A Smart Content Caching and Replacement Scheme for UAV-Assisted Fog Computing Network
Xujie Li, Jichang Shen, Ying Sun, Ziya Wang, Xuedong Zheng · 2020
For unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted fog computing system, content caching is an effective way to reduce network delay. How to smartly sense the future requirement of the user equipment and cache the contents in advance is a big challenge. Meanwhile, the impact of cache content size and other related factors on cache performance are often overlooked, which results in low cache hit ratio. Therefore, this paper proposes a smart caching and caching replacement scheme based on valuation function of content caching for UAV-assisted fog computing network. Firstly, the effect of the content popularity, content size and available cache storage space on system performance is analysed. Then the valuation function combing these factors is defined. Based on the presented valuation function, a smart content caching and caching replacement scheme for UAV-assisted fog computing network is proposed. Finally, the simulation results validate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme. The scheme can be applied into the design the deployment of the UVA-assisted fog computing network.