OL-MEDC: An Online Approach for Cost-effective Data Caching in Mobile Edge Computing Systems
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2023
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Xia, X.
Chen, F.
He, Q.
Cui, G.
Grundy, J.
Abdelrazek, M.
Bouguettaya, A.
Jin, H.
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IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2023; 22(3):1646-1658
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Xiaoyu Xia, Feifei Chen, Qiang He, Guangming Cui, John Grundy, S Mohamed Abdelrazek, Athman Bouguettaya, and Hai Jin
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Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) has emerged to overcome the inability of cloud computing to offer low latency services. It allows popular data to be cached on edge servers deployed within users' geographic proximity. However, the storage resources on edge servers are constrained due to their limited physical sizes. Existing studies of edge caching have predominantly focused on maximizing caching performance from the mobile network operator's perspective, e.g., maximizing data retrieval success rate, minimizing system energy consumption, balancing the overall caching workload, etc. App vendors, as key stakeholders in MEC systems, need to maximize the caching revenue, considering the cost incurred and the benefit produced. We investigate this novel Mobile Edge Data Caching (MEDC) problem from the app vendor's perspective, and prove its NP-hardness. We then propose Online MEDC (OL-MEDC), an approach that formulates MEDC strategies for app vendors, without requiring future information about data demands. Its performance is theoretically analyzed and experimentally evaluated. The experimental results demonstrate that OL-MEDC outperforms state-of-the-art approaches by at least 20.41% on average.
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