Information Centric Networks - Design Issues, Principles and Approaches

Abstract

The proliferation of user-generated content available over the Internet and the growing need for disassociation of the content from its location has introduced a new aspect for the design of the Future Internet: the transition from a host-centric to an information-centric network paradigm. However, information-centric network is still a very young research area and, as such, there are a number of weaknesses in existing designs. This paper presents its main design issues and establishes some principles and approaches that could allow an easier and faster migration for the information-centric networking paradigm.