A Network-Coded Caching-Based Multicasting Scheme for Information-Centric Networking (ICN)

Information-centric networking (ICN) is gradually becoming an alternative approach to the conventional Internet architecture through the distribution of enlightening information (named as content) on the Internet. Given the growing Internet traffic, the adapted information-centric architecture is expected to more favourably serve the user’s need of accessing data. In this paper, we proposed a novel framework for cache management in ICN that jointly considers the caching strategy and network coding. For the proposed cache management framework, we first evaluated a new Centrality-measures to assess the variation in the behaviour of each node in the network and to identify such behaviour. Subsequently, we developed an efficient random network coding-based cache management algorithm to obtain a support for caching and multicasting in the ICN paradigm. Extensive simulations were made, and related results showed that our proposed scheme has better performance in terms of cache hit ratio, average download time, server hit reduction ratio, and traffic overhead compared with other schemes in our simulated scenarios.