A Novel Deep Federated Learning-Based and Profit-Driven Service Caching Method

Service caching is an emerging solution to addressing massive service request in a distributed environment for supporting rapidly growing services and applications. With the explosive increases in global mobile data traffic, service caching over the edge computing architecture, Mobile edge computing (MEC), emerges for alleviating traffic congestion as well as for optimizing the efficiency of task processing. In this manuscript, we propose a novel profit-driven service caching method based on a federated learning model for service prediction and a deep reinforcement learning mode for yielding caching decisions (FPDRD) in an edge environment. The proposed method is temporal service popularity and user preference-aware. It aims to ensure quality of service (QoS) of delivery of cached service while maximizing the profits of network service providers. Experimental results clearly demonstrate that the FPDRD method outperforms traditional methods in multiple aspects.