The demand for content oriented service and compute-intensive service stimulates the shift of current cellular networks to deal with the explosive growth in mobile traffic. Information centric mobile caching network architectures have emerged in Information-Centric Networking as well as mobile cellular and ad-hoc networks deployed with caches. Caching optimization based on information centric mobile caching has become the key issue, and several significant research challenges remain to be

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... sed before its widespread adoption. In this paper, a brief survey on Information centric mobile caching network architecture and caching optimization is presented, including cache placement in different mobile wireless network architectures, the taxonomy of cache insertion and eviction policies, the modeling behavior of caching networks as well as caching optimization based on network centric and user centric metrics, and typical applications based on mobile caching. Finally, the research directions and open challenges are investigated.