Cache access and replacement for future wireless Internet

In the last two decades we have witnessed the tremendous success of the Internet and its technologies. Wireless Internet access becomes important to continue this success. However, wireless Internet access suffers from limited battery power, limited bandwidth, high mobility, and an increasing degree of heterogeneity. Cache mechanisms have been proposed to improve access latency, reduce battery power consumption, and reduce bandwidth usage in the wireless Internet. In this article we discuss issues in wireless Internet caching. In particular, we classify and survey cache access mechanisms and replacement algorithms, which should be designed considering both the limitations of wireless networks/devices and heterogeneity of the future wireless Internet.