Realizing IP-based Services over an Information-Centric Networking Transport Network

Information-centric networking (ICN) has been actively studied as a promising alternative to the IP-based Internet architecture with potential benefits in terms of network efficiency, privacy, security, and novel applications. However, it is difficult to adopt such wholesale replacement of the IP-based Internet to a new routing and service infrastructure due to the conflict among existing stakeholders, market players, and solution providers. To overcome these difficulties, we provide an evolutionary approach by which we enable the expected benefits of ICN for existing services. The demonstration shows that these benefits can be efficiently introduced and work with existing IP end-systems.