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Design and Analysis of Virtualized Caching Service on Cellular Infrastructure

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Seonghoon Moon,

Sunyoung Chung,

Songkuk KimAuthors Info & Claims

MobiWac '17: Proceedings of the 15th ACM International Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access

Pages 45 - 54

https://doi.org/10.1145/3132062.3132077

Published: 21 November 2017 Publication History

Abstract

With the large increases in video content, mobile network operators (MNOs) are persistently seeking to lower their content access latency and backhaul traffic. To mitigate these challenges, operators have started developing an operator-owned content caching system. However, in such networks, it is difficult to provide cost-effective and reliable cache performance for dynamically changing traffic using traditional proprietary network equipment. Meanwhile, network function virtualization (NFV) technology has become a key enabler in providing new business models with reduced costs and enhanced service agility to mobile networks. In addition, dynamic scaling of virtualized network functions can be used to leverage adaptable management of network services on the fly. In this study, we introduce a system architecture of MNO-driven virtualized caching-service based on an NFV standard platform that uses an integer linear programming (ILP)-based centralized optimization algorithm. Our proposed system employs mainly two techniques: a hierarchical caching model and a hybrid (centralized and distributed) orchestration scheme to optimize cache function with fine-grained control. Through experiments, we show that the conceptual MNO caching service is an effective strategy for reducing the traffic burden and enhancing the quality of service (QoS) for streaming video.

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Bastos IMoraes INguyen TPujolle G(2022)Content Media Retrieval using Virtual Network Functions in Multi‐access Edge Computing architectureInternational Journal of Network Management10.1002/nem.220832:5Online publication date: 27-May-2022
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Coutinho RBoukerche A(2020)Modeling and Analysis of a Shared Edge Caching System for Connected Cars and Industrial IoT-Based ApplicationsIEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics10.1109/TII.2019.293852916:3(2003-2012)Online publication date: Mar-2020
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Index Terms

Design and Analysis of Virtualized Caching Service on Cellular Infrastructure
1. Networks
  1. Network algorithms
    1. Control path algorithms
      1. Network resources allocation
      2. Traffic engineering algorithms
  2. Network services
    1. Network management

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MobiWac '17: Proceedings of the 15th ACM International Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access

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DOI:10.1145/3132062

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Barrios CKumar M(2023)Service Caching and Computation Reuse Strategies at the Edge: A SurveyACM Computing Surveys10.1145/360950456:2(1-38)Online publication date: 20-Jul-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3609504
Bastos IMoraes INguyen TPujolle G(2022)Content Media Retrieval using Virtual Network Functions in Multi‐access Edge Computing architectureInternational Journal of Network Management10.1002/nem.220832:5Online publication date: 27-May-2022
https://doi.org/10.1002/nem.2208
Coutinho RBoukerche A(2020)Modeling and Analysis of a Shared Edge Caching System for Connected Cars and Industrial IoT-Based ApplicationsIEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics10.1109/TII.2019.293852916:3(2003-2012)Online publication date: Mar-2020
https://doi.org/10.1109/TII.2019.2938529

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