Table 1 Mobile wireless caching frameworks and related research issues

ICN based network

Every router(on path and off path)

[1, 2, 6, 8–28, 58, 60–62, 65, 68, 70, 80–82, 88, 90, 94–102, 104, 105]

Cellular/wireless based network

Edge based caching (in MBSs, SBSs, APs and user devices)

[4, 29–41, 93, 103, 106, 107]

Ad hoc based network

Edge based caching( in every node and in the server)

[42–48, 59, 89, 92]

Hybrid network

Edge based caching (in APs, BSs and mobile devices)

[3, 5, 7, 49, 51–55, 85, 86, 122]