CAVE: Caching 360° Videos at the Edge

Ahmed Ali-Eldin, Chirag Goel, Mayank Jha, Bo Chen, Klara Nahrstedt, Prashant Shenoy

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Abstract

While 360° videos are gaining popularity due to the emergence of VR technologies, storing and streaming such videos can incur up to 20X higher overheads than traditional HD content. Edge caching, which involves caching and serving 360° videos from edge servers, is one possible approach for addressing these overheads. Prior work on 360° video caching has been based on using past history to cache tiles that are likely to be in a viewer's field of view and has not considered methods to intelligently share a limited edge cache across a set of videos that exhibit large variations in their popularity, size, content, and user abandonment patterns. Towards this end, we present CAVE, an adaptive edge caching framework that intelligently optimizes cache allocation across a set of videos taking into account video content, size, and popularity. Our experiments using realistic video workloads shows CAVE improves cache hit-rates, and thus network saving, by up to 50% over state-of-the-art approaches, while also scaling to up to two thousand videos per edge cache. In addition, in terms of scalability, our developed algorithm is embarrassingly parallel, allowing CAVE to scale beyond state-of-the-art solutions that typically do not support parallelization.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationNOSSDAV 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video, Part of MMSys 2022
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages50-56
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9781450393836
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 17 2022
Event32nd ACM Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video, NOSSDAV 2022 - Athlone, Ireland
Duration: Jun 17 2022 → …

Publication series

NameNOSSDAV 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video, Part of MMSys 2022

Conference

Conference32nd ACM Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video, NOSSDAV 2022
Country/TerritoryIreland
CityAthlone
Period6/17/22 → …

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Software

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