Investigation of Cache Maintenance Strategies for Multi-cell Environments
Zhijun Wang8
, Mohan Kumar8
, Sajal K. Das8
and Huaping Shen8 
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Center for Research in Wireless Mobility and Networking (CReWMaN) Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, 76019 Arlington, TX, USA |
Abstract
In this paper, three types of cache consistency maintenance strategies involving invalidation reports (IRs) are proposed for
application in mobile environments. The three strategies: homogeneous IR, inhomogeneous IR without roaming check, and inhomogeneous
IR with roaming check are applied to Timestamp (TS) and Scalable Asynchronous Cache Consistency Scheme (SACCS). Simulation
based performance evaluations show that SACCS performs better than TS. Further investigation of SACCS reveals the following
two cache system design guidelines: (1) Homogeneous IR strategy should be used for fast intra-roaming mobile users (MUs) and
small systems. (2) Inhomogeneous SACCS should be used for inter-roaming MUs while SACCS with roaming check is better if power
is not a consideration.
Acknowledgement: This work is supported by a grant from Texas Advanced Research Program, TXARP Grant Number: 14-771032.
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