Document Type

Article

Publication Date

5-1-2022

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Source Publication

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Source ISSN

1536-1233

Abstract

In this paper, the content service provision of information-centric vehicular networks (ICVNs) is investigated from the aspect of mobile edge caching, considering the dynamic driving-related context information. To provide up-to-date information with low latency, two schemes are designed for cache update and content delivery at the roadside units (RSUs). The roadside unit centric (RSUC) scheme decouples cache update and content delivery through bandwidth splitting, where the cached content items are updated regularly in a round-robin manner. The request adaptive (ReA) scheme updates the cached content items upon user requests with certain probabilities. The performance of both proposed schemes are analyzed, whereby the average age of information (AoI) and service latency are derived in closed forms. Surprisingly, the AoI-latency trade-off does not always exist, and frequent cache update can degrade both performances. Thus, the RSUC and ReA schemes are further optimized to balance the AoI and latency. Extensive simulations are conducted on SUMO and OMNeT++ simulators, and the results show that the proposed schemes can reduce service latency by up to 80% while guaranteeing content freshness in heavily loaded ICVNs.

Comments

Accepted version. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 21, No. 5 (May 1, 2022): 1723-1738. DOI. © 2022 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Used with permission.

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