A Survey of Energy-Efficient Caching in Information-Centric Networking

To better cope with the Internet usage shift from host-centric end-to-end communication to receiver-driven content retrieval, innovative information-centric networking (ICN) architectures have been proposed. A notable advantage of these novel networking architectures is to provide transparent and ubiquitous in-network caching to speed up content distribution and improve network resource utilization. With the explosive increase of global network traffic, the energy efficiency issue in ICN is a growing concern. In this article, we provide a brief survey of energy-efficient caching techniques in ICN from the placement, content placement, and request-to-cache routing perspectives. We also outline some challenges and future research directions about caching policies for green ICN.