applied in the ICN/NDN domain. On that basis, a novel Content Popularity and Distance based Interval (CPDI) caching strategy is derived for NDMANET, with the purpose of improving its network performance. Comprehensive simulation experiments have been carried out and the results illustrate that the proposed CPDI caching strategy can introduce considerable improvements on the average cache hit ratio, the average number of cached data packets, and the average energy consumption with only slightly degrading the average download delay.