During the past decades, serious efforts have been made to propose various architectures
for the future Internet. Each of those architectures has one thing in common, ie, to focus on …

Today, content delivery is a heterogeneous ecosystem composed by various independent
infrastructures. The ever increasing growth of Internet traffic has encouraged the proliferation …

Since its inception, the Internet has evolved from a textual information system towards a
multimedia information system, in which data, services and applications are consumed as …

In the previous chapter, various Information-Centric Networking (ICN) architecture proposals
have been reviewed, highlighting the different approaches to achieve an Information-Centric …

In this paper we compare and discuss some of the features and design choices of the
4WARD Networking of Information architecture (NetInf), PARC's Content Centric Networking …

Distribution and manipulation of information over the Internet has been one of the most
popular applications of technology that society has witnessed in the last two decades. Again …

The proliferation of user-generated content available over the Internet and the growing need
for disassociation of the content from its location has introduced a new aspect for the design …

This paper introduces to the alternative internet architecture of information-centric
networking as opposed to the common host-to-host oriented design approach. Since the rise …

Information-Centric Networking (ICN) is set to replace the current internet architecture which
is based on end-to-end communication between hosts. The ICN approach to the network of …

For more than a decade, the inherent drawbacks of current Internet have been calling for its
revolutionary designs. The end-to-end model, which was designed for special data …