Cache allocation and searching method using self-organizing map for information-centric networking

Abstract

Information-centric networking (ICN) is attracting interest as a next-generation network architecture that sends contents using a content ID instead of an IP address. While the ICN architecture is expected to reduce the overhead related to Internet usage and enable highly efficient content delivery, it is difficult to achieve highly efficient content discovery using only a content ID because of suboptimal cache allocation. We propose an ICN control method that uses content attribute vectors for similarity instead of content IDs and executes cache allocation and search using a self-organizing map.