Scaling Laws of the Throughput Capacity and Latency in Information-Centric Networks
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Scaling Laws of the Throughput Capacity and Latency in Information-Centric Networks

Abstract

Wireless information-centric networks consider storage as one of the network primitives, and propose to cache data within the network in order to improve latency and reduce bandwidth consumption. We study the throughput capacity and delay in an information-centric network when the data cached in each node has a limited lifetime. The results show that with some fixed request and cache expiration rates, the order of the data access time does not change with network growth, and the maximum throughput order is inversely proportional to the square root and logarithm of the network size $n$ in cases of grid and random networks, respectively. Comparing these values with the corresponding throughput and latency with no cache capability (throughput inversely proportional to the network size, and latency of order $\sqrt{n}$ and $\sqrt{\frac{n}{\log n}}$ in grid and random networks, respectively), we can actually quantify the asymptotic advantage of caching. Moreover, we compare these scaling laws for different content discovery mechanisms and illustrate that not much gain is lost when a simple path search is used.

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