Research Article

The Effect of Caching on CP and ISP Policies in Information-Centric Networks

Table 1

Summary of notation.

NotationDescription

Number of CPs
Number of items that the CP sells
Number of ISPs
Network access price of
Price to access to the content in the cache of
Quality of service of
Credibility of content of
Caching cost of item provided by
Backhaul bandwidth cost
Price to access to content of
Credibility of content of
Transmission fee of
Sensitivity of to price of
Sensitivity of to QoS of
Sensitivity of to price of
Sensitivity of to price of
Sensitivity of to credibility of content of
The total potential demand of end-users
Demand of through
Backhaul bandwidth
The rank of item
The skewness of the popularity distribution
The sensitivity of the credibility of content to the quality of service
The sensitivity of the credibility of content to the quality of content
The cost to produce a unit of credibility