A dominating-set-based collaborative caching with request routing in content centric networking

Content Centric Networking (CCN) is a new emerging network architecture, shifting from an end-to-end connection to a content-centric communication model. A number of content-oriented characteristics, such as name-based routing, arbitrary topology and ubiquitous caching make caching in CCN different from the previous works. In this paper, we focus on the collaborative caching in CCN and propose a dominating-set-based collaborative caching mechanism, which jointly considers the content placement and request routing in a tightly-couple manner. Extensive experiments have been performed to evaluate the proposed scheme. Simulation results show that the proposed CollaCache proposal outperforms the existing caching and routing mechanisms in CCN.