Complementing IoT Services Using Software-Defined Information Centric Networks: A Comprehensive Survey

Abstract

IoT connects a large number of physical objects with the Internet that capture and exchange real-time information for service provisioning. Traditional network management schemes face challenges to manage vast amounts of network traffic generated by IoT services. Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Information-Centric Networking (ICN) are two complementary technologies that could be integrated to solve the challenges of different aspects of IoT service provisioning. ICN offers a clean-slate design to accommodate continuously increasing network traffic by considering content as a network primitive. It provides a novel solution for information propagation and delivery for large-scale IoT services. On the other hand, SDN allocates overall network management responsibilities to the central controller, where network elements act merely as traffic forwarding components. An SDN-enabled network flexibly supports ICN without deploying ICN-capable hardware. Therefore, the integration of SDN and ICN provides benefits for large-scale IoT services. This paper provides a comprehensive survey on Software-Defined Information-Centric Internet of Things (SDIC-IoT) for IoT services provisioning. We present critical enabling technologies of SDIC-IoT, discuss its architecture, and elaborate its benefits for IoT services provisioning. We elaborate on key IoT service provisioning requirements and discuss how SDIC-IoT supports different aspects of IoT services. We develop different taxonomies of SDIC-IoT literature based on various performance parameters. Furthermore, an extensive discussion on different use cases, synergies, and advances is presented to envision the SDIC-IoT concept. Finally, we provide current challenges, causes, and future research directions of IoT services provisioning using SDIC-IoT.

Survey on the scheme evaluation, opportunities and challenges of software defined‐information centric network

“…The alternative deployment scheme not only makes full use of the advantages of SDN and ICN, but also alleviates the problems of traditional networks. Especially, this deployment scheme has been widely used in IoT, 5G, and Internet of vehicles (IoV) networks [14,15,46].…”

“…Although a large number of combination structures have been proposed to improve network performances [32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42], few authors systematically analyze and thoroughly summarize these studies. To the best of our knowledge, the studies [43][44][45][46][47] have made positive contributions to this field. However, the elaboration of the combination studies in these papers is still insufficient to provide researchers with tutorial suggestions and future directions.…”

“…However, a comprehensive evaluation and analysis of these approaches was not mentioned. In [46], the authors focused on the survey of integrating SDN and ICN with IoT services, different taxonomies of the related studies were discussed. However, the guidance provided in this paper was limited and only related to IoT scenarios, which limits researchers' overall understanding of SD-ICN.…”

Secure quantum computing for healthcare sector: A short analysis

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