Network-Coding Approach for Information-Centric Networking

Abstract

The current internet architecture is inefficient in fulfilling the demands of newly emerging internet applications. To address this issue, several over-the-top (OTT) application-level solutions have been employed, making the overall architecture very complex. Information-centric-networking (ICN) architecture has emerged as a promising alternative solution. The ICN architecture decouples the content from the host at the network level and supports the temporary storage of content in an innetwork cache. Fundamentally, the ICN can be considered a multisource, multicast content-delivery solution. Because of the benefits of network coding in multicasting scenarios and proven benefits in distributed storage networks, the network coding is apt for the ICN architecture. In this study, we propose a solvable linear network-coding scheme for the ICN architecture. We also propose a practical implementation of the network-coding scheme for the ICN, particularly for the content-centric network (CCN) architecture, which is termed the coded CCN (CCCN). The performance results show that the network-coding scheme improves the performance of the CCN and significantly reduces the network traffic and average download delay.

Secure Distribution of Protected Content in Information-Centric Networking

“…In [11], the authors presented a security framework for the copyrighted video streaming in ICN based on linear random coding. It is proven that the linear random coding alone improves the performance of ICN [12]. However in [11], each video was encrypted with a large number of symmetric encryption keys, such that each video frame was encrypted with a unique symmetric encryption key.…”

“…This concludes that M and P j also satisfy the liveness, weak agreement, and non-injective agreement. Consequently, (11), (12), and the jurisdiction rule conclude G1, i.e.,…”

MICN: a network coding protocol for ICN with multiple distinct interests per generation

“…In L4C2 nodes, request network coded packets in case of data packet losses only. Bilal et al [21] proposed an algebraic framework of Network coding over NDN.…”

Efficient Coded-Block Delivery and Caching in Information-Centric Networking

“…Recently, several studies have shown that network coding can also offer benefits to ICN [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21], as network coding can be employed in ICN to effectively utilize multiple paths and reduce the complexity of the cache coordination. However, due to the ICN caching strategy, the same coded block may be cached by multiple CRs on its forwarding path and provided to the same consumer at a later time in response to their multicast requests [22].…”