A Versatile Markov Chain Model for the Performance Analysis of CCN Caching Systems

Beyond Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), Network Operators (NOs) are developing caching capabilities within their own network infrastructure, in order to face the rise in data consumption and to avoid the potential congestion at peering links. These factors explain the enthusiasm of industry and academics around the Content-Centric Networking (CCN) concept and its in-network caching feature. Many contributions focused these last years on improving the caching performance of CCN. In this paper, we propose a very versatile model capable of modeling the most efficient caching strategies. We first start by representing a single generic cache node. We then extend our model for the case of a network of caches. The obtained results are used to derive, in particular, the cache hit probability of a content in such caching systems. Using a discrete event simulator, we show the accuracy of the proposed model under different network configurations.