Survey on the Incorporation of NDN/CCN in IoT

Abstract

Named data networking (NDN) has emerged as a component of the Future Internet architecture to support scalable content distribution, mobility, security, and trust; as well as to provide access to information irrespective of its physical location. The NDN, and previously content-centric networking (CCN), has been considered as the enabler to address various Internet of Things (IoT) challenges, with the potential to outperform the current IP paradigm in many dimensions. The requirements and challenges of the IoT, imposed by constraints, such as limited memory and computational power, while requiring high energy efficiency in the face of unstable network connectivity, impose extra burdens on the IP paradigm. The named content, in-network caching and named-based routing approach in the CCN and NDN provide promising solutions to overcome these constraints and showcase alternative implementations. This paper aims to investigate and demonstrate the current incorporation of the NDN/CCN with the IoT in terms of innetwork caching management, naming scheme for devices and data, access control and policies, forwarding strategies, device configuration, and discovery. INDEX TERMS CCN, content-centric networking, ICN, information-centric networking, Internet of Things, named data networking, NDN.

An Information-Centric Semantic Data Collection Tree for Wireless Sensor Networks

“…Information-centric networking (ICN) [22][23][24][25] is considered a promising approach for Internet of Things [26][27][28]. Recently, a number of works have been investigated to explore the benefits of ICN for IoT [10,11,[29][30][31][32].…”

An Efficient Correlation-Based Cache Retrieval Scheme at the Edge for Internet of Things

“…According to previous studies, the edge architecture is an appropriate one for IoT where the edge node is deployed to serve as a middleware connecting applications with one or several WSNs. State-of-the-art studies [3,4] suggested that the edge node is one of the best options to serve as a caching node for IoT data.…”

“…We implement a prototype of CCR in Contiki CCN [35] on the top of ProbCache with LRU (Least-Recently-Used) [3,18] and LCD (Leave Copy Down) [4] with LRU. We then perform simulations using COOJA simulator [35] with an edge node and 1500 sensors of temperature, humidity, and accelerometer types.…”

“…In addition, ICN decouples the location of content repository and content publisher from request forwarding. The naming and decoupling features enable ICN to implement in-network caching [3][4][5][6][7][8] at routers for performance enhancement. The in-network caching brings a great benefit of ICN that content objects can be retrieved from any middleware based on the name.…”

“…However, studies have shown that the universal caching policy is inefficient because the caching storage capability of routers, especially in IoT, is normally limited [9][10][11][12][13]. Recently, a number of caching schemes have been proposed to improve the performance of ICN in-network caching and to adapt ICN caching schemes to IoT [2,4,[14][15][16][17][18].…”