Advances in Research on Information-Centric Networking
Jun Li, Zhen Chen, Xi Shi · 2012
The current Internet architecture is based on packet switching between the end to end communication architecture. With the growing surge of multimedia traffic and other communication services, especially video traffic, this architecture comes under increasing challenges in delivering contents over the Internet due to the obstacles of its inherent structure, which results in low content distribution efficiency, long retrieval latency and poor user experience etc. Information-Centric Networking (ICN) comes into being and tries to rescue this situation in this context. ICN separates content with the place where it stored, and brings out a new hot wave in research for the future Internet architecture.