Impact of item popularity and chunk popularity in CCN caching management

Content Centric Network (CCN) has become a heated research topic recently, as it is proposed as an alternative of the future network. The routers in CCN have the caching abilities and the caching strategies affect the system performance greatly. Each content in CCN is associated with a popularity, which is determined by the corresponding requested times. Popularity-aware caching scheme caches the popular content close to users and can lead to better caching performance in terms of smaller average transmission hops traveled. Content popularity significantly affects the overall system performance, and the content size is not considered during the content level popularity (i.e. item popularity) calculation. In this paper, we study the impact of the item popularity and chunk popularity in CCN, where the chunk popularity is the normalized item popularity considering the content size. Extensive simulations are conducted and the simulation results show the advantages and disadvantages of each scheme. A new popularity calculation method is proposed to perform the tradeoff between the item popularity and chunk popularity.