Biblio

We demonstrate 5G network slicing as a unique deployment opportunity for information centric networking (ICN), by using a generic service orchestration framework that operates on commodity compute, storage, and bandwidth resource pools to realize ICN service slices. In this demo, we specifically propose a service slice for the IoT Edge network. ICN has often been considered pertinent for IoT use due to its benefits like simpler stacks on resource constrained devices, in-network caching, and in-built data provenance. We use a lightweight ICN stack on IoT devices connected with sensors and actuators to build a network, where clients can set realistic policies using their legacy hand-held devices. We employ name based authentication protocols between the service end-points and IoT devices to allow secure onboarding. The IoT slice co-exists with other service slices that cater to different classes of applications (e.g., bandwidth intensive applications, such as video conferencing) allowing resource management flexibility. Our design creates orchestrated service Edge functions to which the clients connect, and these can in turn utilize in-network stateless functions to perform tasks, such as decision making and analytics using the available compute resources efficiently.

Recent studies shows that by the end of 2016 more than 60% of Internet traffic would be running on HTTPS. In presence of secure tunnels such as HTTPS, transparent caching solutions become in vain, as the application payload is encrypted by lower level security protocols. This paper addresses this issue and provides an alternate approach, for contents caching without compromising their security. There are three parts to our proposal. First, we propose two new IP layer primitives that allow routers to differentiate between IP and ICN flows. Second, we introduce DCAR (Dual-mode Content Aware Router), which is a traditional IP router enabled to understand the proposed IP primitives. Third, design of DISCS (DCAR based Information centric Secure Content Sharing) framework is proposed that leverages DCAR to allow content object caching along with security services that are comparable to HTTPS. Finally we share details on realizing such system.