Color-Based Cooperative Cache and Its Routing Scheme for Telco-CDNs

Takuma NAKAJIMA, Masato YOSHIMI, Celimuge WU, Tsutomu YOSHINAGA

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Cooperative caching is a key technique to reduce rapid growing video-on-demand's traffic by aggregating multiple cache storages. Existing strategies periodically calculate a sub-optimal allocation of the content caches in the network. Although such technique could reduce the generated traffic between servers, it comes with the cost of a large computational overhead. This overhead will be the cause of preventing these caches from following the rapid change in the access pattern. In this paper, we propose a light-weight scheme for cooperative caching by grouping contents and servers with color tags. In our proposal, we associate servers and caches through a color tag, with the aim to increase the effective cache capacity by storing different contents among servers. In addition to the color tags, we propose a novel hybrid caching scheme that divides its storage area into colored LFU (Least Frequently Used) and no-color LRU (Least Recently Used) areas. The colored LFU area stores color-matching contents to increase cache hit rate and no-color LRU area follows rapid changes in access patterns by storing popular contents regardless of their tags. On the top of the proposed architecture, we also present a new routing algorithm that takes benefit of the color tags information to reduce the traffic by fetching cached contents from the nearest server. Evaluation results, using a backbone network topology, showed that our color-tag based caching scheme could achieve a performance close to the sub-optimal one obtained with a genetic algorithm calculation, with only a few seconds of computational overhead. Furthermore, the proposed hybrid caching could limit the degradation of hit rate from 13.9% in conventional non-colored LFU, to only 2.3%, which proves the capability of our scheme to follow rapid insertions of new popular contents. Finally, the color-based routing scheme could reduce the traffic by up to 31.9% when compared with the shortest-path routing.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E100-D No.12 pp.2847-2856
Publication Date
2017/12/01
Publicized
2017/07/14
Online ISSN
1745-1361
DOI
10.1587/transinf.2017PAP0014
Type of Manuscript
Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networking)
Category
Information networks

Authors

Takuma NAKAJIMA
  University of Electro-Communications
Masato YOSHIMI
  University of Electro-Communications
Celimuge WU
  University of Electro-Communications
Tsutomu YOSHINAGA
  University of Electro-Communications

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