TY - JOUR

T1 - Network-Coding Approach for Information-Centric Networking

AU - Bilal, Muhammad

AU - Kang, Shin Gak

N1 - Funding Information: Manuscript received September 23, 2017; revised May 13, 2018; accepted July 31, 2018. Date of publication August 30, 2018; date of current version May 31, 2019. This work was supported in part by research funds 2018, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, and in part by ICT R&D program of MSIP/ITTP 2016-0-00192, Standards development for service control and contents delivery for smart signage services. (Corresponding author: Muhammad Bilal.) M. Bilal is with the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Yongin-si 17035, South Korea (e-mail:,m.bilal@ieee.ac.kr). Publisher Copyright: © 2007-2012 IEEE.

PY - 2019/6

Y1 - 2019/6

N2 - The current internet architecture is inefficient in fulfilling the demands of newly emerging internet applications. To address this issue, several over-the-top application-level solutions have been employed, making the overall architecture very complex. Information-centric-networking (ICN) architecture has emerged as a promising alternative solution. The ICN architecture decouples the content from the host at the network level and supports the temporary storage of content in an in-network cache. Fundamentally, the ICN can be considered a multisource, multicast content-delivery solution. Because of the benefits of network coding in multicasting scenarios and proven benefits in distributed storage networks, the network coding is apt for the ICN architecture. In this study, we propose a solvable linear network-coding scheme for the ICN architecture. We also propose a practical implementation of the network-coding scheme for the ICN, particularly for the content-centric network (CCN) architecture, which is termed the coded CCN. The performance results show that the network-coding scheme improves the performance of the CCN and significantly reduces the network traffic and average download delay.

AB - The current internet architecture is inefficient in fulfilling the demands of newly emerging internet applications. To address this issue, several over-the-top application-level solutions have been employed, making the overall architecture very complex. Information-centric-networking (ICN) architecture has emerged as a promising alternative solution. The ICN architecture decouples the content from the host at the network level and supports the temporary storage of content in an in-network cache. Fundamentally, the ICN can be considered a multisource, multicast content-delivery solution. Because of the benefits of network coding in multicasting scenarios and proven benefits in distributed storage networks, the network coding is apt for the ICN architecture. In this study, we propose a solvable linear network-coding scheme for the ICN architecture. We also propose a practical implementation of the network-coding scheme for the ICN, particularly for the content-centric network (CCN) architecture, which is termed the coded CCN. The performance results show that the network-coding scheme improves the performance of the CCN and significantly reduces the network traffic and average download delay.

KW - Content delivery

KW - download delay

KW - in-network caching

KW - information-centric networking (ICN)

KW - multicast

KW - network coding

KW - network traffic

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U2 - 10.1109/JSYST.2018.2862913

DO - 10.1109/JSYST.2018.2862913

M3 - Journal article

AN - SCOPUS:85052643356

VL - 13

SP - 1376

EP - 1385

JO - IEEE Systems Journal

JF - IEEE Systems Journal

SN - 1932-8184

IS - 2

M1 - 8451876

ER -