Resources management in virtualized Information Centric Wireless Network

Information-Centric Networking (ICN) and Wireless Network Virtualization (WNV) are two emerging technologies for the next-generation network infrastructure. ICN provides the key technology to reduce the network traffic by caching the contents temporarily and aggregating the same content requests. WNV enables the resources sharing among Infrastructure Providers (InPs) and Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs), to reduce capital expenditures and operating expenses. Also, the network resource management becomes easier because of WNV. In this paper, we combine these two technologies to improve the performance of the network and the profit of the MVNOs. We formulate the optimization problem to solve the cache allocation problem and maximize the profit of MVNOs by controlling the usage of cache space, backhaul link, and radio resources. Finally, we validate our proposed scheme using a chunk-level simulator. The simulation results show that the proposed mechanism can improve the profit of MVNOs and user's QoS.