Information-centric networking (ICN) is a promising solution for content delivery in multi-hop wireless networks. In these environments, the ICN forwarding strategies typically rely on broadcasting, which facilitates content distribution by taking advantage of the shared medium, but brings about undesirable side effects. To avoid the broadcast-related issues of packet redundancy and unreliability due its unacknowledged mode, a few recent proposals advocated unicasting as the communication mode to resort to, once the content provider has been discovered. However, unicasting may suffer from connectivity breakages due to node mobility and harsh propagation conditions, and, generally, limits the data sharing capability of the wireless medium. In this paper, we design a robust ICN-based forwarding strategy, called Ad Hoc Dynamic Unicast (ADU), that wisely harnesses unicast and broadcast primitives on top of IEEE 802.11-based wireless networks. ADU relies on unicasting for content dissemination after the provider discovery, and promptly falls back to broadcast to find a new content provider in case of a link failure notified by the Medium Access Control (MAC) layer. Extensive simulations in two different multi-hop wireless scenarios, i.e., mobile and vehicular ad hoc networks, under different load settings, assess the ADU performance against benchmark ICN forwarding schemes, representative of broadcast-based and unicast-based solutions. Results show that ADU outperforms them in all circumstances, proving its better responsiveness to link failures, which guarantees a shorter content retrieval delay and a lower message overhead and energy consumption.

A Novel Hybrid Forwarding Strategy for Content Delivery in Wireless Information-Centric Networks

M. Amadeo;Campolo C
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A. Molinaro
2017-01-01

Abstract

Information-centric networking (ICN) is a promising solution for content delivery in multi-hop wireless networks. In these environments, the ICN forwarding strategies typically rely on broadcasting, which facilitates content distribution by taking advantage of the shared medium, but brings about undesirable side effects. To avoid the broadcast-related issues of packet redundancy and unreliability due its unacknowledged mode, a few recent proposals advocated unicasting as the communication mode to resort to, once the content provider has been discovered. However, unicasting may suffer from connectivity breakages due to node mobility and harsh propagation conditions, and, generally, limits the data sharing capability of the wireless medium. In this paper, we design a robust ICN-based forwarding strategy, called Ad Hoc Dynamic Unicast (ADU), that wisely harnesses unicast and broadcast primitives on top of IEEE 802.11-based wireless networks. ADU relies on unicasting for content dissemination after the provider discovery, and promptly falls back to broadcast to find a new content provider in case of a link failure notified by the Medium Access Control (MAC) layer. Extensive simulations in two different multi-hop wireless scenarios, i.e., mobile and vehicular ad hoc networks, under different load settings, assess the ADU performance against benchmark ICN forwarding schemes, representative of broadcast-based and unicast-based solutions. Results show that ADU outperforms them in all circumstances, proving its better responsiveness to link failures, which guarantees a shorter content retrieval delay and a lower message overhead and energy consumption.
2017
Information-centric networking
Wireless ad hoc networks
Forwading
Broadcasting
Unicasting
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