A case for ICN usage in IoT environments

Abstract

Information-Centric Networking (ICN) has recently emerged as a promising Future Internet architecture that aims to cope with the increasing demand for highly scalable and efficient distribution of content. Moving away from the Internet communication model based in addressable hosts, ICN leverages in-network storage for caching, multi-party communication through replication, and interaction models that decouple senders and receivers. This novel networking approach has the potential to outperform IP in several dimensions, besides just content dissemination. Concretely, the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT), with its rich set of challenges and requirements placed over the current Internet, provide an interesting ground for showcasing the contribution and performance of ICN mechanisms. This work analyses how the in-network caching mechanisms associated to ICN, particularly those implemented in the Content-Centric Networking (CCN) architecture, contribute in IoT environments, particularly in terms of energy consumption and bandwidth usage. A simulation comparing IP and the CCN architecture (an instantiation of ICN) in IoT environments demonstrated that CCN leads to a considerable reduction of the energy consumed by the information producers and to a reduction of bandwidth requirements, as well as highlighted the flexibility for adapting current ICN caching mechanisms to target specific requirements of IoT.

Semantic Features for Context Organization

“…Machine learning algorithms, specially pattern matching algorithms, can use a concept tree to prune large portions of lesser relevant information. Finally, these aspects could provide a decisive contribution towards the exploration of name-based information centric network architectures in IoT environments [13]. Namely, the application of inference mechanisms into the contentreaching operations of the networking fabric itself can be used to have the network better mimic the complex relationships between devices (e.g., sensors, actuators), their generated content (e.g., temperature values with different units) and its dissemination towards interested entities.…”

Future of IoT Networks: A Survey

“…In the IoT environment, it is crucial to manage the information such as affiliated node attributes, identification of holding contents, and network status, in the group by the network management object to successfully utilize an information-centric network (ICN) [100,101] or content-distributed network (CDN). Further, these types of information should be shared by the content management server or neighbor network management object to effectively conduct context-based multi-connection or content-based routing.…”

Multi-Device to Multi-Device (MD2MD) Content-Centric Networking Based on Multi-RAT Device

“…By caching content in the content store of the router, which exists in the path, the dispersion of content requests and acquisitions is facilitated [8,9,11]. These characteristics of CCN can reduce the complexity of autoconfiguration mechanisms relative to the layered protocol stack-based approach, with CCN being suitable for an IoT environment [10].…”