Information-Centric Networking
Information-centric networking (ICN) is an approach to evolve the Internet infrastructure away from a host-centric paradigm based on perpetual connectivity and the end-to-end principle, to a network architecture in which the focal point is “named information” (or content or data). ICN is a clean-slate redesign of the current Internet infrastructure tries to solve the problems confronting the current Internet, e.g., content distribution efficiency, security, network congestion .In this paradigm,connectivity may well be intermittent, end-host and in-network storage can be capitalized upon transparently, as bits in the network and on data storage devices have exactly the same value, mobility and multi access are the norm and anycast, multicast, and broadcast are natively supported. Data becomes independent from location, application, storage, and means of transportation, enabling in-network caching and replication. The expected benefits are improved efficiency, better scalability with respect to information/bandwidth demand and better robustness in challenging communication scenarios.Meanwhile, ICN also poses new challenges on cache management, content addressing routing and etc.
Contents [hide]
Research Projects
US based
Europe based
IRTF Working Group
The Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) is sponsoring a research group on Information-Centric Networking Research which serves as a forum for the exchange and analysis of ICN research ideas and proposals.