A novel metric for cache size allocation scheme in Content Centric Networking

Caching scheme will change the original feature of the network in Content Centric Networking (CCN). So it becomes a challenge to describe the caching node importance according to network traffic and user behavior. In this work, a new metric named Request Influence Degree (RID) is defined to reflect the degree of node importance. Then the caching performance of CCN has been addressed with specially focusing on the size of individual CCN router caches. Finally, a newly content store space heterogeneous allocation scheme based on the metric RID across the CCN network has been proposed. Numerical experiments reveal that the new scheme can decrease the routing stretch and the source server load contrasting that of the homogeneous assignment and several graph-related centrality metrics allocations.