7. Conclusion
In this paper, we investigate the characteristics of arbitrary network topology and dynamic request routing requirement of CCN innetwork caching. In response to these characteristics, we propose a complete model to formulate the coupled content placement and request routing problem under link bandwidth and cache space constraints, aiming at maximizing the bandwidth cost savings. Experiments validate the effectiveness of the proposed model and show that content popularity, cache size allocation among routers, total cache size capacity and number of direct links are important factors and significantly affects the network performance. There are several directions for future works. First, as we mentioned earlier, the in-network caching system is highly dynamic. It is thus wise to investigate how the temporal dynamics impact the coordination of content placement and dynamic request routing. Second, our work replies on the length of each time slot and the setting of Lagrangian multiplier. Therefore, it is important yet challenging to analyze the impact of time slot division on the convergence of Lagrangian multiplier.