Optimized Cooperative Caching Scheme for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks Over IoT Systems

Mobile Ad-hoc Networks over the Internet of Things (MANET-IoT) systems combine Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) and Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANET)s with the Internet of Things (IoT) to enhance user mobility and reduce network deployment costs. This paper introduces an Optimized Cooperative Caching Scheme (OCCS) for caching in MANET-IoT systems. OCCS partitions the MANET-IoT into regions, where each region acting as a fog region managed by a Master Server (MS). The MS monitors and manages data objects, applying cache replacement policies to sink node (SN) in the region. Unlike traditional cache schemes, OCCS proactively manages cache without waiting for requests from SN nodes. By continuously monitoring data object status and exchanging this information among SNs. Experimental results show that OCCS efficiently utilizes memory capabilities and improves MANET-IoT performance in terms of network throughput, latency, and cache hit ratio.