IP over ICN - The better IP?

Trossen, Dirk; Reed, Martin J.; Riihijärvi, Janne; Georgiades, Michael; Fotiou, Nikos; Xylomenos, George

doi:10.1109/eucnc.2015.7194109

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“…To explain the underlying IP-over-ICN principle, the naïve signaling approach used is as described in [22]. ICN uses a namespace to facilitate communication, this namespace may be used to represent any form of information.…”

Section: A Naïve Icn Signaling Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This means that the NAP will be ready to receive any information being sent to the assigned IP address by determining the appropriate ICN name according to the defined namespace. Therefore, any IP packet being sent to an IP address allocated to an IP device will arrive at the NAP serving it as an ICN-compliant notification to a subscription to this IP address (represented as an appropriate ICN name) [22]. The IP namespace proposed includes a network prefix scope identifier that serves as a root identifier and represents the IP network prefix allocated to serve the subject network domain.…”

Section: Mobility Management In Ip-over-icnmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, clean-slate ICN architecture proposals such as PURSUIT have one significant drawback in that the network stack in every MN and server, together with application network interface code, have to be replaced. Therefore, IPover-ICN [22] has emerged as a solution that aims at enabling individual operators to enhance their services by deploying a gateway-based architecture; this offers improved IP-based services with an ICN infrastructure at its heart without incurring any changes to the end-user equipment that use existing IP protocol stacks and connectivity. The combination of the opportunities arising from the pathbased forwarding, with its direct path possibilities, and the backward compatibility of the IP-over-ICN solution poses the question: can this new form of delivery architecture improve the performance of IP mobility?…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Efficient mobility management techniques are critical in providing seamless connectivity and session continuity between a mobile node and the network during its movement. Current mobility management solutions generally require a central entity in the network core, tracking IP address movement and anchoring traffic from source to destination through point-to-point tunnels. Intuitively, this approach suffers from scalability limitations as it creates bottlenecks in the network, due to sub-optimal routing via the anchor point. Meanwhile, alternative anchorless, solutions are not feasible due to the current limitations of the IP semantics, which strongly ties addressing information to location. In contrast, novel path-based forwarding solutions may be exploited for feasible anchorless solutions. In this paper, we propose a novel network-based mobility management solution that facilitates IP mobility over such a path-based forwarding substrate. Our solution exploits the advantages of such substrates in decoupling path calculation from data transfer to eliminate the need for anchoring traffic through the network core; thereby, allowing flexible path calculation and service provisioning. Furthermore, by eliminating the limitation of routing via the anchor point, our approach reduces the network cost compared to anchored solution through bandwidth saving while maintaining comparable handover delay. We evaluate our solution through analytical and simulation models and compare it with the IETF standardized solution, Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6). Evaluation results illustrate a significant saving in the total network cost when using our proposed solution, compared to its counterpart.Index Terms-IP-over-ICN, Mobile IP, Proxy MIPv6, LTE, GPRS, Handover.

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Section: A Naïve Icn Signaling Approachmentioning

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Section: Mobility Management In Ip-over-icnmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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“…Focusing on backward compatibility, POINT [1] takes an alternative migration path that suggests the realization of legacy IP services on top of ICN and enabling the network operators to benefit from ICN core functions e.g., multicast and in-network caching. The envisioned strategy includes the deployment of gateways at the edges of IP networks, to map IP-based protocols to ICN semantics, whilst supporting ICN in the network core.…”

Section: Motivationmentioning

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OpenFlow-compliant topology management for SDN-enabled Information Centric Networks

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Xezonaki

2017

2017 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC)

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Abstract-Information-Centric Networking (ICN) has emerged as an interesting approach to overcome many of the limitations of legacy IP-based networks. However, the drastic changes to legacy infrastructure required to realise an ICN have significantly hindered its adoption by network operators. As a result, alternative deployment strategies are investigated, with SoftwareDefined Networking (SDN) arising as a solution compatible with legacy infrastructure, thus opening new possibilities for integrating ICN concepts in operators' networks. This paper discusses the seamless integration of these two architectural paradigms and suggests a scalable and dynamic network topology bootstrapping and management framework to deploy and operate ICN topologies over SDN-enabled operator networks. We describe the designed protocol and supporting mechanisms, as well as the minimum required implementation to realize this inter-operability. A proof-of-concept prototype has been implemented to validate the feasibility of the approach. Results show that topology bootstrapping time is not significantly affected by the topology size, substantially facilitating the intelligent management of an ICN-enabled network. I. MOTIVATIONInformation-centric networking (ICN) and software defined networking (SDN) have emerged to address the rapid increase in traffic demands and operational requirements of business applications. However, the majority of ICN propositions suggest replacing legacy network protocols and infrastructure with information-centric alternatives. This brings severe barriers to the adoption of the ICN paradigm, as network operators resist such costly and disruptive changes. On the other hand, SDN builds on backward compatibility, facilitating adoption by network and service providers, which have already started incorporating SDN capabilities into their networks. The emergence of SDN creates new opportunities for deploying the novel routing mechanisms brought by the ICN paradigm, bringing its adoption by Internet stakeholders closer to reality.Focusing on backward compatibility, POINT [1] takes an alternative migration path that suggests the realization of legacy IP services on top of ICN and enabling the network operators to benefit from ICN core functions e.g., multicast and in-network caching. The envisioned strategy includes the deployment of gateways at the edges of IP networks, to map IP-based protocols to ICN semantics, whilst supporting ICN in the network core. The network core design subsequently builds on SDN primitives to enable an IP/backwards-compatible architecture utilizing the PURSUIT [2] publish/subscribe communication paradigm. SDN switching [3] is employed for the support of a source-routing forwarding mechanism [4], enabling stateless, fast and scalable content forwarding. This allows the seamless deployment of ICN topologies over SDN networks and opens a potential migration path for ICN from Internet stakeholders.In this context, support for this transparent ICN operation heavily depends on the appropriate conf...

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“…The ICN core is invisible to the MN that communicates using the IPv4/IPv6 stack through a network attachment point (NAP) collocated at eNodeB. In this architecture, IP simply becomes a service enabled through the ICN core [11].…”

Section: Seamless Handover For Ip Over Icn Networkmentioning

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Seamless handover in IP over ICN networks: A coding approach

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2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)

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Abstract-Seamless connectivity plays a key role in realizing QoS-based delivery in mobile networks. However, current handover mechanisms hinder the ability to meet this target, due to the high ratio of handover failures, packet loss and service interruption. These challenges are further magnified in Heterogeneous Cellular Networks (HCN) such as Advanced Long Term Evolution (LTE-Advanced) and LTE in unlicensed spectrum (LTE-LAA), due to the variation in handover requirements. Although mechanisms, such as Fast Handover for Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PFMIPv6), attempt to tackle these issues; they come at a high cost with sub-optimal outcomes. This primarily stems from various limitations of existing IP core networks. In this paper we propose a novel handover solution for mobile networks, exploiting the advantages of a revolutionary IP over Information-Centric Networking (IP-over-ICN) architecture in supporting flexible service provisioning through anycast and multicast, combined with the advantages of random linear coding techniques in eliminating the need for retransmissions. Our solution allows coded traffic to be disseminated in a multicast fashion during handover phase from source directly to the destination(s), without the need for an intermediate anchor as in exiting solutions; thereby, overcoming packet loss and handover failures, while reducing overall delivery cost. We evaluate our approach with an analytical and simulation model showing significant cost reduction compared to PFMIPv6.

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IP over ICN - The better IP?

Cited by 44 publications

References 7 publications

Anchor Free IP Mobility

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OpenFlow-compliant topology management for SDN-enabled Information Centric Networks

Seamless handover in IP over ICN networks: A coding approach

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