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Content Centric Future Internet Architectures

A special issue of Future Internet (ISSN 1999-5903). This special issue belongs to the section "Big Data and Augmented Intelligence".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2019) | Viewed by 9475

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Safdar H. Bouk

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Virginia Modeling Analysis and Simulation Center (VMASC), Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA
Interests: vehicular networks; information-centric networking (ICN); named-data networking (NDN); sensor networks; underwater networks
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The legacy IP-based Internet architecture has been used to communicate contents over the globe. The main objective of the IP-based communication architecture is to identify each node in the network. This node ID is used to establish a communication channel between the source and destination node(s) that could be one or multiple hops apart. In order to achieve secure communication, efforts are focused on protecting the channel instead of securing the content itself. Further, the establishment of a secure channel in the network with intermittent connectivity due to node mobility is always a challenging task. In this regard, several standards have been proposed and researchers from academia and industry are continuously proposing different solutions. However, all research efforts fail to achieve secure and mobility-resilient communication in these networks.

Recently, new future Internet architectures have been proposed that consider content to be the first-class citizen and put it at the center of communication. The most widely researched future Internet architecture is named data networking (NDN), a detailed implementation of its predecessor, called content-centric networking (CCN). NDN inherently secures the content by communicating the security credentials of the content along with it. Each content in NDN is identified and communicated using the URI-like name. Any node that has the matching content simply replies with the content, which doesn’t require the original content producer to reply to the content. This is achieved only by adopting the caching feature, which helps to efficiently distribute the content within the network.

This Special Issue invites original, novel, and high quality solutions for NDN and future Internet architectures. The Special Issue focuses on topics that include, but are not limited to:

  • Efficient caching schemes
  • Interest-data forwarding in NDN
  • Interest-data broadcast control
  • Impact of interest-data broadcast on battery-operated devices
  • Mobility support
  • NDN-based applications
  • Security issues in NDN

Prof. Safdar H. Bouk
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • Efficient Caching Schemes
  • Interest-Data Forwarding in NDN
  • Interest-Data Broadcast control
  • Impact of Interest-Data broadcast on battery operated devices
  • Mobility support
  • NDN-based applications
  • Security issues in NDN

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Location-Based Deferred Broadcast for Ad-Hoc Named Data Networking
by Meng Kuai and Xiaoyan Hong
Future Internet 2019, 11(6), 139; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi11060139 - 24 Jun 2019
Cited by 18 | Viewed by 3777
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The emerging connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) challenge ad hoc wireless multi-hop communications by mobility, large-scale, new data acquisition and computing patterns. The Named Data Networking (NDN) is suitable for such vehicle ad hoc networks due to its information centric networking approach. However, [...] Read more.
The emerging connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) challenge ad hoc wireless multi-hop communications by mobility, large-scale, new data acquisition and computing patterns. The Named Data Networking (NDN) is suitable for such vehicle ad hoc networks due to its information centric networking approach. However, flooding interest packets in ad-hoc NDN can lead to broadcast storm issue. Existing solutions will either increase the number of redundant interest packets or need a global knowledge about data producers. In this paper, a Location-Based Deferred Broadcast (LBDB) scheme is introduced to improve the efficiency and performance of interest broadcast in ad-hoc NDN. The scheme takes advantage of location information to set up timers when rebroadcasting an interest. The LBDB is implemented in V-NDN network architecture using ndnSIM simulator. Comparisons with several existing protocols are conducted in simulation. The results show that LBDB improves the overhead, the average number of hops and delay while maintaining an average satisfaction ratio when compared with several other broadcast schemes. The improvement can help offer timely data acquisition for quick responses in emergent CAV application situations. Full article
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Dynamic SDN Controller Load Balancing
by Hadar Sufiev, Yoram Haddad, Leonid Barenboim and José Soler
Future Internet 2019, 11(3), 75; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi11030075 - 21 Mar 2019
Cited by 39 | Viewed by 4957
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The software defined networking (SDN) paradigm separates the control plane from the data plane, where an SDN controller receives requests from its connected switches and manages the operation of the switches under its control. Reassignments between switches and their controllers are performed dynamically, [...] Read more.
The software defined networking (SDN) paradigm separates the control plane from the data plane, where an SDN controller receives requests from its connected switches and manages the operation of the switches under its control. Reassignments between switches and their controllers are performed dynamically, in order to balance the load over SDN controllers. In order to perform load balancing, most dynamic assignment solutions use a central element to gather information requests for reassignment of switches. Increasing the number of controllers causes a scalability problem, when one super controller is used for all controllers and gathers information from all switches. In a large network, the distances between the controllers is sometimes a constraint for assigning them switches. In this paper, a new approach is presented to solve the well-known load balancing problem in the SDN control plane. This approach implies less load on the central element and meeting the maximum distance constraint allowed between controllers. An architecture with two levels of load balancing is defined. At the top level, the main component called Super Controller, arranges the controllers in clusters, so that there is a balance between the loads of the clusters. At the bottom level, in each cluster there is a dedicated controller called Master Controller, which performs a reassignment of the switches in order to balance the loads between the controllers. We provide a two-phase algorithm, called Dynamic Controllers Clustering algorithm, for the top level of load balancing operation. The load balancing operation takes place at regular intervals. The length of the cycle in which the operation is performed can be shorter, since the top-level operation can run independently of the bottom level operation. Shortening cycle time allows for more accurate results of load balancing. Theoretical analysis demonstrates that our algorithm provides a near-optimal solution. Simulation results show that our dynamic clustering improves fixed clustering by a multiplicative factor of 5. Full article
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