Arumaithurai, Mayutan

Users are primarily interested in obtaining content and do not care much about where
they obtain the Content from. But, the Internet as it is currently designed is very
host-centric and places importance on the hosts establishing connection between them.
Therefore, when a certain piece of data needs to be obtained, the Internet facilitates reliable connection between the two nodes, i.e., the node interested in the data and the node
with the data. If an established connection is broken, e.g. due to mobility, the infrastructure primarily focuses on re-establishing the broken connection. Recent technologies
and solutions such as Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), Peer-to-peer (P2P) and cloud
try to shift the focus on the content. However, they have limitations in features they
could support due to the underlying reliance on the host-centric TCP/IP.
Information Centric Networking (ICN) is a new paradigm where the network provides
users with named content, instead of communication channels between hosts. ICN treats
content as the first-class entity, with nodes exchanging information based on the names
of the content instead of the IP addresses of the end points requesting or providing
the content. This shift from a ”location-based” network to a ”content-centric” network
allows more efficient data dissemination, especially when the content may be available
at multiple points, or the provider or consumer is mobile. A major assumption of many
of the ICN solutions is the presence of a powerful data-plane that could be exploited to
provide more functionality.
This dissertation work started at a time when research on ICN was at an early stage
and many key issues were still open. Key areas that this dissertation work addressed
are: 1) the shortcomings of existing solutions to provide a full-fledged solution for efficient pub/sub communication in ICN; 2) incremental deployment strategy; 3) an efficient
framework to support real-time applications such as gaming; 4) a congestion control
protocol for multicast communication; 5) inability of the existing solutions to support a
disaster; and 6) how ICN could be used in other application scenarios such as Network
Management.
This dissertation is influenced by and built on research contributions by other peers.
Moreover it mainly comprises of peer-reviewed publications and therefore the solutions
have been vetted by the community. However, this dissertation is by no means the final
word on the proposed solutions. Instead, the main contribution of this dissertation is to
provide potential solutions to key areas with the expectation that it would contribute to
discussions, design and standardization effort pursued by the community and thereby
help overcome the hurdles on ICN in order to make the vision of ICN a reality

Georg-August-University Göttingen

An Intelligent and Powerful Data Plane Support To Enhance Future Communication

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An Intelligent and Powerful Data Plane Support To Enhance Future Communication

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