Forwarding data by name has been assumed to be a necessary aspect of an information-centric redesign of the current Internet architecture that makes content access, dissemination, and storage more e cient. e Named Data Networking (NDN) and ContentCentric Networking (CCNx) architectures are the leading examples of such an approach. However, forwarding data by name incurs storage and communication complexities that are orders of magnitude larger than solutions based on forwarding data using addresses. Furthermore, the speci c algorithms used in NDN and CCNx have been shown to have a number of limitations. e Addressable Data Networking (ADN) architecture is introduced as an alternative to NDN and CCNx. ADN is particularly a ractive for large-scale deployments of the Internet of ings (IoT), because it requires far less storage and processing in relaying nodes than NDN. ADN allows things and data to be denoted by names, just like NDN and CCNx do. However, instead of replacing the waist of the Internet with named-data forwarding, ADN uses an address-based forwarding plane and introduces an information plane that seamlessly maps names to addresses without the involvement of end-user applications. Simulation results illustrate the order of magnitude savings in complexity that can be a ained with ADN compared to NDN.
CCS CONCEPTS•Networks →Network architectures; Network design principles; Naming and addressing; KEYWORDS Content-centric networking, IoT, forwarding ACM Reference format: