Content Type Based Jumping Probability Caching Mechanism in NDN

In-network caching, which makes every networking node have a universal cache function, has become a key technology in NDN (named data networking) to achieve efficient access to information and to effectively reduce Internet backbone traffic. When users need to obtain information, any networking node (e.g., router) caching their content can directly provide the corresponding content after receiving their request so as to improve the response efficiency of user requests. However, NDN adopts a ubiquitous caching policy, which caches the content repeatedly and indiscriminately on the transmission path between the content provider and user, resulting in data redundancy and indiscriminate content caching. To this end, we propose a based on content type jumping probability caching mechanism in NDN. According to content features (e.g., delay requirement and bandwidth occupation), we first divide into four content types including dynamic, realtime, big data, and small data. We then build the cache policy with hops pending, which stores data on transmission nodes discontinuously in order to reduce redundant cache in space. Based on content types, we provide differential caching service to reduce redundancy furtherly and to improve the user's efficiency in retrieving content, such as no-cache, networking edge-based probability cache, networking sub-edge-based probability cache, and networking core-based probability cache. The experimental results confirm that the proposed caching mechanism can reduce data redundancy and the latency of content retrieving.