Information-Centric Networking in next-generation communications scenarios

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• 作者：Alessandro Morelli^a ; ^{alessandro.morelli@unife.it} ; Mauro Tortonesi^a ; ^{mauro.tortonesi@unife.it} ; Cesare Stefanelli^a ; ^{cesare.stefanelli@unife.it} ; Niranjan Suri^b ; ^c ; ^{niranjan.suri.civ@mail.mil} ; ^{nsuri@ihmc.us}
• 关键词：Information-Centric Networking ; Next-generation communications scenarios ; Heterogeneous networks ; Information dissemination channels ; Network simulation
• 刊名：Journal of Network and Computer Applications
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：15 February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：80
• 期：Complete
• 页码：232-250
• 全文大小：1378 K
• 卷排序：80

文摘

Next-generation networking environments, characterized by the overlapping of wireless networks of different types, are emerging as a new and extremely interesting scenario. Their high dynamicity and heterogeneity present significant challenges from the communications perspective, which call for the adoption of new paradigms based on opportunistic and Information-Centric Networking (ICN) approaches. Applications operating in next-generation environments have peculiar characteristics that could benefit from ICN-based middleware solutions. This paper presents ICeDiM, a middleware we designed for ICN communications in next-generation scenarios, which builds on top of the innovative concept of Application-level Dissemination Channels (ADCs) with tunable permeability levels. A thorough and in-depth experimental evaluation of ICeDiM in a next-generation environment realistically simulated using ICeONE, a modified version of the well-known ONE simulator, demonstrates that our approach can achieve very good performance levels in terms of delivery ratio and network resource consumption.