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A Survey of Information-Centric Networking: The Quest for Innovation

Hitoshi ASAEDA, Kazuhisa MATSUZONO, Yusaku HAYAMIZU, Htet Htet HLAING, Atsushi OOKA

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Information-Centric Networking (ICN) is an innovative technology that provides low-loss, low-latency, high-throughput, and high-reliability communications for diversified and advanced services and applications. In this article, we present a technical survey of ICN functionalities such as in-network caching, routing, transport, and security mechanisms, as well as recent research findings. We focus on CCNx, which is a prominent ICN protocol whose message types are defined by the Internet Research Task Force. To facilitate the development of functional code and encourage application deployment, we introduce an open-source software platform called Cefore that facilitates CCNx-based communications. Cefore consists of networking components such as packet forwarding and in-network caching daemons, and it provides APIs and a Python wrapper program that enables users to easily develop CCNx applications for on Cefore. We introduce a Mininet-based Cefore emulator and lightweight Docker containers for running CCNx experiments on Cefore. In addition to exploring ICN features and implementations, we also consider promising research directions for further innovation.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E107-B No.1 pp.139-153
Publication Date
2024/01/01
Publicized
2023/08/22
Online ISSN
1745-1345
DOI
10.1587/transcom.2023EBI0001
Type of Manuscript
INVITED PAPER
Category
Network

Authors

Hitoshi ASAEDA
  Network Architecture Laboratory at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
Kazuhisa MATSUZONO
  Network Architecture Laboratory at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
Yusaku HAYAMIZU
  Network Architecture Laboratory at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
Htet Htet HLAING
  Network Architecture Laboratory at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
Atsushi OOKA
  Network Architecture Laboratory at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)

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