An Intelligent and Powerful Data Plane Support To Enhance Future Communication
by Mayutan Arumaithurai
Date of Examination:2018-11-01
Date of issue:2018-07-06
Advisor:Prof. Dr. Xiaoming Fu
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Users are primarily interested in obtaining content and do not care much about where they obtain the Content from. But, the Internet as it is currently designed is very host-centric and places importance on the hosts establishing connection between them. Therefore, when a certain piece of data needs to be obtained, the Internet facilitates reliable connection between the two nodes, i.e., the node interested in the data and the node with the data. If an established connection is broken, e.g. due to mobility, the infrastructure primarily focuses on re-establishing the broken connection. Recent technologies and solutions such as Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), Peer-to-peer (P2P) and cloud try to shift the focus on the content. However, they have limitations in features they could support due to the underlying reliance on the host-centric TCP/IP. Information Centric Networking (ICN) is a new paradigm where the network provides users with named content, instead of communication channels between hosts. ICN treats content as the first-class entity, with nodes exchanging information based on the names of the content instead of the IP addresses of the end points requesting or providing the content. This shift from a ”location-based” network to a ”content-centric” network allows more efficient data dissemination, especially when the content may be available at multiple points, or the provider or consumer is mobile. A major assumption of many of the ICN solutions is the presence of a powerful data-plane that could be exploited to provide more functionality. This dissertation work started at a time when research on ICN was at an early stage and many key issues were still open. Key areas that this dissertation work addressed are: 1) the shortcomings of existing solutions to provide a full-fledged solution for efficient pub/sub communication in ICN; 2) incremental deployment strategy; 3) an efficient framework to support real-time applications such as gaming; 4) a congestion control protocol for multicast communication; 5) inability of the existing solutions to support a disaster; and 6) how ICN could be used in other application scenarios such as Network Management. This dissertation is influenced by and built on research contributions by other peers. Moreover it mainly comprises of peer-reviewed publications and therefore the solutions have been vetted by the community. However, this dissertation is by no means the final word on the proposed solutions. Instead, the main contribution of this dissertation is to provide potential solutions to key areas with the expectation that it would contribute to discussions, design and standardization effort pursued by the community and thereby help overcome the hurdles on ICN in order to make the vision of ICN a reality.
Keywords: ICN, Information centric Networking, COPSS, G-COPSS, COPSS, Content Oriented Networking