Producer mobility support scheme for indirection-based mobility approach in named data networking

Named Data Networking (NDN) is a clean-slate future Internet architecture proposed to support content mobility by using hierarchical naming instead of IP addresses for routing. The hierarchical naming structure of NDN offers more benefits in supporting consumer mobility. However, the movements of producer inflict changes in routing name prefix hierarchy, which makes the entire network unaware of the new location of the producer. Thus, it causes some significant challenges, such as unnecessary Interest packet losses, high handoff latency, high signaling overhead cost, poor utilization of bandwidth, and path stretching. The aim of this research is to propose a Producer Mobility Support Scheme (PMSS) in order to minimize the handoff latency, signaling cost, improve data packets delivery via optimal path once a content producer relocated. The proposed PMSS model includes the formulated Mobility Weighted Function to incorporate movement behavior of the mobile producer. Also, Mobility Interest packet was designed to convey binding information and Broadcasting Strategy to facilitate handoff processes by updating the intermediate routers. Therefore, modeling and simulation methodologies were used in the design and performance evaluation of PMSS for rigorous investigation. The analytical result of PMSS scheme outperforms Optimal Producer Mobility for Larger-scale scheme with 50% lower handoff latency and signaling cost. Moreover, it minimizes 46% handoff signaling cost and improves 32% data path optimization as compared to the Kite scheme. The simulation results show that the proposed PMSS scheme minimizes 40% handoff latency, 28% packets delay, 28% unnecessary Interest packets loss, and improves 20% throughput. This study contributes to the development of the movement behavior model and mobility update packets. The findings have significant implication to support seamless mobility and the integration of NDN with other networks without additional mechanism

Cache space efficient caching scheme for content-centric mobile ad hoc networks

Content-centric mobile ad hoc networks (CCMAN) have been demonstrated as a potential complementary to multimedia content dissemination in future wireless networks. In-network caching is one of the key techniques in CCMAN, which can significantly reduce the network traffic load and improve the content retrieval performance. However, the challenges for caching in CCMAN are that all the wireless nodes can act as users and routers simultaneously, and the caching capability of each wireless node is limited by the cache size. So caching strategies should improve not only the caching performance but also the cache space efficiency. In this paper, we study the cache space efficient caching (CSEC) in CCMAN. First, the theoretical performance of caching in CCMAN is analyzed, the cache utility is defined and derived. Then, a CSEC scheme is proposed to improve the efficiency of cache space utilization in CCMAN. Accordingly, the analytical performance of the proposed CSEC in terms of the cache utility of CCMAN is given. The network performance of the proposed CSEC is evaluated by simulation. Simulation results show that the proposed CSEC can achieve optimal performance on cache utility, which can provide a tradeoff between the cache hit ratio performance and occupied cache space