information-centric networking: concepts for a future internet
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Information-centric networking: Concepts for a future Internet. David D. Clark, Karen Sollins MIT CFP November, 2012. Background. Both the NSF and the EC have funded a number of projects to look at architectures for a future Internet. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Information-centric networking:
Concepts for a future Internet
David D. Clark, Karen Sollins
MIT CFPNovember, 2012
Background
• Both the NSF and the EC have funded a number of projects to look at architectures for a future Internet.– What might the Internet of 15 years from now look
like?• Various of the proposals are motivated by
different visions of the future:– Mobility, cloud, etc.– Information-centric networks (ICN) is one such
theme.
The general idea
• Today, the Internet hooks computers together.– But computers are just a low-level platform for
higher level services and objects.– Why not design the network to connect to
services and objects, rather than machines?– Better align mechanism with application-level
goals.
Mechanically…
• In ICN designs, the network knows about these higher-level objects. – There are names for these objects that are
visible at the network layer.– These names can drive packet forwarding and
other network-level services.
The benefit?
• In general, the objective is more efficient delivery of content, in particular high-volume popular content. – Today, the network layer computes routes among
machines. – CDNs pick the source cache from which to deliver content. – These two mechanisms are not well coupled. – Can ICNs solve this problem?– When lots of people want the same content, can the
network help with efficient delivery?• (Specific proposals have other objectives.)
Very different approaches
• Explicit vs. implicit positioning of content.• Security model.• Privacy model.• Relation to CDNs and higher-level services.
Named data networking
• NDN:– Data is broken into packets, each of which have a
name.– To fetch data, send an interest packet, with the
name of the desired data packet. – Every router in the network can cache data
packets.– A strategy layer tries to forward the interest in a
useful direction toward the data.
Publish/subscribe for Internet
• PSIRP:– Producer of content picks a set of machines to
host the content. (A scope.)– Scopes are recursively named, and have explicit
addresses.– A subscribe (similar function to an interest) is
explicitly forwarded to the scope, which picks a source machine for the transfer.