Research Article

Popularity-Aware In-Network Caching for Edge Named Data Network

Table 3

Simulation parameters.

TypeName of parameterValue

NetworkBasic network topologyBinary tree
Network level5-level
Link capacity to cloud1 Gbps
Link capacity in edge100 Mbps
Propagation delay to cloud500 ms
Propagation delay in edge1 ms
PublishTotal number of contents100,000 {20,000~ 100,000}
Content update cycle5 s
RequestNumber of user nodes16 {16~ 81}
Request frequency200/s {100~ 300}
Request generationPoisson
Content popularityZipf-Mandelbrot
Zipf parameters (q&s)1.0 and 1.0
CachingCaching eviction strategyLRU {Random, LFU, FIFO, TTL}
Caching node capacity50
Payload size (content size)1024 Byte
Pop caching threshold 0.6
SimulationSimulation duration time201 s