Paper Info
Title
Scalable mobile backhauling via information-centric networking
Abstract
The rapid traffic growth fueled by mobile devices spread and high speed network access calls for substantial innovation at network layer. The content-centric nature of Internet usage highlights the limitations of the host-centric model in coping with dynamic content-to-location binding, mobility, multicast, multi-homing, etc. If transmission capacity speedups in the backhaul may hide inefficiencies in the short term, the hostcentric communication model needs to be revisited to sustain future mobile demand. In this paper, we first identify and quantify the opportunities for backhaul evolution by analyzing a large set of traffic measurements collected between mobile core and backhaul of Orange France. The analysis reveals that 50% of HTTP requests are cacheable and traffic can be reduced from 60% to 95% during the peak hour by using 350GBs to 1TB of memory overall. Motivated by such significant opportunities for latency reduction and network cost savings, we present a solution based on Information-Centric Networking (ICN). First results of a large scale experimentation with 100 Linux servers and customized software, in a realistic network setting, provide a glimpse into ICN gains even under naive caching: a factor three reduction in delivery time and almost 40% bandwidth savings, when compared to existing alternatives.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/LANMAN.2015.7114719
Local and Metropolitan Area Networks
Keywords
Field
DocType
internet,linux,content management,file servers,hypermedia,mobile computing,mobile handsets,telecommunication traffic,http requests,icn,internet usage,linux servers,naive caching,orange france,backhaul evolution,bandwidth savings,customized software,delivery time,dynamic content-to-location binding,high speed network access,host-centric communication model,host-centric model,information-centric networking,latency reduction,mobile devices,network cost savings,network layer innovation,scalable mobile backhauling,traffic growth,traffic measurements,transmission capacity,large scale experimentations,mobile backhaul,mobile communication,servers,bandwidth,network topology
Mobile computing,Mobile search,Backhaul (telecommunications),Computer science,Mobile station,Public land mobile network,Computer network,Information-centric networking,Mobile Web,Network traffic control,Distributed computing
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1944-0375
8
0.45
References 
Authors
8
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Giovanna Carofiglio167342.32
Massimo Gallo248329.87
Luca Muscariello374347.46
Diego Perino474050.54