Paper Info
Title
Exploit the known or explore the unknown?: hamlet-like doubts in ICN.
Abstract
Most Information Centric Networking designs propose the usage of widely distributed in-network storage. However, the huge amount of content exchanged in the Internet, and the volatility of content replicas cached across the network pose significant challenges to the definition of a scalable routing protocol able to address all available copies. In addition, the number of available copies of a given content item and their distribution among caches is clearly impacted by the request forwarding policy. In this paper we gather initial design considerations for an ICN request forwarding strategy by spanning over two extremes: a deterministic exploitation of forwarding information towards a "known" copy and a random network exploration towards an "unknown" copy, via request flooding. By means of packet-level simulations, we investigate the performance trade-offs of exploitation/exploration approaches, and introduce an hybrid solution. Our forwarding scheme shows a good potential, whether carefully tuned, in terms of delivery performance, implicit cache coordination and possible reduction of forwarding table size.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1145/2342488.2342491
ICN
Keywords
Field
DocType
delivery performance,content replica,request flooding,forwarding information,available copy,request forwarding policy,hamlet-like doubt,icn request forwarding strategy,forwarding table size,forwarding scheme,content item,network design,routing protocol
Forwarding information base,Forwarding plane,Cache,Computer science,Computer network,Information-centric networking,IP forwarding,Routing table,Virtual routing and forwarding,Packet forwarding,Distributed computing
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
38
1.64
14
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Raffaele Chiocchetti1863.17
Dario Rossi21603111.54
Giuseppe Rossini3863.17
Giovanna Carofiglio467342.32
Diego Perino574050.54