Abstract
The architectural semantics of Information-Centric Networking bring in interesting features in regards to mobility management: Information-Centric Networking is content-oriented, connection-less, and receiver-driven. Despite such intrinsic advantages, the support for node movement is being based on the principles of IP solutions. IP-based solutions are, however, host-oriented, and Information-Centric Networking paradigms are information-oriented. By following IP mobility management principles, some of the natural mobility support advantages of Information-Centric Networking are not being adequately explored. This paper contributes with an overview on how Information-Centric Networking paradigms handle mobility management as of today, highlighting current challenges and proposing a set of design guidelines to overcome them, thus steering a vision towards a content-centric mobility management approach.
Highlights
Internet traffic is consumed and produced by heterogeneous sets of mobile, resource-constrained end-user devices which are interconnected via fixed or wireless/cellular infrastructures
Mobility management plays a key part in this evolutionary step of the Internet, and IP-based mobility solutions have been evolving towards the support of network decentralisation, to be able to cope with high topological variability, among other issues
Information-Centric Networking (ICN) does not require the functional concept of a Mobility Anchor point (MAP) to support mobility, as binding is directly performed to content and not to hosts, as shall be explained
Summary
Internet traffic is consumed and produced by heterogeneous sets of mobile, resource-constrained end-user devices which are interconnected via fixed or wireless/cellular infrastructures. Being based on the principles of IP networks only, current mobility management solutions face limitations such as the lack of integrated security; the need for an end-to-end path between consumers and producers; and being focused on host reachability, instead of on data reachability. It provides a set of architectural guidelines aiming at providing a content-centric approach to mobility management and yet, assisting interoperability needs (Sections 5 and 6). Guidelines towards a content-centric mobility management solution are provided in Section 5, being the paper concluded in Section 6, where future directions for research on this topic are provided
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