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 …

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 …

The concept of information-centric networking (ICN) defines a new communication model
that focuses on what is being exchanged rather than which network entities are exchanging …

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 …

The information-centric networking (ICN) concept is a significant common approach of
several future Internet research activities. The approach leverages in-network caching …

Abstract Information-Centric Networking (ICN) has attracted the attention of the research
community, which has argued that content, instead of end-points, must be at the center stage …

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Information Centric Networking is an emerging networking
approach that aims to address many of the shortcomings inherent in the Internet Protocol; in …

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 …

Information Centric Networking is a new communication paradigm where network primitives
are based on named-data rather than host identifiers. In ICN, data retrieval is triggered by …