Peer-to-Peer Cooperative Caching in Mobile Environments

  • Authors:
  • Chi-Yin Chow;Hong Va Leong;Alvin Chan

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ICDCSW '04 Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops - W7: EC (ICDCSW'04) - Volume 7
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Caching is a key technique for improving the data retrievalperformance of mobile clients in mobile environments.The emergence of robust and reliable peer-to-peer(P2P) technologies now brings to reality what we call "cooperativecaching" in which mobile clients can access dataitems from the cache in their neighboring peers. This paperdiscusses cooperative caching in mobile environments andproposes a COoperative CAching scheme for mobile systems,called COCA. In COCA, we identify two types of mobileclients: low activity and high activity. They are referredto as Low Activity Mobile client/host (LAM) and High ActivityMobile client/host (HAM) respectively. Both LAM andHAM can share their cache. The server replicates appropriatedata items to LAMs so that HAMs can take advantagesof the LAM replicas. The performance of pure COCAand COCA with the data replication scheme is evaluatedthrough a number of simulated experiments which show thatCOCA signi.cantly reduces both the server workload interms of number of requests and the access miss ratio whenthe MHs reside outside of the service area. The COCA withthe data replication scheme can improve the overall systemperformance in other aspects as well.