Research Article

Social-Aware Caching Strategy Based on Joint Action Deep Reinforcement Learning

Table 1

Summary of notations.

NotationInterpretation

The number of active users
The number of inactive users
Remaining space size of inactive user
Delay of download contents
Delay threshold
Trust degree between user m and user
Similarity between user and user
Cache hit ratio
State at decision epoch
A joint action at a decision epoch
Reward at a decision epoch
Discount rate
Explore rate