NINQ: Name-Integrated Query Framework for Named-Data Networking of Things

Abstract

Information-Centric Networking (ICN) is a paradigm shift from host-to-host Internet Protocol (IP)-based communication to content-based communication. In ICN, the content-retrieval process employs names that are given through different naming schemes such as hierarchical, flat, attribute, and hybrid. Among different ICN architectures, Named-Data Networking (NDN) has gained much interest in the research community and is actively being explored for the Internet of Things (IoT) and sensor networks, and follows a hierarchical naming format. NDN protocol follows a pull-based communication model where the content consumer gets content irrespective of the location of the content provider. The content provider in NDN and sensor networks can be considered to be a distributed database that monitors or controls the environment and caches the sensed data or controls information into their memory. The proposed Name-INtegrated Query (NINQ) framework for NDN-based IoT provides a flexible, expressive, and secure query mechanism that supports content retrieval as well as control and configuration command exchange among various nodes in a smart building. Different use cases are presented in this paper that expand on the behavior of proposed query framework in different scenarios. Simulation results of data collection and exchange of control commands show that proposed query framework significantly improves Interest Satisfaction Rate (ISR), Command Satisfaction Rate (CSR), energy efficiency, and average delay. Moreover, it is evident from the simulation results that proposed query framework significantly reduces the number of transmissions in the network in both data collection and exchange of control command scenarios, which improves the network performance.

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“…In [90], the authors argue that the existing conventional hierarchical or hybrid NDN naming schema are inefficient to extract contents that are transient in nature and present instead a named-based query and command mechanism (NINQ) framework for ICN-based IoT. The authors of [54] present an adaptive content dissemination solution for VANET networks that includes hierarchical context-aware content naming schemes that enable both safety-critical and non-safety applications.…”

An Indoor Positioning and Navigation System Using Named Data Networking

“…NDN is getting is receiving much attention from researchers in the IoT field [10]- [12]. Being a data-centric network, NDN particularly favors low powered IoT devices.…”

Emerging Technologies for Future Sensor Networks—Selected Papers from ICGHIT 2019

“…Therefore, in such environments with dynamic topology changes and massive devices such as an IoT environment, ICN may enhance the performance of these networks. There are two papers presented in this special Issue: “Hierarchical Name-Based Mechanism for Push-Data Broadcast Control in Information-Centric Multihop Wireless Networks” [3], and “NINQ: Name-Integrated Query Framework for Named-Data Networking of Things” [4]. In [3], an ICN protocol for two application scenarios such as smart buildings and vehicular networks is proposed.…”

“…The proposed method controls the number of unnecessary data packets in the network which are proved by extensive simulations using an ndnSIM simulator. In [4], the paper proposes a flexible, expressive, and secure query mechanism that supports content retrieval as well as control and configuration command exchange among various nodes in a smart building. Through the Comparative studies, the proposed mechanism outperforms the most recent naming schemes in terms of Interest Satisfaction Rate (ISR), Command Satisfaction Rate (CSR), number of packets processed in the network, energy consumption, and average delay.…”