A reality check for content centric networking

By Diego Perino, Matteo Varvello. Information-Centric Networking, 2011

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Content-Centric Networking (CCN) is a novel networking paradigm centered around content distribution rather than host-to-host connectivity. This change from host-centric to content-centric has several attractive advantages, such as network load reduction, low dissemination latency, and energy efficiency. However, it is unclear whether today's technology is ready for the CCN (r)evolution. The major contribution of this paper is a systematic evaluation of the suitability of existing software and hardware components in today's routers for the support of CCN. Our main conclusion is that a CCN deployment is feasible at a Content Distribution Network (CDN) and ISP scale, whereas today's technology is not yet ready to support an Internet scale deployment.

Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications

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Information centric networking in the IoT: experiments with NDN in the wild (2014, result): “This is extremely small compared to cache sizes expected on types of devices initially targeted by ICN [27, 28].”
Probabilistic in-network caching for information-centric networks (2012, background): “Our results show reduction of up to 20% in server hits, and up to 10% in the number of hops required to hit cached contents, but, most importantly, reduction of cache-evictions by an order of magnitude in comparison to universal caching.”
A Survey of Information-Centric Networking Research (2014, background): “As shown in [80], the content routers in NDN face serious scalability limitations at the inter-domain level, something that also applies to some extent to COMET, which also installs forwarding state at routers.”
Less pain, most of the gain: incrementally deployable ICN (2013, methodology): “, access restrictions and copy right conerns [1]) and economic considerations (at an Internet scale deployment [34]) underlying such an infrastructure [1], and the performance benefits that ICN can provide [18].”