Publication Date
2018
Journal or Book Title
IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS
Abstract
This paper has the following ambitious goal: to convince the reader that content caching is an exciting research topic for the future communication systems and networks. Caching has been studied for more than 40 years, and has recently received increased attention from industry and academia. Novel caching techniques promise to push the network performance to unprecedented limits, but also pose significant technical challenges. This tutorial provides a brief overview of existing caching solutions, discusses seminal papers that open new directions in caching, and presents the contributions of this special issue. We analyze the challenges that caching needs to address today, also considering an industry perspective, and identify bottleneck issues that must be resolved to unleash the full potential of this promising technique.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/JSAC.2018.2844939
Pages
1111-1125
Volume
36
Issue
6
License
UMass Amherst Open Access Policy
Recommended Citation
Paschos, Georgios S.; Iosifidis, George; Tao, Meixia; Towsley, Don; and Caire, Giuseppe, "The Role of Caching in Future Communication Systems and Networks" (2018). IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS. 1339.
https://doi.org/10.1109/JSAC.2018.2844939