Time Slot Correlation-Based Caching Strategy for Information-Centric Satellite Networks

With the successful manufacture of highly stable and high-performance satellite processors, caching on satellites has become possible. Information Centric Networking (ICN) is introduced to satellite networks to address the growing need for diverse data services. However, existing caching policies in ICN still suffer from the shortage of rational planning of cache locations and redundancy of cache contents. Consequently, the time slot correlation-based caching strategy for satellite networks (TSCCS) is proposed. Firstly, the index of time slot correlation is designed to quantify the neighboring time slots’ coupling relationship, and then the DSAM network model with time slot correlation is established. Secondly, the significance of satellite nodes is evaluated from the local and global perspectives respectively based on the eigenvector centrality algorithm to filter out the dynamic set of cache nodes. Finally, probabilistic caching is performed at the set of caching nodes with the goal of reducing cached content redundancy, considering content popularity and access delay. The simulated outcomes indicate that the TSCCS caching policy is superior to the comparison method in the areas of cache hit rate, request latency, and server load.