Efficient User-Assisted Content Distribution over Information-Centric Network

Abstract

To solve the fundamental limitations of current Internet in supporting today's content-oriented services, information-centric networking (ICN) concept has been proposed. ICN has attractive features (e.g., name-based routing, in-network caching and multicast) supporting efficient content-oriented services. However, the attractive features may not be fully utilized by all existing contents due to the resources limitation, which means additional technique may be required for improving content-oriented services. In this paper, as one possible way for this, we examine P2P technique exploiting user resources in ICN. We first examine how P2P looks like in ICN. Then, we introduce the contributionaware ICN and corresponding incentive mechanism to utilize the user resources efficiently. We also show how the contribution-aware ICN can be implemented over the existing ICN architectures. Through simulations, we evaluate an effect of user participation on the content distribution performance in ICN. We also verify the feasibility of the contributionaware ICN in terms of resources utilization efficiency.

An ICN-Based On-Path Computing Resource Scheduling Architecture with User Preference Awareness for Computing Network

“…This is typically achieved by adding new protocol layers, utilizing middleware, or extending existing TCP/IP protocols. As a result, they can be relatively easily deployed in current network environments, reducing the need for extensive infrastructure replacement [46,47]. On the other hand, revolutionary ICN architectures advocate for a fundamental redesign of the network, with content-centric concepts as the foundation of network construction.…”

MPCS: A mobility/popularity-based caching strategy for information-centric networks

“…To support today's content-oriented services, Information-Centric Networking (ICN) has been proposed to address the fundamental host address limitation problem [1]. Rather than a host-to-host routing through IP addresses, ICN incorporates the host-to-content routing which better supports contentoriented services that are implemented with new content dissemination techniques, considering user request behaviours and content properties such as location and popularity at the same time [2].…”

“…Existing work either focuses on the caching schemes that provide a good cache hit rate in ICNs [1], or explores the user mobility in mobile networks [3], while few work has considered the user mobility in ICN caching schemes, taking advantage of both the content popularity and user mobility. In this paper, we address this issue in the caching strategies for ICNs with mobile users.…”