Biblio

Congestion control is one of the essential keys to enhance network efficiency so that the network can perform well even in the case of packet drop. This problem is even more challenging in Information-Centric Networking (ICN), a typical Future Internet design, which employs the packet flooding policy for forwarding the information. To diminish the high traffic load due to the huge number of packets in the era of the Internet of Things (IoT), this paper proposes an effective caching and forwarding algorithm to diminish the congestion rate of the IoT wireless sensor in ICN. The proposed network system utilizes accumulative popularity-based delay transmission time for forwarding strategy and includes the consecutive chunks-based segment caching scheme. The evaluation results using ndnSIM, a widely-used ns-3 based ICN simulator, demonstrated that the proposed system can achieve less interest packet drop rate, more cache hit rate, and higher network throughput, compared to the relevant ICN-based benchmarks. These results prove that the proposed ICN design can achieve higher network efficiency with a lower congestion rate than that of the other related ICN systems using IoT sensors.

Currently, little attention has been carried out to address the feasibility of in-network caching in Information-Centric Networking (ICN) for the design and real-world deployment of future networks. Towards this line, in this paper, we propose a beneficial caching scheme in ICN by storing no more than a specific number of replicas for each content. Particularly, to realize an optimal content distribution for deploying caches in ICN, a content can be cached either partially or as a full-object corresponding to its request arrival rate and data traffic. Also, we employ a utility-based replacement in each content node to keep the most recent and popular content items in the ICN interconnections. The evaluation results show that the proposal improves the cache hit rate and cache diversity considerably, and acts as a beneficial caching approach for network and service providers in ICN. Specifically, the proposed caching mechanism is easy to deploy, robust, and relevant for the content-based providers by enabling them to offer users high Quality of Service (QoS) and gain benefits at the same time.