Abstract Information-Centric Network (ICN) is a new architecture for Internet that focuses on
shifting the current Internet's host-oriented approach to content-oriented one. This chapter …

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 …

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 …

Currently, there are a number of research efforts world-wide considering the Future Internet,
many of them following a clean-slate approach and investigating novel internet architectures …

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 …

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

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 …

In the past decades, there have been traditional network architectures that were responsible
for routing data between various nodes using different types of IP addresses through a …

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

Today, the ever-increasing proliferation of high-performance mobile nodes (tablets, smart
phones and others) and user-driven information-disseminating services such as SNS (social …