Current communication between devices and cloud infrastructure is based largely on IPv4 or IPv6. Information-Centric Networking (ICN) proposes to retrieve information from the ‘network’ based on named content instead of focussing on communication with a endpoints identified by addresses. ICN approaches such as Named-Data Networking (NDN) require consumers to express interests for individual chunks of data, requiring multiply interests to be issued to retrieve large objects.
This project will investigate the use of persistent interests and manifests that direct published content to interested consumers in order to reduce the network traffic to retrieve data in information-centric networks.