Limitations of Caching in Mobile Social Media Applications

Mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, are often referred to as resource-constrained devices due to the limitations imposed by the hardware, interaction modalities, and the network environment. Expensive capped data plans and unreasonable data roaming charges often impose a constraint on the usage of cellular data for mobile device users. And yet, mobile devices remain the most popular platform for consuming social media content given the high popularity of platforms like TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook. This work reviews existing approaches to media caching and focuses on a novel mobile data caching strategy leveraging semantic properties of data on mobile social media platforms.