Analyzing replacement policies in list-based caches with non-uniform access costs
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Author(s)
Casale, G
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
List-based caches can offer lower miss rates than single-list caches, but their analysis is challenging due to state-space explosion. We analyze in this setting randomized replacement policies for caches with non-uniform access costs. In our model, costs can depend on the stream a request originated from, the target item, and the list that contains it. We first show that, similarly to the uniform-cost case, the random replacement (RR) and first-in first-out (FIFO) policies can be exactly analyzed using a product-form expression for the equilibrium state probabilities of the cache. We then tackle the state space explosion by means of the singular perturbation method, deriving limiting expressions for the equilibrium performance measures as the number of items and the cache capacity grow in a fixed ratio. Simulations indicate that our asymptotic formulas rapidly converge to the cache equilibrium distribution.
Date Issued
2018-10-11
Date Acceptance
2017-11-27
Citation
IEEE INFOCOM 2018 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, 2018
ISBN
9781538641293
Publisher
IEEE
Journal / Book Title
IEEE INFOCOM 2018 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications
Copyright Statement
© 2018 The Authors.
Sponsor
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Commission of the European Communities
Grant Number
EP/L00738X/1
644869
Source
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2018
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2018-04-16
Finish Date
2018-04-19
Coverage Spatial
Honolulu, HI, USA
Date Publish Online
2018-10-11