This project investigates a new internetworking paradigm called
Information-Centric Networking (ICN). ICN capitalizes on strengths -
and addresses weaknesses - of the Internet's current
host-based, point-to-point communication architecture in
order to naturally accommodate emerging patterns of
communication. By naming data instead of their location, ICN
transforms data into a first-class entity.
Currently, the most widely known implementations of the ICN paradigm are
Content-Centric Networking (CCN) and Named Data Netwoking (NDN).
While the current
Internet secures the data container (i.e., the communication channel), ICN secures the
contents itself. Thanks to this design choice, trust in data is decoupled from
trust in hosts, enabling several radically scalable
communication mechanisms such as automatic caching to
optimize bandwidth.
The project studies the technical
challenges that must be addressed to validate ICN as a
future Internet architecture: routing scalability, fast
forwarding, trust models, network security, content
protection and privacy, and fundamental communication
theory. The project uses end-to-end testbed deployments,
simulation, and theoretical analysis to evaluate the
proposed architecture, and is developing specifications and
prototype implementations of ICN protocols and
applications.
Support
NSF Award
#1040802 (2013)
CISCO University Research Award (2013)
CISCO University Research Award (2017)