An O(nh) algorithm for dual-server coordinated en-route caching in tree networks

Abstract

Dual-server coordinated en-route caching is important because of its basic features as multi-server en-route caching. In this paper, multi-server coordinated en-route caching is formulated as an optimization problem of minimizing total access cost, including transmission cost for all access demands and caching cost of all caches. We first discuss an algorithm for single-server en-route caching in tree networks and then show that this is a special case of another algorithm for dual-server en-route caching in tree networks whose time complexity is O(nh).