A comparative study of content-centric and software defined networks in smart cities
Amna Fekih, Sonia Gaied, Habib Yousef · 2017
Currently, urban areas comprise more than fifty percent of the world's population and even the rest is thinking about migrating. Seen the remarkable occurrence of new technologies and the exponential increase in the number of ordinary users, mobile users using the current Internet architecture, which is not designed to support them, the use of these technologies must be revised and redefined the connectivity of these cities to create intelligent and scalable solutions. Then, to realize this vision, smart city initiatives need to be supported and integrated by an intelligent communication infrastructure, a role tailor-made for Software-Defined Networks. But, the current internet with all its limitations; each ip address couples both identification and location, security fails, mobility management. It will not be able to ensure a highly scalable efficient content distribution. All these challenges have pushed the definition of the ICN paradigm, which proposes new networking primitives for the future Internet.